Mentor Certification for School Teachers. A University of Life (UOL) initiative to Empower Teachers in India.
At University of Life we thought of creating a powerful training initiative to help School Teachers in India: Enhance their Personality, Teaching technique, Personal Effectiveness, and Inter-personal Skills for 21st century class-room teaching. This led to the creation of ‘M CERTIFIED’ - Mentor Certification for Indian School Teachers
Why this program?
Two strong observations forced us to think of creating a course for the empowerment and modernization of teachers in India. These are:
1. It is a new class-room every day – in this fast changing world. The learning needs, behaviors, attention spans, mindsets, pressures – of the 21st C learners, are changing very quickly too. The new age child is much more demanding, much more sensitive and much more exposed. Today children in India are exhibiting habits and behavior patterns that were completely unheard of a decade ago.
2. We know zillion times more about the human brain and mind than we ever knew. Breakthrough discoveries in the fields of Neuro-science, Neuro-linguistics, human psychology, educational psychology and teaching pedagogy has revolutionized the modern classroom. We observed that this research has not yet benefitted the otherwise dedicated and hard-working Indian teacher.
These two observations led to the creation of our Teacher Empowerment Workshops. The broader objective that we intend to achieve through these workshops is:
“To involve teachers in India in a continuous personal growth programme that helps them: understand the mind-set, emotional patterns and behaviors of new age learners; and to increase their personal effectiveness and impact by utilizing the breakthrough researches from the fields of communication skills and human psychology.”
Benefits of Teachers Empowerment Programme
Teacher Empowerment Workshops are extremely powerful and are there to relieve you of many efficiency, effectiveness, behavior, and class-room management problems forever.
Top twenty problems that your teachers will be able to manage or solve easily are:
1. Students come late to class.
2. Students don’t think critically.
3. Students lack interest or motivation.
4. Students don’t seek help when needed.
5. Students behave rudely in class.
6. Students don’t participate in discussion.
7. Students can’t apply what they’ve learned.
8. Students don’t come to the class.
9. Students don’t keep up with the reading.
10. Students respond to course content and classroom dynamics in emotional and unproductive ways.
11. Students’ background knowledge & skills vary widely.
12. Students don’t know how to do research.
13. Students can’t work in groups.
14. Students can’t write.
15. A student dominates my class.
16. A student’s behavior makes others uncomfortable.
17. Students cheat on assignments and exams.
18. Students complain the exams are too hard.
19. Students complain about grades.
20. Students performed poorly on an exam.
Our Teacher Empowerment Programme benefits tremendously: teachers, learners, school management and the school image. Here is an overview of twenty four key benefits in four important areas, which you can expect:
Six powerful benefits to the personality of teachers:
1. This programme will supercharge the self-esteem and motivation of teachers.
2. Teachers will enjoy greater management of their own personal frame of mind and emotional states.
3. They will experience reduced stress levels and greater job satisfaction.
4. Respond resourcefully and will have increased behavioral choices under stress.
5. This programme will have a natural harmonizing impact on the personal lives of the teachers.
6. They will look smarter, sound more convincing and come across as exciting and entertaining.
Seven Direct Benefits to Student-Teacher interactions:
1. Less use of stick, fear and physical punishment.
2. Enhanced students’ self-esteem – and therefore their desire to learn.
3. Decreased resistance to positive change.
4. Smoother relationships all through the year.
5. Motivated and excited class.
6. Easy relating with all the students.
Seven Super Benefits to ‘The Teaching Technique’:
1. Freshness in lesson structures.
2. Increased power in delivery.
3. Improved feedback mechanism.
4. Goal oriented engagement of the students.
5. Accurate need assessment.
6. Increased flexibility in using voice, body-language, and group dynamics.
7. More creative, imaginative and stimulating teaching inputs.
Four Benefits to the school brand and environment:
1. School becomes a leader in introducing teaching latest teaching methodologies.
2. Enhanced loyalty and improved teacher-school bonding.
3. Teacher-to-teacher interaction becomes more positive and increases overall productivity.
4. Better teacher-parent relationships.
Teacher Empowerment Workshop Programme Course Content:
A school is like a child – every single one is unique and special. This core belief makes every training programme at university of life dynamic and naturally powerful. Our research team sits back, brain-storms and restructures syllabus to target your specific needs and expectations. However, we stick to an outline that forms the syllabus of our Teacher Empowerment Workshop Programme. Here is a brief overview of what you can expect us to cover in these workshops.
Module 1
Sets a context and maps out main ideas of teaching in 21st C: how we get from our present competence and skills to where we want to go, easy problem solving, quick behavior modification, better results, positive relationships with parents and students, better school image, efficient and effective teaching, loyalty, sense of belonging to the school and how each teacher builds unique ways of creating excellence.
Module 2
We explore the seven principles of effective learning and six principles of effective teaching their application in the classroom. These are well researched principles that can form the foundation of a modern teacher.
Module 3
This module deals with effective course design. Teachers learn about the eight keys areas while designing the course at the beginning of a session. They discover how careful planning at the course design stage makes teaching easier and more enjoyable and also facilitates student learning.
Module 4
This module deals with the process of assessment and feedback. They learn about different types of assessment and various assessment tools that a teacher can create easily in the classroom. They also discover four important dimensions to assessment. It also briefly covers how to make an effective assignment and an exam.
Module 5
It deals with how students use their senses internally to think, how language relates to thought, and how you can tell the way in which other people are thinking. It also deals with different types of learners.
Module 6
Deals with our states of mind, how learning states can be evoked, and how to make students gain access to their resourceful states of learning and positive behaviors at will.
Module 7
This is about thinking. Different forms and categories of knowledge and thinking and how awareness of these can be used to increase the IQ of students. It also deals with how environment, behavior, capability, beliefs and identity fit together for personal resource optimization.
Module 8
How language sets limits on our experience and how we can go beyond those limits. The art of asking key questions that clarifies what students think, feel, believe, say and understand.
Module 9
This module helps teachers understand ways and processes that can make learners unlock the vast reservoir of intelligence lying dormant within. It also deals with few teaching devices that can revolutionize the effectiveness of the teaching process.
Module 10
In this module we explore patterns, erratic behaviors, alignment, values, and flexibility in the classroom context. It also covers the techniques to manage classroom more effectively by reaching agreements with the learners in conflict situations quickly and easily.
Module 11
This module deals with the super three classical, classified, and powerful techniques for changing student behaviors and habits.
Module 12
It is a very strong module for teachers weak in spoken English. It is a signature workshop of University of Life called – SPEED ENGLISH. It removes hesitation, nervousness, shyness, language fear, local speaking style from the teachers to a great extent and puts them on the fast track to speaking effective, fluent, polished, correct English with confidence in an impressive way.
Module 13
In this module teachers explore the anatomy, physiology, management and eradication of distress from their lives and class-rooms. They play with energizers, relaxation techniques, physical yoga and meditation to discover what works the best for them.
Module 14
This is a special module that sharp focuses on the presentation skills of teachers. It trains the teachers in mechanics of communication, and the nuances of content selection, content structure and delivery. It is a must for every teacher.
How we do it – Methodology!
For high impact, quick results, and everlasting learning we use an experiential and entertainment oriented exciting training pedagogy. We use eleven powerful teaching techniques and methods in different permutations and combinations:
1. Hands on practice
2. Role Plays
3. Brainstorming
4. Theatre
5. Ice breakers
6. Energizers
7. Mind training
8. NLP
9. Case studies
10. Meditation
11. E-learning
Teachers naturally become adept and adroit and effortlessly integrate these tools in their everyday teaching.
Implementation:
Although you have full freedom to choose any module that you would like us to train your teachers at yet we very strongly recommend you to consider a pre-training-assessment workshop. The purpose of this workshop is to identify the specific training needs of your teachers and the problems that they like us to address. This helps us to laser focus on the key improvement areas and makes our programme super beneficial. Please go through the comparison table and select the right model that suits your needs.
If you would like us to tailor a special package to meet your specific requirements, please feel free to share it with us. We would try our best to design a programme exactly that you want.
At University of Life we thought of creating a powerful training initiative to help School Teachers in India: Enhance their Personality, Teaching technique, Personal Effectiveness, and Inter-personal Skills for 21st century class-room teaching. This led to the creation of ‘M CERTIFIED’ - Mentor Certification for Indian School Teachers
Why this program?
Two strong observations forced us to think of creating a course for the empowerment and modernization of teachers in India. These are:
1. It is a new class-room every day – in this fast changing world. The learning needs, behaviors, attention spans, mindsets, pressures – of the 21st C learners, are changing very quickly too. The new age child is much more demanding, much more sensitive and much more exposed. Today children in India are exhibiting habits and behavior patterns that were completely unheard of a decade ago.
2. We know zillion times more about the human brain and mind than we ever knew. Breakthrough discoveries in the fields of Neuro-science, Neuro-linguistics, human psychology, educational psychology and teaching pedagogy has revolutionized the modern classroom. We observed that this research has not yet benefitted the otherwise dedicated and hard-working Indian teacher.
These two observations led to the creation of our Teacher Empowerment Workshops. The broader objective that we intend to achieve through these workshops is:
“To involve teachers in India in a continuous personal growth programme that helps them: understand the mind-set, emotional patterns and behaviors of new age learners; and to increase their personal effectiveness and impact by utilizing the breakthrough researches from the fields of communication skills and human psychology.”
Benefits of Teachers Empowerment Programme
Teacher Empowerment Workshops are extremely powerful and are there to relieve you of many efficiency, effectiveness, behavior, and class-room management problems forever.
Top twenty problems that your teachers will be able to manage or solve easily are:
1. Students come late to class.
2. Students don’t think critically.
3. Students lack interest or motivation.
4. Students don’t seek help when needed.
5. Students behave rudely in class.
6. Students don’t participate in discussion.
7. Students can’t apply what they’ve learned.
8. Students don’t come to the class.
9. Students don’t keep up with the reading.
10. Students respond to course content and classroom dynamics in emotional and unproductive ways.
11. Students’ background knowledge & skills vary widely.
12. Students don’t know how to do research.
13. Students can’t work in groups.
14. Students can’t write.
15. A student dominates my class.
16. A student’s behavior makes others uncomfortable.
17. Students cheat on assignments and exams.
18. Students complain the exams are too hard.
19. Students complain about grades.
20. Students performed poorly on an exam.
Our Teacher Empowerment Programme benefits tremendously: teachers, learners, school management and the school image. Here is an overview of twenty four key benefits in four important areas, which you can expect:
Six powerful benefits to the personality of teachers:
1. This programme will supercharge the self-esteem and motivation of teachers.
2. Teachers will enjoy greater management of their own personal frame of mind and emotional states.
3. They will experience reduced stress levels and greater job satisfaction.
4. Respond resourcefully and will have increased behavioral choices under stress.
5. This programme will have a natural harmonizing impact on the personal lives of the teachers.
6. They will look smarter, sound more convincing and come across as exciting and entertaining.
Seven Direct Benefits to Student-Teacher interactions:
1. Less use of stick, fear and physical punishment.
2. Enhanced students’ self-esteem – and therefore their desire to learn.
3. Decreased resistance to positive change.
4. Smoother relationships all through the year.
5. Motivated and excited class.
6. Easy relating with all the students.
Seven Super Benefits to ‘The Teaching Technique’:
1. Freshness in lesson structures.
2. Increased power in delivery.
3. Improved feedback mechanism.
4. Goal oriented engagement of the students.
5. Accurate need assessment.
6. Increased flexibility in using voice, body-language, and group dynamics.
7. More creative, imaginative and stimulating teaching inputs.
Four Benefits to the school brand and environment:
1. School becomes a leader in introducing teaching latest teaching methodologies.
2. Enhanced loyalty and improved teacher-school bonding.
3. Teacher-to-teacher interaction becomes more positive and increases overall productivity.
4. Better teacher-parent relationships.
Teacher Empowerment Workshop Programme Course Content:
A school is like a child – every single one is unique and special. This core belief makes every training programme at university of life dynamic and naturally powerful. Our research team sits back, brain-storms and restructures syllabus to target your specific needs and expectations. However, we stick to an outline that forms the syllabus of our Teacher Empowerment Workshop Programme. Here is a brief overview of what you can expect us to cover in these workshops.
Module 1
Sets a context and maps out main ideas of teaching in 21st C: how we get from our present competence and skills to where we want to go, easy problem solving, quick behavior modification, better results, positive relationships with parents and students, better school image, efficient and effective teaching, loyalty, sense of belonging to the school and how each teacher builds unique ways of creating excellence.
Module 2
We explore the seven principles of effective learning and six principles of effective teaching their application in the classroom. These are well researched principles that can form the foundation of a modern teacher.
Module 3
This module deals with effective course design. Teachers learn about the eight keys areas while designing the course at the beginning of a session. They discover how careful planning at the course design stage makes teaching easier and more enjoyable and also facilitates student learning.
Module 4
This module deals with the process of assessment and feedback. They learn about different types of assessment and various assessment tools that a teacher can create easily in the classroom. They also discover four important dimensions to assessment. It also briefly covers how to make an effective assignment and an exam.
Module 5
It deals with how students use their senses internally to think, how language relates to thought, and how you can tell the way in which other people are thinking. It also deals with different types of learners.
Module 6
Deals with our states of mind, how learning states can be evoked, and how to make students gain access to their resourceful states of learning and positive behaviors at will.
Module 7
This is about thinking. Different forms and categories of knowledge and thinking and how awareness of these can be used to increase the IQ of students. It also deals with how environment, behavior, capability, beliefs and identity fit together for personal resource optimization.
Module 8
How language sets limits on our experience and how we can go beyond those limits. The art of asking key questions that clarifies what students think, feel, believe, say and understand.
Module 9
This module helps teachers understand ways and processes that can make learners unlock the vast reservoir of intelligence lying dormant within. It also deals with few teaching devices that can revolutionize the effectiveness of the teaching process.
Module 10
In this module we explore patterns, erratic behaviors, alignment, values, and flexibility in the classroom context. It also covers the techniques to manage classroom more effectively by reaching agreements with the learners in conflict situations quickly and easily.
Module 11
This module deals with the super three classical, classified, and powerful techniques for changing student behaviors and habits.
Module 12
It is a very strong module for teachers weak in spoken English. It is a signature workshop of University of Life called – SPEED ENGLISH. It removes hesitation, nervousness, shyness, language fear, local speaking style from the teachers to a great extent and puts them on the fast track to speaking effective, fluent, polished, correct English with confidence in an impressive way.
Module 13
In this module teachers explore the anatomy, physiology, management and eradication of distress from their lives and class-rooms. They play with energizers, relaxation techniques, physical yoga and meditation to discover what works the best for them.
Module 14
This is a special module that sharp focuses on the presentation skills of teachers. It trains the teachers in mechanics of communication, and the nuances of content selection, content structure and delivery. It is a must for every teacher.
How we do it – Methodology!
For high impact, quick results, and everlasting learning we use an experiential and entertainment oriented exciting training pedagogy. We use eleven powerful teaching techniques and methods in different permutations and combinations:
1. Hands on practice
2. Role Plays
3. Brainstorming
4. Theatre
5. Ice breakers
6. Energizers
7. Mind training
8. NLP
9. Case studies
10. Meditation
11. E-learning
Teachers naturally become adept and adroit and effortlessly integrate these tools in their everyday teaching.
Implementation:
Although you have full freedom to choose any module that you would like us to train your teachers at yet we very strongly recommend you to consider a pre-training-assessment workshop. The purpose of this workshop is to identify the specific training needs of your teachers and the problems that they like us to address. This helps us to laser focus on the key improvement areas and makes our programme super beneficial. Please go through the comparison table and select the right model that suits your needs.
If you would like us to tailor a special package to meet your specific requirements, please feel free to share it with us. We would try our best to design a programme exactly that you want.