AYURGYAN NYAS

A REPORT

Review Workshop/ Development of

Pedagogical Methodologies

VENUE: SLS-DAV PUBLIC SCHOOL – MAUSAM VIHAR-DELHI

DATE: 19th -20th, SEPTEMBER, 2016

Session I: Ms. Deepti Gulati

The workshop started with the welcome address of the participants by Ms. Deepti Gulati,Genral Secretary AyurGyan Nyas through the Skype call. During this address Ms. Deepti Gulati welcomed the participants and thanked them for the continued support and commitment towards shaping the various sections of the Facilitators’ Manual. Ms. Gulati appreciated the output of the previous workshop and called it a great success. The materials developed by the teachers has been incorporated in the Manual.

Ms. Gulati continued that Ethics should be an integral part of any curriculum and AyurGyan Nyas is striving hard to fulfill the dream of HH Dalai Lama who in his two books “Ethics of the New Millennium and “Beyond Religion” gives an insight of how best virtues can be imbibed in our lives to make it more happy and peaceful. In the educational system we must know what to teach the children. Ethics should be part of the school curriculum and relationship between mind and emotions should come in the domain of education and not be limited to spirituality. The children should be taught the Ethics of Restraint by first understanding the emotions and then apply restraint in dealing with their negative emotions.

The belief that any one’s intrinsic nature cannot be changed has been negated by scientists who have proved time and again that it can be changed through changing ones habits and dispositions. Negative emotions like anger, envy or jealousy can be overcome by Virtues such as peace, Truth, patience etc. She mentioned about ‘SOPA’- which means active forbearance & patience - we all must cultivate the nature of acceptance, generosity and humbleness, and teachers must relate and imbibe all this in their write ups, like poems, stories and case

studies. She also asked participants to include Friendship as a virtue in the curriculum as this has been told specifically by HH Dalai Lama to be included as an important virtue.

A conference call with Ms. Anshu Sahi was set up where Ms. Sahi commented that the ‘Poems’ created during the 1st Workshop are very meaningful. She emphasized that ‘Care’ and friendship in Virtue should be added in the section “Ethics of Virtue”.

Session II : Ms. Piyali Acharya

The next session was on ‘Ice breaking’ by Ms. Piyali Through the technique of Appreciative Enquiry, the participants got to know each other by asking questions positively. The participants actively participated in the discussion and shared their concerns about the ethical conduct of

students and parents prevailing in the education system today. During the discussion, following concepts were introduced and discussed. She pointed out that we often neglect our inner emotions, by nurturing virtuous emotions within us.

Session III: Dr. Sudhir Kapoor

The next session set the tone for the workshop. Dr. Kapoor focused on ‘Gratitude’ and ‘Care’, how these two things may be implemented and felt within.

‘Care the care giver’ this was the opening point of Dr. Kapoor. How do teachers feel that they are being cared? Suggestions are to be drawn towards ‘care’ and to the teachers (the care givers). The mind should be prepared to receive/ adopt the ‘care’- looking after and caring are both different. He then talked about the Brain and the Mind. How does care create an effect on these two with some little gesture is shown that they care. He

mentioned that to practice Restraint and Virtue into creating a caring classroom.

Session IV: Asheema Singh

Ms. Asheema Singh started the session by reviewing the outputs of the previous workshop. She gave examples of how the cases and stories that were developed in the first workshop can be made open ended so that the facilitators and participants do not arrive directly to a conclusion by reading the stories/ cases etc.

Ms. Singh initiated the session through an interesting session. Each of the team members were asked to close their eyes and count numbers. Initially it was difficult for the team to synchronise, however in due course the team could get into the rhythm.

The participants were asked to articulate the different kinds of methodologies/ training materials that may be appropriate for the manual. And these were following points they have shortlisted like Story,

Poems, Situations, Slogan making, Captions, Games. Ms. Singh conducted a Buzz Session on adolescence. The participants came up with the following associated words: Teenage, Tantrums, Chinese whisper, Turbulence, Transform.

Ms. Asheema encouraged all the participants to develop activities on Ethics of Virtue that can be conducted in their classrooms.

In the post lunch session, Objectives of the

Workshop, Team formation for developing

the pedagogical methodologies and review

of developed modules was initiated. The

participants were divided into six teams

and the following tasks were assigned to

them.

Team 1: COMPASSION & CONTENTMENT

Team 2: COURAGE/ FORTITUDE/ FORBEREANCE & FORGIVENESS

Team 3: GENEROSITY, GRATITUDE & ENDEREMENT

Team 4: HUMILITY & REJOICE/ JOYFULNESS

Team 5: KINDNESS & LOVE

Presentations of the developed methodologies were made by respective Teams. Suggestions and

inputs by experts and other participants were shared for improvement and finalization of the

materials developed.

DAY 2:

The day started with a Recap of day 1. In this activity the participants reflected and shared their opinion

about the previous day’s deliberations.

The participants were oriented about Ethics of Virtue by a power point presentation by Ms. Piyali

Acharya.

Based on the presentation the following points were discussed:

1. Cultivating ethics of virtue, recognize positive qualities & creating caring classroom

2. Objectives:-

Examples of positive qualities

Virtues in mental, physical and verbal

Impact of virtuous actions

Practice ethics of virtues

Innate or acquired behavior of a person

3. What is quality?

4. What is virtuous quality?

The participants continued their Team work that was assigned to them. They were requested to

develop pedagogical methodologies on Ethics of Virtue in addition to the task assigned on Day 1.

TEAM 1: Review of Sections 1 & 2 (Ethics of Virtue).

TEAM 2, 3 & 4: Development of various methodologies like poems, case studies, situation, games and

other activities on Ethics of Virtue.

CONCLUDING SESSION

In the concluding session, presentation and recommendations were made by respective TEAMs.

TEAM 1: The review team handed over the reviewed materials and recommendations on draft modules

1 & first 2 session of module 2.

TEAM 2, 3 & 4 presented the final draft of the developed methodologies and submitted to the AGN

team. The detailed methodologies which were received from the participants are enclosed at Annexure

1.

Forms were provided to the participants to receive their feedback on the two day workshop.

Comments, suggestions and views were received and analysed. The analysis of the feedback

is in following table:

QUESTIONS FREQUENCY RESPONSES

Q1 Which aspects of the workshop did you find most interesting or useful?

Ice breaking, sharing situations while writing the content, interactive sessions, TEAM work, interesting manner in explaining the basic concepts, developing activity based modules and review.

Q2 Did the workshop achieve the objectives? ALL PARTICIPANTS Yes

Q3 Knowledge and information gained from participating in this workshop?

ALL

PARTICIPANTS Yes mostly

Q4

Would you like to be associated with this program in future?

ALL

PARTICIPANTS Yes definitely

Q5 How do you think the workshop could have been made more effective?

Audio visual clippings, recording of the role plays, providing some materials to the participants, proper delegation of tasks, better time management, and more time to discuss the outputs expected, more information ,more insights on different ethics, in manual, more ice breakers, PPT to be more attractive.

Q6 Please comment on the organization of the workshop.

ALL PARTICIPANTS Same TEAM of teachers and experts should continue

Q7 What is your overall assessment of the workshop?

ALL PARTICIPANTS Good work, prolonged fruitful association with AyurGyan Nyas

Q8 Comments and suggestions

Excellent endeavor, more schools should be covered for this program; duration of the workshops should be longer and should be held frequently for better impact. Session on brain and mind would be better in future by Piyali Ma’am.

In addition to the above feedback, participants also shared their feelings, views and opinions

about the workshop which were motivating and encouraging.

The workshop concluded with the vote of thanks from each and every participating member.

The Principal of the school, Mrs. Vandana Kapoor assured prolonged fruitful association of

AGN team and mentioned the following points:

* Generating a module for mindfulness training and focusing on value based strategy to develop activity based modules.

* It gave an overall understanding of the concepts of mindfulness, consciousness among the team since it is the call of the day.

* She assured to extend all possible help and cooperate for the next program and workshop. She also appreciated this initiative about Ethics which is very relevant in the existing education system.

Experts/ Resource persons:

o Ms. Deepti Gulati

o Ms. Asheema Singh

o Sudhir Kapoor

o Piyali Acharya

ATTENDANCE SHEET

Review Workshop/ Development of Pedagogical Methodologies Venue: SLS-DAV Public School, Date: 19th & 20th September, 2016 Mausam Vihar, New Delhi

Sl. No. NAME Contact Numbers & EMAIL IDs SCHOOL

1 Ms. Poornima Sharma purnima2210@rediffmail.com SLS DAV PUBLIC SCHOOL

2 Ms. Urvashi Rai urvashi2604@gmail.com SLS DAV PUBLIC SCHOOL

3 Ms. Robin Gupta gupta.robin1@gmail.com SLS DAV PUBLIC SCHOOL

4 Ms. Rachana Kashyap rachi1970@rediffmail.com SLS DAV PUBLIC SCHOOL

5 Ms. Mamta Sahani mamtasahni47@yahoo.com SLS DAV PUBLIC SCHOOL

6 Ms. Jyoti Bery jyoti_bery@yahoo.co.in SLS DAV PUBLIC SCHOOL

7 Ms. Mili Kumar milikumar71@gmail.com SLS DAV PUBLIC SCHOOL

8 Mrs. Vandana Kapoor Vandana.kapoor57@gmail.com slsdavps@yahoo.com

SLS DAV PUBLIC SCHOOL

9 Savita Yadav Gargisavita12@gmail.com SLS DAV PUBLIC SCHOOL

10 Geeta Kalra Geetakalra974@gmail.com SLS DAV PUBLIC SCHOOL

11 Divya Jyoti Divya.jyoti.dd@gmail.com SLS DAV PUBLIC SCHOOL

12 Vishakha Vimal Rawat Vishakha_rawat@yahoo.in SLS DAV PUBLIC SCHOOL

13 Ms. Premlata Malik premlata.mullick@gmail.com MEERUT

14 Ms. Ashu Arora principalmeerut@gmail.com DAV MEERUT

15 Ms. Leena Kapoor Bhatia leenakapoorbhatia@gmail.com MEERUT

16 Sangeeta Jain Sangeeta449@gmail.com MEERUT, DAV

17 Reema Aahi Reemaaahi2@gmail.com MEERUT, DAV

18 Mrs. Meenu Singhal rishabsinghal1112@gmail.com GHAZIABAD

19 Mrs. Rekha Mathur rekhamathur40@gmail.com GHAZIABAD

20 Leena Taneja leenataneja@rocketmail.com GHAZIABAD

21 Dr. Sushma sushmadonarey@gmail.com GHAZIABAD

22 Sagarika Dasgupta sagarlakshmidg@gmail.com AGN

23 Ms. Piyali Acharya piyaliacharya@gmail.com AGN

24 Ms. Asheema Singh asheema.singh@gmail.com AGN

25 Mr. Sudhir Kapoor sudhir.scert@yahoo.co.in AGN

SLS DAV 12 PARTICIPANTS

GHAZIABAD 4 PARTICIPANTS MEERUT 5 PARTICIPANTS

AGN TEAM 4 TOT

AYURGYAN NYAS

SCHEDULE

Review Workshop/ Development of Pedagogical Methodologies

VENUE: SLS-DAV PUBLIC SCHOOL, MAUSAM VIHAR, NEW DELHI DATE: 19th -20th, SEPTEMBER, 2016

DAY 1 ACTIVITY METHODOLOGY RESOURCE PERSON

SESSION 1:

10:00 AM

TO

1:00 PM

Registration

Welcome

Appreciative Enquiry

Perspective building on Secular Ethics in

education

Concept of secular ethics

Relevance of Ethics of Virtue in daily life

Filling of registration form Ice breaking SKYPE/Video Conferencing Discussion Power Point Presentation

AGN team Mrs.Deepti Gulati, General Secretary Piyali Acharya Professor Geshe Ngawang Samten Prof.SudhirKapoor Sagarika Dasgupta

Overview of the workshop

Objectives of the workshop

TEAM Formation (5 TEAMs)

Assigning TEAM work

LUNCH BREAK: 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM

SESSION 2: 2:00PM to 4:30PM 4:30PM to 5:30PM

Review draft modules (Modules 1, 2 &

3)

Module 2: Ethics of Restraint

Module 3: Ethics of Virtue

Development of Pedagogical

Methodologies on Ethics of Virtue

Presentation of the reviewed sections of

the modules1, 2 & 3.

Presentation of methodologies developed

TEAM work and discussion TEAM work and discussion Presentations by the TEAMs Presentations by the TEAMs

Mrs. Asheema Singh & AGN Team Mrs. Asheema Singh& AGN Team

DAY 2 SESSION 3: 10.00 AM to 1.00PM

Recap of Day 1

TEAM work for review of modules

TEAM work and discussion

Experts &AGN team

continued

Development of Pedagogical

Methodologies continued on Ethics of

Virtue

Presentation of the reviewed sections of

the modules

Presentation of methodologies developed

TEAM work and discussion Presentation by TEAMs Presentations by TEAMs

LUNCH BREAK: 1.00 PM to 2:00 PM

SESSION 4: 2.00 PM to 4:30 PM

Recommendation on the draft modules 1, 2& 3)

Review draft modules (Modules 1, 2 & 3)

Module 2: Ethics of Restraint

Module 3: Ethics of Virtue

Final Presentation of Methodologies developed

TEAM wise presentations & discussions TEAM wise presentations & discussions

AGN Team AGN Team

CONCLUDING SESSION

SESSION 5: 4.30 PM to 5.30 PM

Feedback by the participants

Concluding remarks by Resource Persons& AGN team

Experience sharing about the workshop by participants, experts &AGN Team

AGN Team