1. About Us:
De Pedagogics is engaged in nurturing education and bringing learning closer
to the learner. We work with schools and organizations to design and develop
curriculum content, CBSE accreditation and affiliation guidance, training
materials, training modules, teaching aids, technology integration and training
and manage all aspects of curriculum development programs to include, but
not limited to: teaching skills, subject-specific trainings, CCE capacity building,
creating inquiry based learning environments and new technology in
education.
De Pedagogics has a broad network with educationists who specialize in varied
domains and offer guidance and mentorship to meet the needs of the school.
WORK PROFILE “Passionately
involved in coaching,
teaching and
learning, we at De
Pedagogics are
committed to
nurturing education
by equipping and
assisting educators
in creating
innovative,
challenging and
enriching classroom
environments that
are conducive to
students becoming
life-long learners.”
2. Education Evangelist Meenakshi Uberoi, the founding director of De Pedagogics, is passionately involved in
coaching, teaching and learning. She designs curriculum and trains educators to equip and assist teachers in creating
innovative, challenging and enriching classroom environments that are conducive to students becoming life-long learners.
She is a columnist for ‘What’s Fresh’, the official blog for Microsoft’s Educator Network (MSEN). Meenakshi has been
recognized as the Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert 2015 and 2005 Microsoft Innovative Teacher Award for effective
integration of technology and innovative lesson design. She believes that it is imperative to innovate, create and integrate to
succeed in a rapidly changing world of education and that innovation and the ability to collaborate is an investment in the
future where technology provides the tools for us to meet the 21st century goals. Her focus lies in addressing the diverse
interest and abilities of the students by presenting information in a variety of ways using technology as a vehicle and
emphasizing relevance of class material to the world beyond the classroom.
Jyoti Chaba, the c0-founder of De Pedagogics, is passionate about education she loves to find innovative ways to
reach out to students and educators both. A globetrotter, she has lived in many cities across the world like Tokyo,
Cairo, Dubai and Shanghai. A firm believer in being an agent of change in the field of education; has always strived to
evolve wherever she has found herself. She has had varied experiences from working as a graphic designer, being a full
time teacher to editing an expat magazine. Her main strength lies in progressive work in project based learning
programs and fostering 21st century learning skills for both students and educators making their learning adventurous
and delightful. A teacher first, she passionate about technology in education and is a gadget enthusiast and a fitness
freak. She firmly believes in giving back to the society especially for the girl child in whatever way possible and has
been regularly involved in volunteering at local schools.
Minakshi Ahlawat -co-founder of De Pedagogics, has a passion for creating learning experiences
that go beyond the walls of school. She works with teachers to train, support, coach, and encourage
dynamic growth in 21st century learning to prepare students for their futures. She believes that the crucial
development in the early years will have greater impact on student’s future overall development in
becoming a well-being person. Being a language expert she designs language learning environment that
ensure fostering of language skills such as writing and communicating in real-life with others. For her,
knowledge construction, collaboration, creativity, communication and problem -solving are some of the
essentials for designing a learning activity to increase motivation of students.
THE TEAM
3. Curriculum Development
With the belief that curriculum development is a key process in
determining the quality of learning and teaching, I have been leading
the process of curriculum development at Pathways World School as a
Coordinator and now at The Heritage School-Gurgaon as a Visiting Consultant.
The main purpose of the process is to translate broad statements of intent(IB
PYP at Pathways World School and CBSE Accreditation, CBSE affiliation,
CBSE CCE implementation & CCSS ELA) into specific plans and actions.
The process of Curriculum Development has following stages:
• Understanding the (Intent) Stage
• Planning Stage
o Content framework
o Horizontal & vertical alignment and planning,
o Defining approaches, processes and policies
o Identifying Learning Outcomes
o Aligning assessment – tools & strategies
• Implementation Stage
• Reflection & Review Stage
Students are at the heart of curriculum and our best intent is to develop
student-led program with where students receive integrated, coherent learning
experiences that contribute towards their personal, academic and professional
learning and development.
Curriculum Development Alliances
• Currently working towards Curriculum Development,
Strategic Planning and Teacher Empowerment with The
Heritage School-Gurgaon; Blue Bells Group of Schools
Gurgaon & Royal Oak International School Gurgaon
• Currently working towards Curriculum Development as a
part of SQAA for Blue Bells Group of Schools Gurgaon
• Designing Curriculum and developing content for 2 new
schools to be launched in the coming year
• Developing Thematic Learning Program based on inquiry
& experiential learning
(Grades Nur-3 at The Heritage School-Gurgaon)
• Developing Language Program based on Common Core
State Standards English Language Arts
(Grades Nur-3 at The Heritage School-Gurgaon)
• Developing school-wide(Junior School) Authentic
Assessment and Reporting System
(Grades Nur-3 at The Heritage School-Gurgaon)
• Developed PYP Trans-disciplinary Program Of Inquiry
(Grades Nur-5 at Pathways World School-Aravali)
• Developed PYP Language & Numeracy Program
(Grades Nur-5 at Pathways World School-Aravali)
4. CCE CAPACITY BUILDING PROGRAM
LIFE SKILLS HEALTH AND
WELLNESS
EDUCATION
ATTITUDES
&
VALUES
WORK
EDUCATION
VALUES
EDUCATION &
INTEGRITY
CLUBS
ART
EDUCATION
5. Workshops at a Glance
Learning Theories Teaching Skills
English Language
Skills
Inquiry
Workshops
Assessment
Workshops
Bloom’s Taxonomy Classroom Management
Writer’s Workshop: 6 +1
Traits of a Good Writer
Student-led Inquiry Role of Assessment
Multiple Intelligences in the
classroom
Teaching & Learning in
Inquiry
Reading Comprehension Inquiry Types of Assessment
De Bono’s Thinking Hats
Learning & Teaching with
Bloom’s Taxonomy
Phonics: Letter & Sounds
Transdisciplinary
Learning
Role of Reporting
Role of Technology in
Teaching
Reading and Writing through
Inquiry
Play-based Learning
Using Thinker’s Keys for
teaching & learning
The Art of Commenting and
Providing Feedback
Art of Story-telling
Inquiry and the role of
Librarian
Motivating Students
Subject Specific – English, Math, EVS, Science, Social Science
Effective Teaching Methods
for 21st century Learners
Quality Circle Time Dealing with
Differentiation
New Teachers Training –
Rigour, Relevance &
Routines
6. Learning Theories
Bloom’s Taxonomy
in the classroom
The purpose of this workshop is to use the revised version of
Bloom's taxonomy as a guide for how to think about thinking.
The workshop is designed to help educators feel more
comfortable using these strategies in their teaching-learning
processes and the representation of learning.
Cultivating
Multiple
Intelligences
This workshop provides educators with tools and strategies to help
students celebrate their own uniqueness, honour the diversity among
them, and find ways to learn the way their mind learns best.
De Bono’s
Thinking Hats
This workshop aims at promoting parallel thinking as an alternative
to argument and allows participants to look at problems from non-
traditional perspectives. This technique adds depth to the planning
process by ensuring that all possibilities are explored and is a good
critical-thinking tool for solving problems.
Using Thinker’s
Keys for teaching &
learning
This enriching and practical workshop on Thinker’s keys will provide
educators an insight into ways of enhancing the intellectual quality of
everyday lessons. Practical strategies for promoting higher order
thinking and deep understanding amongst students and engage
students in the richest possible intellectual rigour with their daily
lessons and to explicitly involve them in high order thinking
experiences is the single most effective way to advance their learning.
7. Teaching Skills
Classroom
Management
This workshop that unfolds ideas, strategies and tools for better environmental and behavioural
management in classrooms. These strategies /tools for Teaching give the nuts and bolts to make it
easy to become an effective teacher.
Teaching & Learning in
Inquiry
The participants will examine the links between an inquiry-driven curriculum, inquiry-process and
active responsible learning. Areas covered include questioning tactics, differentiation, grouping and
learning styles and is underlined by the principles of backwards by design .
Role of Technology in
Teaching
This workshop is aimed at increasing the ICT skill levels and confidence of teachers to enable them to
effectively integrate ICT into teaching and learning.
The Art of Commenting
and Providing Feedback
This workshop aims at empowering teachers and building their capacity to provide effective and
meaningful feedback to both students and parents on student’s writing/assignments and the learning
process as a whole and support them in further developing their understanding
Motivating Students
This workshop aims at rediscovering motivation in teaching and learning and reflecting on existing
practices to make them more interesting.
Learning & Teaching with
Bloom’s Taxonomy
The goal of this workshop is to motivate educators to focus on all three domains – cognitive,
affective & psychomotor while creating a more holistic form of education
The Art of Commenting
and Providing Feedback
This workshop empowers teachers with the language that can be used to convey feedback in a
positive and encouraging manner
Life Skills (CCE)
This is an interactive workshops on a range of key skills to help teachers embed these skill sets in their
teaching learning engagements.
Quality Circle Time
This workshop showcases using the Quality Circle Time model to promote self-esteem, respect, positive
behaviour and learning It looks at how schools can shine up and re-energise their listening and positive
behaviour systems and enable adults and children to work on their emotional and social intelligence.
Effective Teaching
Methods for 21st century
Learners
This workshop will focus on effective pedagogical practices for supporting students with diverse
learning needs and will provide examples of how various strategies can be used to enhance and in
some instance transform the existing practices that are implemented in today's classroom.
8. English Language Skills
Writer’s
Workshop:
6 +1 Traits of a
Good Writer
This workshop aims at introducing this popular analytic
model and providing teachers with classroom practices to
help students identify quality in writing, manage their own
writing process, practice effective revision and editing, and
become confident writers.
Reading
Comprehension
This workshop familiarizes the strategies that help students
learn how to coordinate reading and comprehending text by
using a set of key comprehension techniques before, during,
and after they read a variety of texts. Teachers are
introduced to a variety of tools to help students learn to ask
questions, make connections with prior knowledge and
previously read texts, and ask meaningful questions related
to the text.
Phonics: Letter
& Sounds
This workshops clearly explain the phonological skills
hierarchy and how understanding the various levels of
phonological awareness can lead to better instruction.
Teachers leave the workshops with effective ways to assess
and teach phonological awareness.
Reading and
Writing through
Inquiry
This workshop enables participants to extend their
knowledge, skills and understanding relevant to the teaching
of reading and writing using an inquiry approach
9. Inquiry Workshops
Student-led
Inquiry
This workshop establishes the understanding that inquiry
extends beyond asking and answering questions. It is provoked
through a stimulating environment, where the teacher acts as
guide, facilitator and co-learner.
Inquiry
The participants in this workshop will examine the links between
an inquiry-driven curriculum, inquiry-process models,
construction of meaning and active responsible learning through
the process of reflecting on one’s own learning.
Transdiscip
linary
Learning
This workshop is geared towards an integrated approach in
theme planning covering and working across multiple domains/
subject areas.
Play-based
Learning
The workshop will explore the principles of play-based learning,
appreciate the significance of classroom environments, examine
the organization of the space and project work.
Inquiry and
the role of a
Librarian
The workshop will help unravel the role of a librarian as a
resource person for an inquiry-led learning approach. Have an
understanding of inquiry, share perspectives and practices, and
apply their own knowledge base of resources, both digital and
print to an inquiry led curricular approach.
10. Assessment Workshops
Role of
Assessment
Participants will explore the purpose of
assessment, a range of assessment practices,
record keeping and communication, and school-
wide policy development
Types of
Assessment
This workshop offers opportunities to explore the
latest developments in assessment processes and
their applications. Identifying what students
know, understand, can do and feel at different
stages in the inquiry process requires careful
gathering and analysis of information about
student performance.
Role of Reporting
Workshop session covers the purpose, function
and process of reporting as well as strategies and
tools for reporting of learning in authentic
contexts and explore the relationship between
assessment and documentation
11. Technology Enriched
Instructions
The workshop model promote teaching with technology, rather than teaching the technology, with the
goal that teachers leave the workshop being able to understand how to integrate one tech-enhanced
activity into their own daily instructional practices.
Flipped classroom The session gives the educators an insight into how to implement this strategy into their own teaching
and approaches to create and deliver flipped class content to ensure deeper understanding and greater
participation of students in their learning process.
Blended Learning This workshop provides educators ways to use technology to create blended learning environments that
help create more and better opportunities for teacher collaboration, enable differentiated staffing and
boost meaningful professional development opportunities
Transforming Learning
Environments - anytime
anywhere learning
A session for educators and leaders engaged in holistic education transformation. The anytime
anywhere approaches to K-12 learning explores the potential of new technology for transforming
learning outcomes for students and their communities
Differentiation & role of
technology
The purpose of this workshop is to show how technology can support differentiated instructional
strategies in today’s diverse classrooms and equip educators with tools to meet the needs of all learners.
Powering-up with Productivity
Tools
This session is an introduction to tech-tools that can facilitate everyday time-consuming tasks of
educators and increase productivity
Digital Story-telling This session provides an insight into using of digital storytelling for both teaching and learning. Digital
storytelling is one way for students and teachers to share their knowledge.
21st Century Learning Design The workshop aims at understanding Learning Strategies of the 21st Century Learner and preparing the
teachers to be effective 21st century educators.
TPACK-based Learning The session entails developing a hands-on understanding of TPACK (Technology Pedagogy And Content
Knowledge) and explores real ways to genuinely integrate ICT with content and pedagogy.
Digital Citizenship In this workshop, participants will learn about essential skills for digital citizenship, how to teach
students these skills, and how to create a positive school culture around technology.
Transforming Education with Technology
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learning worldwide (no cost involved). The network offers free learning material, ICT tools, collaboration platform and professional development
opportunities for educators and schools.
12. Deep Thinking for Deep Learning: This session is designed for
school leaders and teachers who are striving to develop learning experiences
that go beyond the surface and identify a framework for deep learning
competencies. For long now, educators have strived to develop learning
experiences that go beyond surface learning and help students to develop
connections to learning at a level that demonstrates deep understanding,
application and an awareness of the interconnectedness of learning concepts.
The workshop focusses on exploring& discussing thought processes and
pedagogies for Deep Learning that engages students to develop skills to be
lifelong learners; creative, connected and collaborative problem solvers.
Rethinking strategies for 21st Century Learning
Design: The workshop aims at understanding Learning Strategies
of the 21st Century Learner and preparing the teachers to be
effective 21st century educators. We will talk about the changing
landscape in education and define roadmap to best fit the needs of
the 21st century educator and learners. The workshop explores
strategies to aid and rethink pedagogical approaches and learning
goals and focusses on how educators can design and practice
teaching and learning that lead to more successful futures for all
students.
Flipped classroom: Flipped learning is a model of teaching in
which the more passive learning activities such as watching lectures,
happen outside of the classroom, saving more in-person class time
for interactive activities. Flipping the classroom essentially entails a
shift from teacher-centred classroom teaching to student-led
learning processes. In this workshop, we will explore different
flipped design models and the educational benefits of the flipped
design. The educators will gain a deeper understanding of how to
implement this strategy into their own teaching and approaches to
create and deliver flipped class content.
Making Thinking Visible: During this workshop, we will focus on the
practical and concrete ways educators can create a culture of thinking in
schools and classrooms, foster the kinds of thinking opportunities that lead
students to learn well and develop understanding of content, and how to look
for evidence of student thinking and understanding. Participants will be
introduced to a variety of thinking routines: what they are and how they can be
used to create more thoughtful classrooms and create cultures of thinking that
actively engage students in thinking on an ongoing basis understanding.
TPACK: Teaching with Technology: The workshop model
uses four specific types of professional development experiences to
promote teaching with technology, rather than teaching the
technology, with the goal that teachers leave the workshop being
able to understand how to integrate one tech-enhanced activity into
their own daily instructional practices. The session entails
developing a hands-on understanding of TPACK (Technology
Pedagogy And Content Knowledge) and explores real ways to
genuinely integrate ICT with content and pedagogy.
Professional learning Modules
2015-16
