Empowering educators with Positive Discipline at Haryana Vidyamandir School, Kolkata on 18th September, 2014

Feedback by Teachers:

• "Insight developed from the session is to incorporate more patience and to look the matters in much more open and listen to child also let the child have faith in you." - Papiya Basu
• "Session helped me to learn about my drawbacks in dealing with teenagers, and would definitely improve my views in future." – Piyali Debnath
• "It helped me to learn about a positive discipline , that is A- a proper approach and attitude, B – belief in the child, C- connect and communicate with the child in the right manner and D- discipline in a positive manner." - Pooja Roy Chowdhury
• "I realized that love and logic helps the students to transform their behaviour and to be patient and listen to the students and find out appropriate solutions." - Malaya Ray

Workshop on Conflict Management Class7 at Lions Calcutta Greater Vidya Mandir, Kolkata on 15th September, 2014

Feedback by Students:

• "I have learned how to behave with people around us and show them respect. How we can talk with people through communication to show them with politeness and many things which make us a perfect person." - Soumajit Dey, Class – VII
• "I have learned how to behave with people and how to communicate and what kind of word should we use while talking with people." – Pradyut Mondal, Class – VII
• "In this session, I have learnt about conflict and its disadvantages and I have also learnt about communication and its advantages and how to respect elders and friends." - Rajdeep Saha, Class – VII

Workshop on Gender Sensitivity Class8 at Birla High School for Boys, Kolkata on 15th September, 2014

Feedback by Students:

• "Today I realized that all people are equal irrespective of their gender and to respect women and be gender sensitive also that a person should not only be good in studies but should have good thoughts which would help in society’s progress." - Arinjoy Banerjee
• "I realized that girls and boys are no different, both of them are human and our thinking can help to break this difference. Also both men and women should respect and should not underestimate each other." – Swapnil Ghosh
• "From this class I learnt that both the genders have the equal rights to enjoy their life and cruel practices like purdah system , dowry, female infanticide should be stopped as soon as possible." - Vedant Pararampuria
• "Today I realized that one should not discriminate between a girl or a boy child and also realized that there is no fixed careers or colors for a particular gender." - Saksham Jaiswal

Workshop on Inculcating Positive Discipline at Lions Calcutta Greater Vidya Mandir, Kolkata on 12th September, 2014

Feedback by Students:

• "We learnt that we should maintain discipline in class, home and society. We should listen to our teacher, parents and who are older than us. We should use the words ‘Thank You’, ‘Sorry’ and ‘Please’ whenever required." - Ankita Das, Class – IV
• "We love our friends and respect to other. We should not learn any bad behaviour. When somebody is in trouble we should help them." – Taku, Class – IV
• "We should maintain discipline. Discipline means self-control, trust, and love. It protects our life." - Arnab Banerjee, Class – IV

Workshop on Effective Parenting at Price Waterhouse Coopers, Kolkata on 27th August, 2014

As part of the Diversity Initiatives by the company Price Waterhouse Cooper, Mrs. Salony Priya, the Director of Ummeed was invited to conduct a workshop on Effective Parenting with 35 participants.

Through humour, relevant examples from everyday life, a highly engaging session was conducted by Mrs. Priya, making the session a success, as evident from the testimonials given below:

Feedbacks:

• "Very innovative. Have not heard or attended something like this before. Can easily relate to topics since it was explained by way of example/real life instances." - Amrita Agarwal
• "Great insights provided for young working mother. True life examples which personally I could believe to." – Purvy Rambhasha
• "Delightful insights on stages of growing children." - Kasturi Basu
• "It’s really helpful as it covered the real day to day scenarios and the way we should react to. Loved the concept: don’t control but connect." - Amrita Mittal

Positive parenting at Little Scholars, Montessori House, Kolkata

Feedback of Parents:

• "The session with ma’am was really wonderful and helpful for me as in terms of understanding how to tackle things with our kids. Allowing them and letting them explore and not restrict with her and improve my parenting skills.-ting them to do whatever they wish to do. Would like to attend another such session with her and improve my parenting skills" - Chitra Popat
• "Thank you ma’am for your wonderful session. How to know about the little child’s psychology. To know about his activity but sometime some problem arise how to handle it." – Shivani Popat
• "Ma’am the session as very interesting and helpful. I would prefer to more sessions in future." - Chandrani Dey

Interactive session on Understanding emotional and psychological needs of adolescents at Rourkela on 16th August 2014

On 16th August an intercative session being held with teachers of St. Pauls Rourkela, Carmel and St. Marys Bimtripur, on understanding emotional and psychological needs of adolescents.

Several Role plays done for participants to learn Basic skills as:

• Attending
• Paraphrasing &
• Listening

Method of using close and open ended questions, was highlighted.
Learning was reinforced through activities such as Counsellor & counselee role plays, and Multiple Ball Game.

Interaction on Changes in Education & Role of Teachers at Birla Public School, DOHA

Feedback of Teachers:

• "I learned about the three R’s Relationship, Respect and Responsibility. Also I have understood that responsibility is not to be forced through discipline but relationship." - Alam John
• "Today I learned How to make the below average students motivated and be happy" – P. Salms
• "Listen to the students problem and give them space" - Bijeesh K.T.K
• "One insight developed is having the right attitude and have acceptance for children" – Abraham. C.Utthapa
• "The importance of having a proactive attitude towards discipline in school and the need for building it at the school" – Michelle Motha

Workshop on Gender Sensitivity for Youth at Birla High Boys School, Kolkata, on 14th August, 2014

Feedback of Students:

• “It will help me to respect women even more.” - Yatish Agarwal, XI B
• "What I learnt during the workshop was amazing. Loved it. Enjoyed it.” – Pujeet Manot, XI B
• "This session will help me to look at gender issues differently. I learned that both the genders are equal and should not be discriminated" - Misbahul Haque, XI A
• "This session will really prove to be very helpful as it has exerted a great influence on the way we used to think and perceive things related to the opposite gender.” – Harsh Gopalika, XI A

Workshop on 'Discipline by Design' at Sunbeam Varuna, on 13th August, 2014
Feedback from Teachers:

• “Ma’am in this transition period of changing the educational environment and our upcoming generation setting the acceptable disciplined norms the all guidelines of your workshop will be really helpful. I especially learn much to become a better parent and teacher in my future life.” - Mr. S.P. Tiwari
• "Things I imbibed from this session:

• A teacher needs to inculcate such values in children that they themself realise the importance of being self disciplined.
•  A teacher herself needs to check out her behavior instead of pointing out students.
•  A teacher needs to develop a healthy and respectful behavior with the child so that a child has a trust on teacher to share his feelings.” – Fatima Firoz

• "After this session I understood how to handle a child with positive energy and how to understand the problems of a child and try to solve his problems without losing his self esteem and dignity." - Arun Srivastava