Six months ago she was a primary school teacher at Bal Bigyan school, Patan, doing some occasional tutoring work for us. Then she decided to give up her job and train to be a full-time Education Consultant working for NSA. Now after three months extensive training in the UK she has just run the opening day of the Academy's Foundation course on .............................. Educational Psychology!
Babita Shrestha took a big chance by giving up her job, but today she probably realises what a good decision it was; and so do the rest of us.
Our Educational Psychology workshop covers three broad areas related to child centred learning; The Child, The Learning, The Methods. More specifically we explore the psychological concepts important to each such as diversity, motivation and development stages of the child, cognitive, social and moral aspects of learning, and finally learning processes, classroom strategies and assessment strategies as part of the teaching method. Quite a lot to fit into one day, but with a mixture of theoretical inputs and activities the message is very clear that child centredness is a MUST for introduction into Nepali primary schools.
Tomorrow is all about Values in the school and ethical standards that should be shown by teachers and developed in the children.
And, oh yes, at 4pm the TV crew from News 24 turned up. But that's another story!
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Congratulations NSA, Babita and NSA Academy! I hope the Nepali Department for Education is taking notice. Pass on Haverigg Primary School's best wishes to all NSA Academy tutors and trainees.
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