MES Indian School conducted orientation programme for its teaching faculty recently. As many as 600 teachers attended the orientation with vigour and vitality. On the first day Dr Rodney Sharkey and Dr Alan Weber, both Professors of English, Weill Cornell Medical College, Qatar, led the workshop on ‘Education-teaching and learning skills.’ On the second day, Sian Bezuidenhout, Head of knowledge Centre, Al Maha Academy, spoke on ‘Effective parenting – building up positive relationship among students, parents and teachers’. “Teachers are the engineers of students’ mind so should be well equipped with strategies to face the challenges ahead,” remarked Principal A P Sasidharan while addressing the gathering.
