A Vision to Change and Influence

Hi TrendSetters,

Great start for a wonderful chill evening..... Guess what.... Nice churmuri hand prepared by our Muralieee :-)

Made us feel hot to discuss hot topics below ;-)

Agenda of the meeting was simple. Prepare a one day curriculum about 4-5 hours for the kolar school.

Date not yet decided. Should be finalized in couple of days.

Meeting started in the evening as most of us were not free in the morning. Myself, Murali, Sridhar, Prasanna started our discussion around 5.30 PM and later Hari (Srinivasan) ( a new joinee to TrendSetters !!!! ) from SES joined us.

Infact, had a wireless talk with Shashi. He suggested if we can think of any Sanskrit name equivalent to TrendSetters which would have some masala to our Vision to change activity ;-)

Reached Prashant but he was in office :-( Hard worker !!!!

Invisible Lakshmi..... Dont worry, wont steel lakshmi from u ;-)

Jagdish, I think Sridhar tried to reach u but were on top, Himalaya (Jaga Disha).. ;-)

Below points summarizes the activities.

1. Initially we will kick off our curriculum with a group activity, which would be an icebreaker to the students. We will form a group of 5-6 children. The icebreaker is yet to be decided.

2. Small story from one of us before the icebreaker. This is to see how good they have listened to our story.

3. Small story is followed by an icebreaker could either be a small presentation or skit or any such contribution from each of the group.

4. Now when once they are comfortable after the icebreaker, we would ask those teams to come up with the skit which relates to the story we initially described. Idea.... Is to observe their listening skills, and the way they communicate. Story is yet to be decided. It should contain 5-6 key points and we have to see how the children depicts these points.

5. We need to describe the importance of listening after this and how important it is for their individual development.

6. Following this would be a simple 5 minutes game for them to relax, probably a coffee break to us !!! We have couple of games in mind, and let us discuss during next week meeting. Please do come up with some games if u have in mind.

7. This would be followed by a skit by us, where in we come up with the importance of oral communication. As Prasanna described, we can initially come up with a bad way of communication and then shows how the same can be made good. The concept is yet to be decided. Please do come up with the same by next week.

8. Time Management Skills - Story is ready, will be presented by us and letz listen from the group what they understand about the story and how it relates to Time management. We need to make the students understand how it really improves them if they manage their time properly.

9. If time persists, we can give a small topic like Making Area Garbage Free, Bus Stand Scenario etc and ask each team to present a skit or a general presentation of how to improve the same. Key learning... What all we taught above, their oral communication, Time management, collaborative learning where each student listens to the other and improve their listening skills.

10. A loo break after couple of good learnings..

11. Exam Taking Skills -- Lot of techniques are available on net, but it is very difficult to make students understand it. We need to see how best we can convey our message to the group. Please browse the net and come up with some different way of making students feel how to improve their exam taking skills.

12. End with a nice game... ;-)

13. A small intro about us and motivational message from all of us.

Yeah, requires some polishing for sure (Cherry polish on this !!!!). But me confident that it would be a successs... !!!

Srikanth

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