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

The best way to be happy is to keep others happy

Hi trendsetters,

I just read srikanth's minutes on 17thDec, to be frank it was terrific, Anyone reading that would definitely get energised to get involved in the activity we are doing.
Let me quickly brief about the minutes on previous week i,e 10th Dec.

The discussion started at around 11 AM with myself, lakshmeesha, sridhar, srikanth and prashanth.
To say the least everyone was on their toes with bunch of ideas, so we did a brain storming session on how we can take the ideas forward.
We all agreed to come up with a 8 week workshop curriculum which could be implemented in high school, preferably 10th std.
As sridhar recommended Blossom's school, Lakshmeesha gave the idea of talking to his uncle on how we can contribute.
and Prasanna took up the creation of blog.
Following were the items discussed to build up on our curriculum
Prasanna-

1. Quality Improvement
2. Communication Skills
3. Stage Fear
4. Lakshmeesha-
5. Personality Development
6. Positive Attitude
7. Mental Block - Gender Diff removal
8. Encouragement through gifts
9. Listening Skills
10. Out of Box Thinking
11. Prashanth-
12. Team Building.
13. Icebreaking Techniques
14. Creative Ideas
15. Innovative learning.

When it came to the group name following were the names thought of
v7, trendsetters,B-Catalyst.

Finally TrendSetters was choosen by popular choice.

We all understand this is a challenge we need to take it forward.

As we have only 2 weekends left to start our workshop, I would suggest everyone to elaborate the points given by each one of us and come up with an implementable strategy.
We will meet again at 11 AM Sunday and finalise on the topics

Wish you all a great time.
Thanks for your time. Lets us plan something for partying out as well :)
-prasanna

OBJECTIVE

We believe in teaching those skills to students which is usually not taught in class. 

So, THE FOCUS IS ON

• COLLABORATIVE LEARNING
• PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT
• BETTER LEARNING SKILLS
• IMPROVE LISTENING SKILLS
• COMMUNICATION
• EXPOSING HIDDEN TALENT
• ENGLISH LANGUAGE
  
• EXAM TAKING SKILLS
• TIME MANAGEMENT
• BUILDING SELF-CONFIDENCE
• ENCOURAGING SOCIAL ACTIVITIES
• THINK & ACT/ANALYSE WRITTEN SKILLS
• FEAR ERADICATION
• THINK OUT OF THE BOX CONCEPT
• ICE-BREAKING TECHNIQUES
  

FORUM

We visit schools (Government and private) on every Saturday.

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FIRST MEET

Hi TrendSetters,

Please find the minutes of meeting on December 17th Sunday, 2006.

TrendSetters, had a nice gettogether at Sridhar's residence around 11.00 AM. It was nice to see Mr.Anand, who has a unique hobby of visiting remote places and contributes his best to the people in those places. The best part that I saw in him was his simplicity. We wish we all can take some of his ideas and implement the same in due course.

Around 11.30 AM Myself, Murali, Prashant, Shashi, Jagdish, Lakshmee, Prasanna and Sridhar settled after a bit of chit chatting. A warmth intro was due to follow by Sridhar. Couple of us were new to couple of others and so Sridhar took the first step in letting us know about each others, how all of us had a common motto in mind, to give back something to the society.

Prasanna took over from Sridhar and gave a brief discussion we had last week. He shared our idea of going to high school students and motivating them wrt development. He also shared the idea of continuing this activity even during the holidays.

Then followed a clear action plan of how to go about and what to in the coming few weeks. We were able to summarize the points by 1.30 PM. Below points summarizes the same.

1. Curriculum for our coming 6-8 weeks of our training to school students to be planned and completed by December month end.

2. We will be conducting the training from Jan 1st week and go til Feb last week on every Saturday.

3. Sridhar and Laksheeshah would take up on which school to target upon. Sridhar already had talks with the Blossom's school incharge person (Oooopss forgot his name !!!) and it would be confirmed by next week.

4. Curriculum would be broadly classified as mentioned in the next point. Trendsetters will com up with their action plan of how to take up with each of the curriculum topics, what to include - any drama, skits, short stories, presentations etc by this week end which would help trendsetters in bringing a well-formed curriculum.

We also had a nice cup of juice by Suguna aunty which boosted our energy to conceptualize the above points.

Do ping in more points if I have missed any.,

Srikanth

The best way to be happy is to keep others happy