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Highlights of the Quarter 2

Report of the Conference 2

Self - Compositions 3 — 4

Inside this issue:

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Volume 4, Issue 1

August– November 2014

A Glimpse of the plethora of activities from August 2014– November 2014

Pictures of the two days Conference on 12th and 13th November 2014 on the theme “Corporate Governance and its Role in Minimizing the Isolation of Teacher

Education”

Inaugural Session of the Conference

Speakers of Technical Session Speakers of Technical Session

(From L to R) Principal Dr. R. Bhatia, Chief Guests Prof. K.K Aggarwal and Engg. A.K Srivastava

Report on the National Conference

Amity Institute of Education, New Delhi organized a two days Conference on the theme “Corporate Governance and its Role in Minimizing the Isolation of Teacher Education” on November 12-13, 2014 at Amity Campus, Saket, New Delhi.

Participants from eleven Universities and twenty- three colleges of NCR enriched themselves from the proceedings of the

Conference including Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Indira Gandhi National Open University, Manav Rachna

University, Chaudhary Charan Singh University, Maharishi Dayanand University, Lingaya’s University, Delhi University, Ami-

ty University, Uttar Pradesh, Jamia Millia Islamia University, K.R Mangalam University and Meerut University

Day 1 - November 12th, 2014 Prof. K. K. Aggarwal, Chancellor, K.R. Mangalam University, Gurgaon and Engineer A. K. Srivastava, Member of

Governing Board for Restructuring of Higher Education, Amity University Uttar Pradesh and Dr. Tushar K. Nath, Director,

Legal Policy Research in Amity Group of Universities inaugurated the Conference.

The two technical sessions of the day were -“Emerging Trends in Corporate Governance in Education” and “Approach of

Corporate in Good Governance of Teacher Education” wherein key speakers were- Prof. Pranati Panda, Department of

School & Non-Formal Education, NUEPA, New Delhi, Ms. Susmita Pruthi, Design and Development Head, School Learning

Solutions, NIIT Ltd, New Delhi, Ms. Rupa Chakravarty, Principal, Suncity World School, Gurgaon, Dr. J.K. Goyal, Director,

JIMS, Rohni , New Delhi, Dr. Renu Malaviya ,Associate Prof. Lady Irwin College ,Delhi University, Prof. Vikas Nath, ,Director

and Dean (Academics) and Ms. Anjali Sharma, Assistant Professor, BVIMR, New Delhi, Ms. Arti Chopra, Principal, Amity

International School, Sect. -46, Gurgaon and Dr. Anupama , Head Executive MBA, TND & Consultancy, Amity Business

School, AUUP who shared their views. Prof. A. K. Sharma, Formerly Director, NCERT and Prof. Rajaram Sharma,

Joint Director, CIET, NCERT were the Chairperson of technical session 1 and technical session 2 respectively.

Day 2 - November 13th, 2014 The second day of the Conference, also included two technical sessions- “Role of Corporate Governance in meeting the

Challenges being faced by the Teacher Education” and “Bringing Quality and Reforms in Teacher Education with the

Involvement of Corporate Governance” by erudite speakers including Ms. Meera Balachandran, Director, Education

Quality Foundation of India, New Delhi, Dr. Y. Sreekant, Associate Professor, NCERT, New Delhi, Dr. Suman Sachdeva,

Technical Director-Education, Care India, N.D., Ms. Geeta Varshneya, Education Director, Khaitan Public School,

Sahidabad, UP, Dr. Dasyam Venkateshwarlu, Professor of Education (Special Education), IGNOU, New Delhi, Dr. Shubhra

Mangal, Principal, Chetram Sharma College of Education , Noida; Prof Anita Rastogi , Head , Department of Educational

Studies, Faculty of Education, Jamia Millia Islamia New Delhi, Dr. Sujata Tripathi , Principal, Ramanujan College of Ed-

ucation, Palwal, Dr. Kiran Gupta, Assistant Prof., Manav Rachna University, Faridabad and Dr. Alka Muddgal, Officiating

Head , Amity Institute of Education, AUUP. Dr. Renu Singh, Director, Young Lives, India and Prof C.B. Sharma,

Coordinator, Ph. D Programme, School of Education, Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), New Del-

hi were the Chairperson of technical session 3 and technical session 4 respectively.

Prof. Dhruv Raina, Hony. Director, ICSSR- Northern Regional Centre , New Delhi graced the valedictory session

Certificate of participation was given to all the participants. The two day conference ended on a successful note.

HIGHLIGHTS OF THE QUARTER

Orientation week of the B.Ed 2014-15 began on August 14th, 2014. It included :

Ice Breaking Session

Visit to Amity International School, Saket and Pushp Vihar.

Guest Lecture by Mrs. Mohini Dar on ‘Expectations from a Teacher’.

Guest Lecture by Lt. Gen. B.K Bopana on Milllitary Training Camp

Visit to Amity School of Communication, Amity University, AUUP

Micro– Teaching Workshop was organized in the institute from September 8th 2014– September 15th, 2014.

A Workshop on ‘How to use a Smart Board in the classroom’ was organized on September12th, 2014

Chalk Board Workshop was attended by the students on September 22nd, 2014.

National Conference sponsored by GGSIP University was organized on November 12th —13th, 2014 on the theme

“Corporate Governance and its Role in Minimizing the Isolation of Teacher Education”.

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V OLU ME 4, ISS UE 1

It started with an exciting orientation,

With lot of fun and motivation.

Havan ceremony showered us with the blessings,

Visit to schools gave us the overview of our future learning.

Visit to Amity University highlighted the technology in

communication,

Taking part in a live show fulfilled my expectations.

Everyday morning assembly recharges us for the whole day,

With so many new things on the way.

Classes started to pursue this path of education ,

Every subject came up with its own novel explanation.

Philosophy showed the way of living,

Psychology tried to inculcate the way of behaving,

Curriculum had lot of instructions to give ,

The teaching subjects were the strong self pillars I believe.

Conferences, seminars and events reconstructed many new

experiences,

Each lecture in the class had different methodology of

Teachings.

At NCERT, first time I took part in a Street play ,

World Didac conference aroused the innovations with crea-

tion of new rays.

Chalk board writing workshop concluded that 'handwriting is

brain writing',

Disaster Management and Risk Management workshop was

safety prone and enlightening .

Visit to schools gave the real training,

SEP gave us the glimpse of the profession of teaching.

I have also learnt to be right at times when I used to be wrong,

Not only academic but it has made me spiritually strong.

It has been indeed a great journey till date,

Looking forward to more updates.

Anjali Mehta Sahu, B.Ed

A TEACHER FOR ALL SEASONS

A teacher is like spring, who nurtures new green sprouts Encourages and leads them, whenever they have doubts. A teacher is like summer, whose sunny temperament Makes studying a pleasure, preventing discontent. A teacher is like fall, with methods crisp and clear Lessons of bright colors, and a happy atmosphere.

A teacher is like Winter, while it’s snowing hard outside

Keeping students comfortable, as a warm and helpful guide.

Teacher, you do all these things, With a pleasant attitude

You’re a teacher for all seasons, and you have my gratitude.

Meenakshi Tiwari, B.Ed

It’s time to move on…... When you choose to change, grow and move on someone or something will come into your life to help you. So change is a

necessary factor in order to accomplish your goals. When we choose to change we are stepping out of our comfort zones.

Look for the good

When change happens, traumatic or not, experience it, study it, find the good in it, be grateful for it, and use it to move on. No

matter what changes, we can enrich our lives when we search for the good in it. It may not be easy and it requires courage,

discipline and self knowledge, but it’s incredibly worthwhile.

Understanding change – what it will do for you?

View change as an opportunity to grow, move on and triumph. A change can lead you to learn new skills, improve your fitness,

open yourself to new experiences or become closer to your loved ones.

You have to be a change master and not a change victim!

People deal with change in different ways. Some people barely cope. They resist, complain and cast blame they are change

victims. But some reinforce their backbones earning a PhD in life, for them there is no bad luck. They learn grow and achieve

their goals. For them change is an opportunity they are change masters.

Getting started

There is no doubt, change can be challenging. But by understanding the process finding the good in it and realizing you have the

power to handle it, use change to move on to victory.

So it’s time to move on!

Krishna, B.Ed

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My Experience in Semester I

Earth says to rain, “Hey rain, we are truly grateful. Because you come to us, I live, and every-

thing – grass and trees – live together! How come you don’t think of yourself? We haven’t done

anything for you but still, you just come to us whenever we need you. You help and save us.”

“I was born to be this way. Because I was born without the mind of the self, I can be used in plac-

es I am needed, without expecting anything for me. Because there isn’t myself, I cannot do

something for myself. I was just born in the world to give everything of me. So I am so free

and happy. And, we are one without you and me. You don’t directly help me but you also hold

the world and help grass and trees to grow, don’t you? We, the nature, are truly beautiful as we

just exist for one another without the self, all the time,” said the rain.

“Yes, as you said, I also don’t have the mind of the self so I don’t even want to receive any-

thing. I can only give for the life in the world. The Sun in the sky always burns itself to illumi-

nate the whole world warmly and also helps grass and trees to grow, doesn’t it? The nature of

the world doesn’t have the self, so it seems to just exist as one for one another. It is truly beau-

tiful because it always gives without any expectation,” said the earth.

“Yes, I am so happy to live in the world. Not having the mind of the self is too good and joy-

ful. I feel so good because I just give everything without expectation. I don’t even have the

mind that I have given everything. I am truly happy,” said the rain.

Editorial Board

Allied Sciences), among others. It

further included some exciting visits

that unfolded parts of the Amity

Universe hitherto unknown to most of

us. We got opportunities to visit Amity

International Schools at Saket and

Pushp Vihar which were followed by a

day-long tour of Amity University Ut-

tar Pradesh. However, even the day-

long visit proved to be quite short for

exploring the huge and majestic

campus the academic treasure that it

encompassed.

Our next tryst with this majestic

campus was on our visit during the

annual sport meet - Sangathan-2014.

The gala event showcased the

versatility of Amity, starting with

Amiown - meant for toddlers to the

many institutes of higher education

spread across the globe.

Joining AIE Saket has a two-fold

advantage!! One, it lets you be in one

of the well-known IPU-affiliated B.Ed.

colleges; and two, you also become a

part of the magnificent

Amity Universe.

The meticulous and disciplined way

of functioning of AIE Saket was

evident to me from the first day itself.

It all started off with a well-organized

and appropriately planned orientation-

programme. It exposed us to the vari-

ous facets of the education sector at an

opportune time – right when we were

stepping into this sector to form our

careers. To this effect, we heard some

enlightening lectures by various Amity

experts like Mrs. Mohina Dar

(Sr. Consultant, Amity International

Schools and Prof. Abha Singh (Amity

Institute of Behavioural Health &

My School Experience

Programme was in Amity International

School, Saket where, apart from the

state-of-the-art and innovative

educational environment, I got to

witness and participate in the

preparations for their biggest day, i.e.

their Annual Day. It was truly inspiring

to see the dedication and determination

of students and teachers alike in the

endeavor to put up a grand and

successful show. Training at this school

was also a great and satisfying

experience.

All I can say is that, we had only

heard about the world-renowned brand

Amity, but being a part of it made us

realize the magnificence of this

Universe!

Nivedita Dasgupta, B.Ed

My impressions of the ‘Amity Universe’

Born to Give………….

EDITORIAL MEMBERS : Patron — Dr. Ranjana Bhatia Faculty Incharge — Ms Deepti Madhura

Students — Anjali Sahu, Karishma Badhwar, Kiranjot Kaur, Sadhvi Sethi