Breakfast Meetings - Teach The Teacher Program

Breakfast Meetings - Teach The Teacher Program

The goal of Breakfast Meetings (BM) is to provide a platform for alumni to present a brief insight into the different fields they excel. BM will try to reach a broad audience that includes fellow alumni, teachers past and present and invited guests.

The ‘Teach the Teacher Program’ (TTTP) is primarily focused on the teacher community. It is an effort to bring returning alumni (or experts in respective fields) to provide training, conduct seminars/presentations that would help existing teachers in enhancing and upgrading their existing skill set.

Guidelines for TTTP/Breakfast Meetings

  • Conduct short courses / seminars / training of topics of du jour.
  • All training materials must be reviewed by BM/TTTP team for content and structure prior to presentation
  • Presenter will provide presentation materials to all participants.
  • A sign-up form will be made available on portal to indicate the number of people attending the course.
  • Presenters may choose to provide their contact details if participants choose to avail of their services.
  • Each presenter to elicit feedback for continous improvement of program.
  • Presenter will provide email & phone contact to team.
  • Presenter will ensure that they provide a 48 hour cancellation notice.
  • Presenter to provide a short profile for portal annoucements.
  • BM/TTTP coordinator will arrange light refeshments for guests.
  • A token gift to presenter as a mark of alumni community appreciation.

Breakfast meeting profile

Profiles of presentations at the SSESA breakfast meetings

Breakfast with Paul:Financial Planning

CLICK HERE TO SIGNUP FOR EVENT


Date: November 25th 2007

Time: 11am

Location: St. Stanislaus School Museum

Presentation Highlights

1. Explain key elements of personal wealth management to provide guidance on attaining financial security and growing personal wealth through investment strategies.

2. Present practical techniques and steps to identify the factors surrounding personal wealth, understanding risk and choosing an asset allocation strategy that aligns with personal goals and concerns.

Target Audience

The presentation is suited for a broad audience from those planning to grow wealth or planning early retirement or those retired.

About Paul D'souza
Paul D'Souza is an alumnus of St. Stanislaus High School, Class of 1986. He has an MBA (Finance) and has worked with various financial services companies and was instrumental in launching the Portfolio Management schemes in a number of organizations like UTI Securities Exchange Ltd, HDFC Mutual Fund and ICICI Prudential Life Insurance. He currently runs his own business Cuzinns Investment Services with a client base of 250 clients and Assets under Management (AUM) of Rs 6 crores.

More details at Paul D'souza Website

About the Breakfast meeting series
The Breakfast Meetings is a SSESA member activity aimed at providing a platform for alumni to present a brief insight into the different fields they excel in. Breakfast Meetings will try to reach a broad audience that includes fellow alumni, teachers past and present and invited guests.

Local and Alumni abroad can share their skills or assist as a volunteer at the Breakfast meetings. Write to us at the email provided below.

Note: There are limited seats available at this Breakfast Meeting. You need to register prior to this SSESA event. Use the Signup link below or send an e-mail :bm@stanislites.org

Breakfast Meeting: Using ICT's to transform St. Stanislaus

Date: March 30th, 2008

Venue: St. Stanislaus School Library

Time: 11am

Subject: Using computers as a tool for education and equipping students of St. Stanislaus for the future

The St. Stanislaus Ex-students Association together with Comet Media Foundation is organizing a Breakfast meeting on March 30th 2008 at 11am in the school museum. You are encouraged to attend as this meeting will present the opportunity to understand how computers can be used as a tool for education. The meeting will allow for discussion as to how you can play a role in making this a reality in St Stanislaus. An increasing number of schools in Mumbai are adopting computers for education and administration.

The primary aim of any school system is to equip learners to face life in the environment they live in. In the last two decades, Information and Communication Technologies or ICTs (normally referred to as "computers“) have come to play a vital role in how people live, learn and work. The huge growth of the use of the Internet and personal computers have contributed to this.

ICT’s are heavily used in business, manufacturing and government and has played a special role in India's economic growth in the last two decades.

It is our endeavour to equip each child at St. Stanislaus to face the challenges and benefit from the opportunities provided by this technology.


About Comet Media Foundation:Formed in 1985, Comet Media Foundation
is an organisation based in Mumbai. Its activities involve creating
knowledge artefacts in film and print, distributing knowledge
materials, organising workshops and resource festivals. Comet's
work has won a number of awards, including the Jules Verne Prize of the
European Union, an international award given for outstanding efforts in
science communication.

Read more at www.cometmedia.org


Target Audience

The presentation is suited for alumni, teachers and parents of children studying at St. Stanislaus.

To help us plan for this meeting
please signup online using the link below or send an e-mail: bm@stanislites.org

Please do so no later than 28th
March 2008.

 

 

 

Breakfast Meeting Report

Report on the proceedings of SSESA Breakfast meetings

Using ICTs to transform St. Stanislaus

Vision 2013: St. Stanislaus High School – ICT-enabled by 2013, coinciding with the school’s 150th anniversary

Detailed presentations:
Getting the most out of Information and Communication Technology (ICT)

Part I

Part II

Background
St. Stanislaus is a leading education institution in Mumbai established in 1863. The school offers education from Kindergarten to grade 10 (SSC) and is affiliated to the Maharastra State SSC board. The school has focused on providing high-quality education to all sections of society, regardless of religious and economic background. With the increased use of ICT in business and society, the school is working to adopt ICTs as an educational aid to continue providing high-quality education for all.

Aim of Breakfast meeting
To expose parents, teachers and alumni of St. Stanislaus to the potential of Information and Communications technologies (ICTs) or "computers" and its role in education.

Conducted by
Comet Media Foundation - an NGO involved in spreading the use of ICTs in education www.cometmedia.org

Date: March 30th 2008 Venue: St. Stanislaus audio-video room

About 75 people comprising parents, teachers and alumni attended the breakfast meeting. The meeting commenced at around 11am with breakfast and the light conversation as parents, teachers and alumni got to know each other and explored the opportunities of working together. After breakfast the group moved to the A/V room which was already partially full. By the time the presentation commenced, the room was filled needing chairs and benches from adjoining class rooms - late comers had to participate from outside the A/V room.

At around 11.30am Fr Jude Fernandes, president of SSESA and principal of the school, welcomed the attendees and handed the microphone to Chandita Mukerjee, who leads the Comet team. Chandita had earlier collaborated with SSESA and alumnus Francis D'Silva (Class of 1977, now Norway) to create a presentation on the topic of ICTs in education (see links above for detailed presentation). The presentation set the stage for why ICTs are relevant for education and provided examples of how ICTs can be used in education. The presentation proposed a roadmap as to how St. Stanislaus could adopt ICTs in a phased manner, starting immediately and gradually developing a strong ICT capability by 2013.

To help get started, it was proposed that a taskforce “ICT@Stanislaus” comprising parents, teachers and alumni be formed; so as to pool resources on how best to drive this process.

The presentation ended on the note of having the “Yuva Vividha” mela that is scheduled for 1st-3rd May 2008 on the school grounds. A brief question and answer session followed before screening a film showing how ICTs are being used in education.

The film, created by Comet Media Foundation, is a source of inspiration telling the story of a simple teacher in the rural part of the Konkan in Maharashtra who is using ICTs to educate children for life. We will post details once the film is available on YouTube.

The film was followed by a presentation by Sapna Shahani who briefly shared her experience while using public radio in education and how the model can be easily and cheaply deployed in India.

The meeting was hosted by St. Stanislaus Ex-students Association (SSESA) and breakfast was sponsored by Vikram Moorjani (Class of 1985, now Los Angeles, USA).

The meeting concluded at around 12.45 pm

The road ahead:
the journey to heaven is paved with a few potholes…There are no short cuts.

  • Parents take a proactive approach in supporting the teachers, students and school administration in adopting the use of ICT’s

  • Teachers take active interest in re-calibrating/re-aligning their skill sets (pedagogical skills ) to exploit ICTs to the fullest

  • School administration to understand their responsibility in working with the authorities in providing funds and arenas for teachers-parents-students to learn and discover ICTs on their terms. To automate areas of administrative work that frees up time for teachers and students

  • and finally students! who are at the core of this effort - to be active particpants in shaping the solutions the school will provide, by giving creative and valuable feedback. Their understanding of this learning process is important - for parents and teachers.

Alumni can be catalysts, supporters and help push where required. The vast global alumni network of Stanislites is an invaluable resource to take this forward.

The key players above have specific roles to play if ICTs have to become a reality at St. Stanislaus. All will have to network and work together towards the goal of an ICT-enabled school for all.


If any attendees or alumni are interested in becoming a part of Vision 2013 team please drop us an e-mail vision2013@stanislites.org

Breakfast Meetings-Calender

This is an indicative but not final schedule of planned breakfast meetings and is subject to change. Please send suggestions to bm@stanislites.org.

Date Location Speaker Event Type Topic Description
25th November 2007 Museum Mr. Paul D'souza Breakfast Meeting Financial Planning for individuals Practical techniques for understanding risk and choosing an asset management strategy
8th January 2008 Museum John Serrao Breakfast Meeting Time & money management The balancing act
8th February 2008 Museum Dr Satish Arolkar Breakfast Meeting Health & Well Being TBD
8th March 2008 Museum Dr Ranjit Nair Breakfast Meeting Developing entrepreneurial skills TBD