Date: 27th August, 2022
Venue: Multipurpose Hall, St. Teresa Institute of Education
Name of Co-Ordinator: Dr. Cerena D’cunha
Total Number of Students and faculty: 110

Objectives:

1.To help better understand the problems faced by ourselves and the students.

2. The importance of life skills and how these life skills will help us to teach effectively.

The Seminar began at 1:00pm that was organized by Dr. Cerena D’cunha in the Multipurpose Hall. The resource person that conducted the workshop was Mrs.Sarla Lobo. Ma'am Sarla first spoke about success skills that help us in life. She created a positive and happy atmosphere in the class. This helped us be active at noon. She shared with us skills that will help us with a positive, knowledgeable and more creative environment in the classroom. She then went on to guide us about the stress that we face in our lives on a daily basis. An activity of vigorously shaking a soda bottle and a water bottle was done by her. Followed by our perception on what was the underlying message of the activity.

She gave us solutions to relieve stress through her slides and explanations. What made this section more interesting than depressing was that she was pointing out the places that we can help ourselves and that not only one but all of us are under stress at the same time. The next topic she touched upon was Leadership. In which she had a few of our classmates along with Natasha our General Secretary do an activity on leadership. The group were blindfolded while being brought in class and had to follow the leader's voice for directions. Which was done wonderfully without anyone having an injury by the objects placed. Ma'am then continued with her explanation using her slides. She made us believe that each one of us can be a leader by improving our leadership skills. The difference between a Boss and a Leader was made clear to us by her. We had an activity wherein there were two groups of girls positioned on either side of the platform placed in the hall. Those near the mic and those directly opposite to them were in one group and those near the projector screen were another group. Two girls, one from each group were made to sit on a mat and drag themselves to their members on the other end using the mat. This activity was so much fun as the girls went to and from

Emotions was the next topic that ma'am touched. She had an activity by programming emotions using facial expressions that were done by our sportingly active classmates. She not only gave us a few quotes but also a beautiful poem by Nidhi Mishra. She made us realize that we must not stagnate ourselves and get out of our comfort zones by speaking aloud the underlying meaning of one of my favourite songs "Pretty Woman" from " Kal Ho Naa Ho". Ma'am went on to giving us ideas of how to make studying more easy, enjoyable and fun for the students. She shed some light on the topic Critical thinkers and Reflective thinkers. She also did an activity here by calling two girls who are unmarried to wear a saree. And explained to those married why she didn't ask them to do the activity. For reflective thinkers she made us make articles that can be worn using paper and no scissors.

Last but not the least she spoke about communication skills and did the activity of story building. Piyadath our classmate was then requested by Dr.Cerena to give a thank you speech.