Chandigarh 03 July (Harbans singh)
Ashmah International School, Sector 70 Mohali organised a Happy classroom workshop for teachers at its campus. A happy classroom is not just a space filled with laughter and cheer; it is an environment where students thrive, learn, and grow.
The workshop guided the teachers on how a happy environment can be created in the classroom, to make studies engaging for students. To promote the emotional well-being of students and teachers, the workshop was based on ways of keeping children’s minds focused on the task at hand, teaching them to live harmoniously with family and society and develop a holistic outlook and perspective of life.
The interactive workshop also aimed to help teachers realize the importance of pathways to happiness. According to the resource person, a happy teacher can only create a happy classroom. The teacher should leave all worries, anxiety and stress outside the classroom. Through discussions based on various real-life incidents, it was concluded that a happy classroom can be created through affection, respect, trust, conceptual clarity, sensitisation and practice to live in harmony with nature at large. One should understand the source of happiness and how to ensure its continuity. The teachers were told to lend an ear to every student and maintain effective communication and harmony in every relationship.
While speaking at this moment School principal Suchi Grover said that successful teaching is generally considered to require only 50% knowledge to 50% communication skills. As a result, a teacher should be proficient in all four modes of communication – listening, speaking, reading, and writing – and should know how to utilise this proficiency effectively in a school environment. Being able to do this has been proven to impact the success students achieve in their academic lives, as well as the teacher’s own career success.
