FDP 2025
Faculty Development Programme 2025
📅 Date: 13th May 2025 | ⏰ Duration: 8 Hours | 📍 Division: Pre-Primary
Facilitator: Ms. Sreevidya
NHPS organized a full-day Faculty Development Program on Differentiated Learning for the Pre-Primary division, aimed at equipping educators with strategies to address diverse learner needs in the classroom. Facilitated by Ms. Sreevidya, the session focused on understanding learners, tailoring instruction, and designing inclusive classroom practices.
🔹 Key Focus Areas:
• Understanding the meaning and purpose of differentiated instruction.
• Identifying learner needs and preferences.
• Differentiating instruction through content, process, and product.
• Applying differentiation using
◦ Learning styles
◦ Multiple intelligences
◦ Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy
• Hands-on Activity: Geometry Tiered Assignment (group work).
• Exploring tiering strategies and their importance.
• Compacting content without compromising learning outcomes.
• Classroom Management in a differentiated setting.
• Use of choice boards and extension menus.
◦ Dinner Menu
◦ Tic-Tac-Toe
◦ Bloom’s-Gardner Matrix
This FDP served as a valuable platform for teachers to explore practical strategies in differentiated instruction, fostering inclusive, engaging, and effective learning experiences for all students.
Faculty Development Program – Progress in the Early Years
📅 Date: 14th May 2025 | ⏰ Duration: 7.5 Hours | 📍 Division: Pre-Primary
Facilitator: Ms. Sreevidya
NHPS conducted a Faculty Development Program titled “Progress in the Early Years”, focused on enhancing early childhood education practices. Facilitated by Ms. Sreevidya, the session guided educators through effective assessment techniques, observation strategies, and ways to support holistic development in young learners.
🔹 Key Focus Areas:
• Encouraging tasks that allow multiple solutions.
• Ensuring visuals and graphics are child-friendly and recognizable.
• Designing themes based on children’s real-life experiences.
• Understanding questioning techniques.
◦ Closed-ended questions – For factual, one-word responses.
◦ Open-ended questions – To spark imagination, and creativity.
• Creating and using student portfolios – purposeful and meaningful collections of student work.
• Exploring assessment tools.
◦ Checklists, Rubrics, Rating Scales
• Observation techniques
◦ Objective Observation (capturing authentic moments).
◦ Video-based observation to reflect on teacher roles, materials, and classroom dynamics.
• Distinguishing between description, interpretation, and evaluation in observations.
• Using guiding questions for focused observation.
◦ Purpose, focus, detail, duration, and target.
🔹 Interactive Activities
• Matching learning areas with relevant visuals.
• Identifying accurate observation practices.
• Final activity: Reviewing various assessment methods and selecting appropriate ones.
This session empowered educators with tools and strategies to better understand, observe, and assess young learners, thereby supporting meaningful progress in early education.
Faculty Development Program – AI Tools in Teaching Pedagogy
📅 Date: 15th May 2025 | ⏰ Duration: 5.75 Hours | 📍 Division: All Staff
NHPS conducted an insightful FDP on “AI Tools in Teaching Pedagogy”, focusing on how educators can leverage AI to enhance teaching effectiveness. The session emphasized the shift from passive to active learning and introduced a range of AI tools to support lesson planning, assessment, and student engagement.
🔹 Key Focus Areas:
• The Learning Pyramid – Highlighted the benefits of active learning strategies like group discussions over passive methods.
• AI in Education – Emphasized AI as a supportive tool, not a replacement for educators.
• Introduction to practical AI tools
◦ Lesson Planning: Magic School AI, Canva, QuestionWell.
◦ Assessments: QuestionWell, Pickaxe.
◦ Classroom Visuals: Gamma, Magic Slides, Canva, iDream.
◦ Creative Projects: Suno AI (songs), MeTeacher AI (animations), Dream Machine (videos).
◦ Interactive Teaching: Curipod, chatbot tools.
This session empowered teachers with digital tools to make learning more innovative, engaging, and student-centered.
Faculty Development Program – Introduction to Cambridge Books and Assessment
📅 Date: 16th May 2025 | ⏰ Duration: 4 Hours | 📍 Division: Pre-Primary
NHPS organized a focused FDP on “Introduction to Cambridge Books and Assessment”, designed to familiarize educators with the Cambridge curriculum and its experiential learning approach.
🔹 Key Focus Areas:
• Experiential Learning – Emphasis on hands-on activities that encourage exploration and expression.
• Literacy and Language Development – Strengthening early literacy through interactive experiences.
• Creative Arts – Using art to promote creativity and emotional expression.
• STEM Integration – Introducing STEM concepts through playful, age-appropriate tasks
• Skill Development – Enhancing thinking skills, group collaboration, and scientific reasoning.
• Holistic Growth – Integrating reading, writing, arts, and STEM to support well-rounded development in early learners.
This session helped educators align their practices with Cambridge’s child-centric and inquiry-based approach to foster holistic early education.
Faculty Development Program – Effective Lesson Planning (QASDC)
📅 Date: 16th May 2025 | ⏰ Duration: 3.25 Hours | 📍 Facilitator: Ms. Kosha
The session focused on Effective Lesson Planning, emphasizing the importance of aligning teaching strategies with child development principles to create meaningful learning experiences.
🔹 Key Highlights
• Understanding the five key areas of child development: Emotional, Social, Physical, Language, and Cognitive.
• Setting clear and realistic learning objectives for each lesson.
• Selecting activities that align with learning goals.
• Effective use of teacher cards and instructional resources.
• Practical approaches to assessment planning.
• Tips for smooth classroom management during lessons.
This program equipped educators with essential tools to design structured, engaging, and developmentally appropriate lessons.
Faculty Development Program – Communicative English Skills
📅 Date: 19th May 2025 | ⏰ Duration: 3 Hours | 📍 Division: Pre-Primary
Facilitator: Ms. Veni Sukumar
The FDP on Communicative English Skills, conducted by Ms. Veni Sukumar, was designed to enhance teachers’ language proficiency, classroom communication, and student engagement techniques.
🔹 Key Focus Areas:
• Icebreaker activities for building comfort and rapport.
• Public speaking techniques: Overcoming barriers, using voice modulation, gestures, and expressions.
• Active listening and giving/receiving constructive feedback.
• Confidence-building exercises through peer interaction.
• Classroom-ready strategies for boosting student engagement.
• Focus on guiding children in story creation using characters, settings, dialogues, and morals.
• Hands-on tools and group discussions to share teaching practices.
• Emphasis on developing children's speaking and expressive language skills.
This interactive session empowered educators to communicate more effectively and guide students in developing essential language abilities through storytelling and creative expression.
