Joy of Learning Foundation

Organize Workshops in your School or Community

We conduct online and offline workshops on various science topics for children, student-teachers from B.El.Ed and B.Ed colleges, teachers from middle school to senior secondary school levels. We can customize the workshops according to your requirements. Workshops offered by JLF will be counted towards the mandated 40hr of professional development by CBSE.
Kindly contact us for more details.

Creation of content

• JLF has been designing sessions on specific topics of science since its inception. These are then tried, tested and refined with a diverse group of teachers in independent workshops, where people participate upon invitation.
  You can collaborate with us to design sessions in physics, chemistry, biology, environmental science and mathematics.

Designing and creation of such sessions involves the following
A. Research
B. Field testing

Partnering with Schools

JLF intends to develop partnerships with some specific schools, for the sake of consistent engagement with a fixed set of science teachers. This can have the following benefits:

1. It provides us an opportunity for a complete feedback loop. Teachers are first asked about their needs, sessions developed accordingly, then tested with them. Teachers are encouraged to apply ideas from the sessions in their classrooms, and come back with feedback on efficacy and applicability.
2. It provides opportunities to reach innovations to the classroom level, to children and their usefulness and practicality in classroom situations can be gauged
3. Possibility of observing long term impact on classrooms is opened up with consistent engagement
4. Consistent engagement build a culture of learning of the kind that is envisioned by JLF. Culture building is a long term process, which also requires willingness of the partners- school principals, teachers and children.
5. It allows JLF the opportunity for documentation of proof of concept
6. The evolved sessions can slowly take the shape of a repertoire of topics in science that have the potential to develop as threaded courses for in-service science teachers over time. This whole process can be seen as the process of development of such courses.

Some of the schools that we have collaborated with:
1. Prakriti School, NOIDA
2. DAV, Gurugram
3. Bluebells, New Delhi
4. Heritage Xperiential, Gurugram
5. Heritage Rohini
6. Nanakmatta School, Uttarakhand
7. Klorofeel School, Odisha
8. Alpha Montessori School, New Delhi
9. Sketches Montessori, NOIDA
8. and several others...

Government / Private Institutions

Although, our mode of operation will largely remain the same for either kind of institution, since the government institutions have a potential for wider reach, we have offered workshops and training programmes for teachers of the following government & private institutions:

1. SCERT, Tamilnadu
2. SCERT, Delhi
3. DIET, Delhi
4. DIET, Haryana
5. SCERT, Sikkim
6. SCERT, Rajasthan
7. Tamilnadu Model School Society
8. IIT-Kanpur
9. IIT-Delhi
10. Sri Aurobindo Society, Delhi and Puducherry
11. Directorate of School Education, Puducherry
12. Royal Society of Chemistry
13. I Am A Teacher, Heritage Xperiential School, Gurugram
14. Schools under the purview of Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL)
15. B.El.Ed. and B.Ed. Colleges affiliated with the University of Delhi
16. Satyam College of Education, NOIDA

Short courses for teacher-educators or master trainers, have been customized as per the need of government institutions.

Courses for practicing teachers

To upgrade teachers' conceptual understanding as well as practical exposure we have designed several forums to provide in-service teachers with an opportunity to learn deeper nuances of science, in a holistic manner, through systematic design of courses.

These courses have provided consistent engagement, coupled with a lot of peer learning. In order to truly learn something one needs to unlearn and relearn a few things; challenge the existing beliefs and provide a safe atmosphere to do all that. Courses can provide that kind of atmosphere without the fear of being judged or mocked. Since we all learn things at different pace, continuous engagement with a topic as a group provides every participant the time to concretize learning in a structured environment with a logical flow of ideas. Through these courses we also aim to build a community of people who have lived through this experience of learning science and are encouraged to generate a similar culture in their classrooms.

We have conducted a 40-week online course, Revisit Science with JLF, for nearly 50 teachers across the country. This course was a series of 40 webinars including topics from physics, chemistry, biology, environmental science and the specific pedagogy for each topic.