INDU A. JOSEPH

To work in the education field and get an opportunity to engage with students of all ages and play a vital role in their learning journey. In turn this will also help build character and advance my teaching skills. I continue to seek challenges and add value through sincere and innovative effort for all ages. To seek and maintain full-time position that offers professional challenges utilizing interpersonal skills, excellent time management and problem-solving skills. Driven to learn quickly. Flexible and hardworking team player focused on boosting productivity and performance with conscientious and detail-oriented approaches.

• Children at play helped me understand and identify the importance of play in child’s cognitive and social development.
• A day in a child’s life helped in analyzing how the socio-economic status of a child affects his/her social position among his/her peers.
• How the Mid-Day Meal Program is an allure for children to come to school.
• Error Analysis proved to be extremely helpful in identifying a student’s thinking process when dealing with any subject.
• Project on Moral Development in Children helped gain insight into the developing notions of morality in different age groups.

• Participated in the school contact program in New Delhi where we observed teaching methodologies used by the teacher and the associated engagement level in the student.
• Closely observed the working of an innovative school in Jaipur, a city in India. We observed the amalgamation of John Dewey’s philosophy of ‘learning by doing’ and Rabindranath Tagore’s philosophy of ‘harmony between learner and his/her surrounding, society and nature’.
• Observed a primary school in New Delhi to understand the Teaching & Learning processes being followed.
• Examined the processes followed to help a school function by observing and interviewing the Principal and teachers in a Jesuit school in New Delhi.

• Focus on the mind and behavior of children from parental development through adolescence.
• Planning, Organizing and Managing a school. From curriculum development, creating schedules to setting exams to administration responsibilities.
• Gained an understanding of the basic concepts of education as illustrated by Jean Piaget, Maria Montessori, Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, John Dewey, Rabindranath Tagore and Mahatma Gandhi.
• Curriculum development to create positive improvements in lesson plans.
• Gained awareness on how gender influences education.