Details of Inspiring Teacher awards. Now happening on 2nd Oct

1. September 2010
Volume 4, Issue 9 Inspiring Teachers
Driving educational change through excellence in teaching
Now it’s easier to remember our website!
www.teachersacademy.co
The nomination process has closed and Teacher’s Academy has finalized a list of 35
Inspiring Teachers from as many institutions for the awards to be given on 5th September
2010. This time there is a good representation from colleges and schools, both mainstream
Pic above: A
and alternate systems. There are four lifetime awardees and some very young teachers. A
workshop in June
2008 at BIG THANK YOU to all the students and teachers who participated in the campaign and
Hyderabad made it a success. There were several nominations that came after the deadline and they
will be considered them for 2011.
Articles this Partners for the Teachers’ Day event
month:
Profile of TCSI ..2
Profile of
SchoolCanvas.com
….3
Profile of Teacher
Plus …4
Profile of Analyzers
Group ….5 1. Training Compliance Services
2. SchoolCanvas.com
3. Analyzers Group
4. Teacher Plus magazine
Read more about them inside
Editor’s Comments
This and the next one are special issues on Teacher’s Day@Academy. We are
carrying full profiles of the organizations that have partnered for the event.
And I am renewing my request for original articles or essays for the newsletter
and/or our website. These can be on theories of teaching and learning, any tips that
you have tried and found useful, or reviews of websites or books. Do not send just the
link, explore the site or the book and write a review in your own words.
There will be prizes and remuneration for these articles.

2. Inspiring Teachers Page 2 of 5
Training Compliance Services – A profile ..Madhav Saxena
A training and training education & training, solutions for managing all
compliance and validation research and analysis, aspects of training, audit &
company, ‘Training training validation, validation of training and
Compliance Services compliance, design and resourcing of training. We
(India)’ is into education, bench marking, IT product also undertake end to end
training, training & services, engineering & training projects, right from
evaluation, bench marking technology. The team has program creation to
and compliance and also in brought up TCSI to leverage implementation and to
Above: Teachers of related research and their experience and talent monitoring success rates.
MVIT in group work,
Feb 2009. consultancy. TCSI has for providing innovative TCSI offers Training Needs
Below: MEd Students expertise in the latest end-to-end solutions in the Analysis (TNA), Instructional
at IASE, Osmania
University at the end of training techniques and field of training and Design, Job Analysis,
a 3-day workshop in methodologies and compliance. Evaluation & Audits and
August 2009
validation practices helping TCSI helps organizations delivery of training across
its clients to take advantage define their training public and private sectors.
of current advancements in philosophy supported with a TCSI is currently performing
the field. The management training policy and, training validation for
team comprises of senior crucially, training Military College of Electronics
professionals with standards. TCSI offers and Mechanical Engineering
credibility and experience in comprehensive training (MCEME) across their various
centres.

3. Page 3 of 5 Inspiring Teachers
SchoolCanvas.com – A profile K Ramesh
SCHOOLCANVAS is the next generation professionals who have exposure to wide range
online school management software. of domains and technologies. Promoters were
This software designed to support involved in multimillion-dolor projects rollout
school management and teachers to in various domains including manufacturing,
reach next level of maturity. It is a finance, retail, energy & utility, telecom and
comprehensive tool to support in both embedded to wide range companies including
management and academics; highly Fortune companies.
customizable product designed to help In addition to high-end consulting services,
you in managing single/multiple schools company is developing suite of IT products in
Watch this video on
/school chains, where schools are academics and related domains. Company how life teaches
lessons that are not
distributed geographically. We designed rolled out its first online product in FY 2010 –
learnt in classrooms.
this product to serve schools across 2011. For more information on flagship http://www.youtube.com/w
atch?v=vHqFXQVEfKw
different states and administrator can product, please visit
govern in ‘Command & Control’ Mode. http://www.schoolcanvas.com . SR IT
It has built in support for all Consulting also offers its services on following
curriculums like CBSE, ICSE, State or areas:
even an autonomous syllabus. • IT Strategy definition
Administrator has complete flexibility to • IT Solution Architecture services
make customizations of your choice. We • IT Enterprise ARCHITECTURAL
have inbuilt support for inter / intra SOLUTIONS
school communications. Highly scalable • IT Portfolio management
SCHOOLCANVAS can accommodate. • IT Performance management
A unified dashboard helps the school • IT turnkey solutions
correspondent or administrator to take
• SAAS enabled products examples etc
LoL!
informed decisions. Dashboard shows
the status of all schools irrespective of
Teacher: Tomorrow
location i.e. schools may exist panning there will be a lecture
across different states. Administrator on Sun. Every one must
can implement school process with great attend it.
Raju: No ma'm! I will
ease in command and control mode. In
not be able to attend it.
addition, system helps in achieving all Teacher: Why?
regulatory compliances. Raju: My mother will
Brief note on the company: not allow me to go so
far!!!
SR IT Consulting promotes
SCHOOLCANVAS.COM. SR IT
consulting Private limited found by very
highly experience group of IT

4. Inspiring Teachers Page 4 of 5
Teacher Plus – a profile from teacherplus.org LoL!
Created in 1989, Teacher Plus is a team assisted by a wide network of writers,
magazine aimed primarily at the photographers and artists from across the
schoolteacher. It is a forum within country. The team combines editorial and
Classroom humour from
which teachers can raise their educational experience of several years and the internet to laugh out
concerns, discuss ideas, and share and works closely with teachers and teacher loud!—courtesy Prof KV
update their knowledge. Teacher Plus trainers to ensure that the content is relevant to Jayakumar
discusses alternative ways of thinking the Indian classroom. Our contributors have
and doing within the context of the ranged from teachers taking their first hesitant Both politicians and
Indian classroom, while recognizing steps into the classroom to seasoned educators diapers need to be
changed often and for the
the constraints that most teachers who have seen a wide variety of teaching and
same reason
face, day to day. In addition, its aim is learning contexts.
to foster a sense of community among Teacher: How old is
Usha Raman, the lead editor of Teacher Plus,
teachers, of being a part of an your father.
is a writer, editor and communications
important group of change agents. Sunny: As old as I am.
professional based in Hyderabad, India. She Teacher: How is it
Teacher Plus is published monthly has a PhD in mass communication from the possible?
from Hyderabad. It draws from a large University of Georgia, USA. Usha has over two Sunny: He became
pool of contributors from across India, decades of experience in journalism, father only after I was
persons with experience in varied born.
publishing, science communication and
aspects of education, from primary teaching. Her areas of interest include writing Teacher: Name the four
school teaching to tackling board
and editing special interest publications, seasons
exams to the place of art and craft in Student: Salt, pepper,
planning and executing communications
learning, to child development and mustard and vinegar
campaigns, particularly those involving aspects
classroom management. Each month
of health, popular science and technology, and
brings the reader a mix of thought- Q. What is a terminal
provoking features and hands-on teaching writing and media studies. She has illness
activities that can be adapted for use been part of the Teacher Plus team since its A. When you are sick at
inception in 1989 and took over as editor in the airport.
in most classrooms.
January 2007. For five years, she wrote a
Teacher Plus is not a scholarly journal. Q. What is a turbine?
column for The Hindu entitled “Career Quest”. A. Something an Arab or
It is a magazine for the practicing
She is also involved with the Centre for Shreik wears on his
teacher who wants to keep up with
Learning, an alternative education centre in head.......
trends in education and find ways to
Hyderabad. With this group Usha edits and
energise her classroom with new ideas And the last one!
publishes a journal on education concerns
and approaches. Q. What does the word
called Edu-Care. 'benign' mean?
The Teacher Plus Team
A. Benign is what you will
Teacher Plus is brought out, month be after you be eight
after month, by a small but dedicated

5. Page 5 of 5 Inspiring Teachers
Analyzers Group - A profile Harini Bhandaru, Managing Partner
Analyzers Group Provides competitive market. These training
Accounting and Financial Solutions programs have proved to be highly
to Individuals, Small Businesses and successful and effective in enhancing the
Teacher’s Academy Companies. It is into various motivation level and commitment of
services that help a participants.
Hyderabad firm/company/business to work
towards accurate Financial As a result of these interactions with
PHONE: Statements. We provide financial students we also developed interest in
97011 41118
statements, Bookkeeping services, improving the quality of teaching in colleges
management reporting, budgeting, and schools and have run the Super Guru
E-MAIL:
forecasting, financial analysis. Contest since 2009. This is our effort to
info@inspiring-teachers.com
recognize and reward talented teachers.
Analyzers Group concentrates
About Super Guru Contest
not only on financial and
accounting services but also on
This contest has three rounds. The first one
evaluating skills of students and
nurtures them to be confident to is about general aptitude; the second on
attend the interviews with ease. teaching aptitude and the final round is the
judges’ round. It is a very interesting contest
We conduct Mock Interviews,
and there is a prize and certificate for the
Personality development, People
See us at: Super Guru!
www.teachersacademy.co
Management and Soft skills
programs. All these courses are
designed to increase the ability of an
individual to face the tough and
Look forward to the next issue with the report of our Teacher’s Day
Celebrations and more articles!
Uma Garimella, Editor