Phonics Workshop

Workshop on Phonics

Ahlcon International School follows the ethos of continuous professional development of its teachers. Hence, various workshops are conducted exclusively for the teachers.

A workshop ‘Phonics – Accelerating the Children’ conducted on the 18^th of April’15 by Ms. Anju Mehta, Founder & President of EHI (Education and Health International). The workshop was attended by 25 teachers of the pre-primary department, 5 teachers teaching class 1 from primary department and Ms. Sunita Rajiv, AHM Pre-primary Dept.

The workshop was about how to teach phonics to children of the pre-primary and primary section students. It was a highly interactive workshop where the teachers participated with great enthusiasm. There were some group activities which were more like experimental ideas on how to teach phonics in a class with the help of different games and techniques.

Ms. Anju gave us an idea of how to go about teaching sounds at the initial stage. She provided a list of alphabets, diagraphs and diphthongs, that when taught in the specified sequence, could enhance the phonetic skills of children gradually.

She also gave a list of tricky words that do not follow the rules of phonics to be mastered by using Jolly Phonics videos or oral practice. The teachers pitched in with different ideas and activities that can be used in teaching and were also enlightened to great measures by the end of the workshop. As the workshop concluded, the teachers were presented with certificates by Ms. Anju Mehta.