Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Educare, a CBSE school offering value-based free education located at Nemilichery, Chrompet, organized a Seminar on ‘Value based Educational Governance’ for School Principals on October 15th 2016, exclusively catering to the call for implementation of Value based education in schools. More than 80 school Principals, Vice-Principals and management authorities in and around Chennai schools participated in the seminar.
Sri Mahesh D. Dharmadhikari, Regional Officer, CBSE, Chennai region who was presiding over the presentations of Value Based Leadership, stressed the importance of all teachers of all schools becoming ideal leaders in their own right.
Dr. V.S.Vishnu Potty, Vice Chancellor, Sri Chandrasekarendra Saraswathi Viswa Mahavidyalaya, Kanchipuram accepted the invitation to be the chief guest and inaugurated the seminar. In his address, he stressed that only the values learnt by the students in class room are remembered forever and not the subjects.
The seminar’s theme was fragmented into three key domains – Value Based Leadership, Value Based Human Resource Development and Value Based Decision Making, in which, around 12 Principals from top schools in Chennai delivered their respective presentations.
The second session of the seminar on the theme – Value Based Human Resource development was presided over by Dr. R. Kishore, Correspondent & Sr. Principal of St Johns Group of schools, Chennai. In his address, he elucidated that values can never be taught, but can only be caught. He also added that all schools should strive to include maximum opportunities in their educational activities to integrate the value aspects in all possible ways.
Dr. Bhavani Shankar, Principal, Omega International School, Kolapakkam presided over the third session of the seminar titled Value Based Decision Making. In his presidential address, Dr. Bhavani Shankar expounded the various aspects of Value based decision making by narrating his own personal experiences as an educationist and the challenges he faced. He further stated that value based decision making is the only need of the hour in the educational domain in this 21st century. Dr.Kalai Arasi, Principal, Institute of Advanced Study in Education, Saidapet was the chief guest during the session.
Smt. K. Saimeera, Principal, Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Educare gave an eye-opening presentation on implementation of value based education at the host school.
Prof. N.Shanmugam, educational advisor of the school, former Educational officer, Kendriya Vidhyalaya Sangathan, gave an inspiring talk on the theme – Look Back to Look Forward.
The seminar came to an end with the valedictory function, presided over by Dr. K.V.S. Gopalakrishnan, IPS (Retd.), Secretary, P.S.Educational Soceity, Mylapore and Dr. Mrs. Uma Sivaraman, Deputy Commissioner, Kendriya Vidhyalaya Sangathan, Kerala Region, Ernakulam as the chief guest. In his presidential address Dr. Gopalakrishnan narrated inspiring stories from the life of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa and Swami Vivekananda arriving to the point that Indian culture was a reservoir of values and value based way of life. Dr. Uma Sivaraman praised the management of the school for organizing the seminar which is very much indispensable for all school governance in the present day scenario and wished all success and greetings to the participants. The Seminar came to an end with proposal of vote of thanks and National Anthem.
Dignitaries during the inaugural function (from left:1.Smt. K.Saimeera, Principal, SSSIE 2) Prof. N.Shanmugam, Education Officer(Retd.), Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan & Educational Advisor SSSIE3)Sri Mahesh D.Dharmadhikari, Regional Officer, CBSE, Chennai Region, 4)Sri P.Kumarasamy, Correspondent, SSSIE. Address by Sri Chief guest Sri Vishnu Potty Vice Chancellor, Sri Chandrasekarendra Saraswathi Viswa Mahavidyalaya, Kanchipuram
Address by Seminar President Sri Mahesh D Dharmadhikari, Regional Officer(CBSE), Chennai Region
Address by Chief guest Sri Vishnu Potty, Vice Chancellor, Sri Chandrasekarendra Saraswathi Viswa Mahavidyalaya, Kanchipuram
Address by Seminar President Dr.R.Kishore, Sr. Principal, St. Johns group of schools
Address by Chief Guest Smt. Vidya Srinivasan, HOD, Dept. of Human Resource Management, D.G.Vaishnava College, Arumbakkam
Address by Seminar President Dr.Bhavani Shankar, Principal, Omega International School, Kolapakkam
Address by Dr.Kalai Arasi, Principal, Institute of Advanced Study in Education, Saidapet
Address by Prof. N.Shanmugam, Education Officer(Retd.), Kendriya Vidyalaya Sanganthan & Educational Advisor, SSSIE, Chromepet
Address by Seminar President Dr.Sri K.V.S.Gopala Krishnan, IPS(Retd.), Secretary, PS Educational Society, Mylapore
Address by Chief Guest Dr. Smt.Uma Sivaraman, Deputy Commissioner, Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan, Kerala Region
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