Toshita Mani

Concerned citizen, Educator/Teacher, Life mentor

General Information - An Indian national from the north-western hill region. Education - Schooling from All Saints' College , Nainital (Uttarakhand) - Graduated from Lady Sriram College (New Delhi) - Post Graduation from Garhwal University -MBA -B. Ed ( Isabella Thoburn College , Lucknow) Experience -17 years of teaching as an English teacher across curriculums like ICSE,CBSE,MYP, CAIE -Teaching creative writing, theatre,public speaking - Organising school events

The integrity of the word. I feel easy acess to tools has made it possible for a word or a thought to be to be used even when the user has no context of the word or the thought. The communication in that sense loses integrity because the reader ends up making an estimation of the writer which is not authentic. It is ironic that in the age of communication , the lead player is sabotaged. As an English teacher I find myself working backwards- for the students the word comes first.... so honest use has to be built.

The impact of the context being virtual ,education being customised,work being mechanized the world being polarized and humanity being de-sensitised.

Adaptability, Assessment and Evaluation, Class Mangement, Direction and production, Educational Technology, Intercultural Competance, Playwriting and Creative Writing, Reflective Practices and Teacher Cognition, Syllabus Design

Heard my first Ted Talk several years back- Do schools kill creativity? by Sir Ken Robinson. Truth be told,I delightfully chanced upon it and was drawn to it as a person who believes in the tremendous power of the creative arts. Apart from the insight and the advice it did give me a few satisfying laughs. Now I use it in class to prepare the students for an essay paper...so it's largely for school.

That's a hard one to answer; I coud very well be struggling with what I am good at.Having said that, the easy answer is writing prose to start a thought and sketching