Page 4 - April 2020

At the onset of US President's Donald Trump's arrival to India, City Montessori School (CMS) Founder and Educationist
Dr Jagdish Gandhi has appealed to PM Modi and President Trump to consult over the formation of World Parliament to save humanity from complete annihilation.
CMS GOES ONLINE APRIL 2020 (4)
Where learning never stops

CMS goes online to defy Corona

The impartation of knowledge never ceased at CMS despite the COVID-related to aid our students with help required means possible and online has been
lockdown in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic that gripped the entire world. to cover their syllabus and stay in the only solution for many of us.
CMS teachers are indeed frontline warriors busy carving a new future for their touch with their studies and Personally, I’ve learnt loads and I
students. The resounding feedback of our students suggests that they adore the curriculum. Thisrequired great
online classes as these offer them homestay and a school connection with their discipline and organization. Students
favourite teachers. Fun activities, music lessons, PE lessons, art and elocution took online classes with great zeal
competitions, library work, counselling work, spoken English classes, parent-teacher and enthusiasm while teachers
meetings, etc. are being carried out alongside the regular teaching of mathematics, ensured active participation of
science, history, geography and civics. We present here a glimpse of, and some views students by facilitating discussion and
about the work being carried out online at every CMS campus.
virtual teaching methods during
online classes.
Mrs Taruna Mehta, English and of this time by rendering online A CMS Kanpur Road teacher explains Vowels to students
History Teacher for classes IX and X, teaching to the students so that they online
Ms Sidra Naqvi, IT Co-ordinator, CMS
CMS Station Road Campus: could be engaged in some productive Jopling Road Campus: think that goes for everyone involved
work. in this mass online teaching
We are socially distanced yet virtually
As the mother of a CMS student also, connected through Google experiment.
I would say that this initiative of CMS Classrooms, Zoom Cloud Learning
going digital has empowered all. It Sessions, Tata Class Edge teaching Ms Protibha Ghosh, Maths Teacher,
has helped us to focus on our material and aids. By such integrated CMS Kanpur Road Campus:
strengths and abilities and inspired us collaboration, the school has given its Teaching an online class has actually
to stretch our limits.
CMS Station Road Campus students in a Zoom class students the opportunity to enhance given us an opportunity to create a
more engaging, interactive
This shift from the regular classes is Ms Shanara Khan, English Teacher, experience for our students. We are
actually very interesting for the Cambridge Section: taking full advantage of the available
teachers as well as students. Yet, this After some initial hiccups, which I technology – Checking out
type of teaching is no different from faced only during my first online class, educational videos that can be shared
the regular one. The students are directly with students that help them
able to clear their doubts face to face to understand the concepts. Self-
on Zoom App. The best part is that explanatory videos or audios are
syllabus can be taken up further so prepared, that are then sent to
smoothly in such difficult students to help them with the topics
circumstances. , taking online video conferencing
meetings with students using Zoom
Ashish Durgapal, student of Class XII, Cambridge Section's virtual classroom app so that the students can directly
CMS Aliganj Campus I: I understood that in these difficult ask their questions and clear their
Zoom classes are realistic, easy to times we need to adapt to changes, Pre-primary kids go creative in lockdown doubts and fill worksheets carrying
understand, convenient for proper learn skills which we thought we different level of questions including
interaction and questioning, and HOTS through Google Classroom or
could never master, and ensure that
there is provision of proper notes and Whatsapp broadcast groups.
our kids don’t lag behind
homework given.
academically due to the lockdown.
With time, and with the help of tech- Mrs Mamta Tewari, Teacher, CMS
Mrs Zeenat Khan, English Teacher, savvy colleagues, I too have Rajajipuram Campus I:
CMS Aliganj Campus I: The students are now very well
developed my skills and all my classes
The online classes are very interactive go seamlessly- right from Class VIII to adjusted to the online sessions which
and keep you involved throughout have the atmosphere of a regular day
Class XII.
the session. I got the opportunity of at school with children attending the
evolving, bettering myself as an Mrs Malini Srivastava, Teacher, CMS classes in their uniform. The school
educator and participating in a Rajendra Nagar Campus II: prayer is a regular part of it. The
technological revolution that the It seemed a boon to be able to work Hands on Mathematics for CMS Jopling Road students children can get answers to their
educational community is witnessing, from home and use the Zoom App queries. The teachers are addressing
thanks to the prestigious interaction with their classmates and every issue and even monitoring their
and Google Classrooms to continue
organization, CMS. instructors by engaging them as in a
normal Classroom.
Mrs Deepali Saxena, Teacher, CMS
Aliganj Campus I: Mr Anjan Ghosh, Teacher, CMS
The Google Classroom is an excellent Kanpur Road Campus:
platform for us as teachers, since it We at CMS are using exemplary
allows us to share documents related methods to reach out to our lifelines
to the topics and share links from the that is, our students, in the current
internet, which in itself is an ocean of Salad Making on World Health Day scenario for which we were hardly
ideas and facts.
the teaching process and make the
best use of time too. The children are
also enjoying the new digital classes An online class of CMS Rajajipuram Campus I
in the comfort of their homes. The homework. Even the school
parents too are happy that the counsellor is seen talking to the
studies are not hampered and children in this difficult period and
initiatives are taken by the teachers.
An outpour of parents' compliments for CMS Kanpur Road has been trying to keep their spirits
teachers high. The music classes and the
Ms Lovey Khan, English Teacher, CMS
Story telling session for students of CMS Aliganj Campus I prepared. With the use of new
Anand Nagar Campus: technologies, including Google
Looking at the severity of the Classrooms, Zoom Cloud Meetings,
Mrs Reema Sethi, Teacher, CMS situation, we realised the urgent need Videos, Worksheets, Broadcast
Rajendra Nagar Campus III: groups and Tata Class Edge online,
As Joel Osteen during one his shows great enthusiasm was witnessed in
said, during difficult times, we are not the students in understanding and
supposed to quit believing and we are
learning the contents.
not supposed to quit growing. The
trust of the CMS Management in Mr Amit Tiwari, Mathematics
their leaders, teachers, students and Teacher, Junior Section, CMS Kanpur
parents have brought about a Road Campus: CMS Rajajipuram Campus I online
technological revolution in the city of Throughout the Coronavirus crisis, library periods that are organized in
Lucknow. Suddenly, the focus has the evenings are a source of
the priority has been to deliver the
shifted towards making the best use relaxation and learning.
lessons to students by whichever
Studies must go on - come what may!
"Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive,
go much further than people with vastly superior talent." —Sophia Loren