Academics - Balyadhoon

My experience in postgraduate teaching

Visiting Faculty - I have been a visiting faculty for postgraduate teaching for the following courses:
- M.A. Psychology, S. P. College, Pune
- Post Graduate Diploma in School Psychology (Affiliated to Savitribai Phule Pune University), Jnana Prabodhini's Institute of Psychology (JPIP), Pune
- Education of the Gifted: Methods and Strategies (Now named as 'Psychology & Nurture of Giftedness') (Recognized by Savitribai Phule Pune University), Jnana Prabodhini’s Institute of Psychology (JPIP), Pune
Curriculum Design for Postgraduate Course - I was part of the team which designed the curriculum of the UGC-sanctioned innovative course ‘Education of the Gifted: Methods and Strategies’ at JPIP.

Designing the content and delivering a module on understanding the psychology of the gifted – for an online course on giftedness, prepared by TCS Ion and Educational Activity Research Centre, Jnana Prabodhini, Pune.
Creating Course Material - I was part of the team which wrote modules for the course booklets for the correspondence course in ‘Child & Adolescent Psychology; Enhancing Potentials’ by JPIP.
As an examiner - for the correspondence course ‘Child & Adolescent Psychology; Enhancing Potentials’ by JPIP.

I was a member, as an expert in Psychology, of the national-level ‘Syllabus-cum-Textbook Committee for the Foundational Stage’ under the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020. As a part of this, I worked with the National Council of Educational Research & Training (NCERT) in 2022.(Foundational Stage: age 3 to 8 years)

Paper Presentation: Presented a paper on ‘Enhancing Potentials in Early Childhood through Play’ at national conference ‘Beyond Horizons: Giftedness in 21st century’ conducted by Jnana Prabodhini’s Institue of Psychology (February 2013).

Presented a paper on ‘Training Parents to Identify and Nurture Giftedness in Early Childhood’ at international conference ‘Research in Education and Curriculum Planning for Gifted Minds’, organized by Jagadis Bose National Science Talent Search (JBNSTS), Kolkata, in 2014 in New Delhi.