Profile: Sandhya Sitaram

Current Positions

• Director, Zeal Educational Services Pvt. Ltd, Ahmedabad
• Associate of Generation Next Learning Systems, Bangalore
• Senior Consultant to Ceon Solutions Pvt. Ltd, an IIMA associated software company, Ahmedabad
• Consultant and Teacher Trainer in Anandniketan School, Ahmedabad
• Head, The Children’s Computer Club, Ahmedabad

Core Competencies include

• Entrepreneurship Development and Management
• Corporate Training in Computers
• Training Marketing and Sales Professionals involved with educational products
• Training Teachers in Identifying Multiple Intelligences
• Training Teachers in the use of the Process Approach to Learning – the approach used by leading B-Schools in the world
• Training Teachers to effectively use the i-school software developed by Ceon Solutions
• Training at different levels Effective Communication Skills
• Training Teachers in Computers In Education and Computer Education
• Conducting and Managing a variety of fun workshops for children and adults in Maths, Science, Computers, Programming, Communication Skills, etc.
• Designing content for Educational Software
  

Curriculum Vitae

Date of Birth - 25th Nov. 1961
Address - D-81, Sahajanand Apartments, Near Sterling Hospital, Gurukul, Ahmedabad-380052, Gujarat, India

Telephone - 91-9824038938
9179-40027461, 9179-40036565, 9179-40027461, 9179-40036565

Email:sandhya.sitaram@gmail.com

Occupation
2003 – Current
Director, Zeal Educational Services Pvt. Ltd., Ahmedabad.
Consultant to International Schools

Experience and Activities
Conducting training and demonstration programs for teachers for implementing the ‘Third Way’ – Explore, Discover and Learn methodology.

• Conducting Teacher Interaction Programs in schools, focusing on pedagogy issues, communication skills, lesson planning methods, the process approach implementation and motivation
• Helping Schools set up Mathematics Laboratory and training teachers for the same
• Designing Evaluation and Certification Programs for Computer Literacy and Computer in Education relevant for teachers
• Designing Computer Literacy and Mastery programs for Teachers and designing skills evaluation for Teachers

Schools worked with:

• Anandniketan School, Ahmedabad
• Atul Vidyalaya (ICSC), Valsad
• Oxford International School, Dhaka
• H.B.Kapadia School, Ahmedabad
• Kansagara International School, Rajkot
• Rajkumar College, Ragkot
• J.G.International School (Cambridge), Ahmedabad
• Amrit Vidyalaya (Gujarat Board), Kaalol
• Pranava, The School, Hyderabad
• Zydus School for Excellence, Ahmedabad
• Udgam School, Ahmedabad
• Divine Child High School, Mehasana

Associate of the organization Generation Next Learning Systems – Affiliate member in Gujarat

• Marketing the educational material in Mathematics developed by 10on10 all over the state of Gujarat
• Training Marketing and Sales professionals in Marketing, Selling and developing Communication Skills

Parent and Student Counselling

I specialize in one to one parents and students counseling

Work being done with children

• Conducting Workshops for school students in Science(I Love Science) and Maths (I Love Maths) using the Process Approach .
• Organizing workshops in Model Rocketry for children
• Organizing and conducting workshops for the Talking Club for children in order to help them communicate fluently and effectively

1993 – Current: Children’s Computer Club

• Treating each child as an individual and facilitating self paced learning through many fun filled activities
• Making children use the computer as a tool to explore various skills
• Identifying Multiple Intelligences among children and consciously developing skills that may be lacking

Teacher in Computer Programming

Training in a personalized manner, 10th, 11th and 12th standard students, Engineering and MCA students programming languages like C, C++, Visual BASIC, and Pascal.

2001- 2002 Aurina Education Ahmedabad
Educational Software Consultant

• Designed and tested the content of 86 computer-based activities for very young children. The title of the software is “Hasta Ramta Shikhiye” and is currently marketed and sold by Aurina Education Company

Corporate Training

• Trained employees of GCMMF in the use of computers
• Trained several Bank Managers in the use of Computers and MS Office

1991- 1993 NIIT Ahmedabad

Senior Faculty and Technical Head

• Joined as Associate Faculty and was involved in teaching COBOL, C, C++ and Unix
• Got promoted to Senior Faculty within 6 months
• Got promoted to Technical Head after a year
  
• 1990 - 1991 BITS Ahmedabad

Senior Training Executive

• Was involved in teaching COBOL, C, DBMS and System Analysis and Design to Managers of Gujarat State Fertilizers Ltd

1989 - 1990 ACT Ahmedabad
Computer Teacher

• Was involved in taking computer practicals for students
  1989 - 1990 ACT Ahmedabad

Computer Books Writer

• Was involved in writing computer books for Rachna School

1984 – 1986 M.E.S College Bangalore
Lecturer in Zoology

• Was involved in teaching Zoology to B.Sc. and Pre University Students

Education

M.Sc. (Zoology) with Rank I and Gold Medal from Bangalore University in 1984
Diploma in Computer Science from Academy of Computer Technology in 1988

Entrepreneurship Development from ICECD

Interests

I enjoy challenges and

• working with students and interacting with people at all levels
• convincing people to take the right decisions
• teaching computer programming
• extremely interested in understanding how students learn
• Indian classical music
• reading
• sports like cricket, tennis and badminton
• painting in the impressionist style