18th March, 2023: Social Emotional and Ethical Learning workshop was organized on March 18, 2023 at 9 a.m. 2023 at Dickey Tsering hall. The school director, teachers and non-teaching staff of all three sections, Mcloed Day school and principal’s office attended the workshop making it a total of ninety-seven participants. The program was initiated by the school SEE Learning Committee aiming specifically to deepen the ‘ teachers’ understanding of the SEE learning framework and familiarizing them with strategies and ideas to make SEE Learning class an impactful one.
The resource persons for the workshop were Geshe Wangdak la, the school Tadrup Lopon, Mr. Tenzin Samdup, SEE Learning facilitator at Mewon Tsuglag Peton School and Mr. Kalsang Tsewang , SEE Learning facilitator at Upper TCV.
SEE learning is all about educating the heart and mind. It became vibrant a couple of years ago in TCV schools like other Tibetan schools in exile. It is proven to be the best life skill that this generation must be equipped with for the well being of self and others.
Following the introductory speech by the Principal, Mr. Tenzin Samdup gave a talk, emphasizing the framework of SEE Learning and how it is based around three dimensions -Social, Personal and System and how they incorporate the three domains – Awareness, Compassion and Engagement. He brought in his own success experience of teaching children SEE Learning principles in classroom as to motivate the participants.
After the tea break, the program was continued by the next speaker Mr. Kalsang Tsewang speaking on the benefit of having a well planned lesson sticking to the five learning experiences. He presented the sample lesson plan on Different Emotions. Making children know different emotions and recognizing their current emotion are the objectives of the lesson. Step by step, Mr. Kalsang la showed us how we can effectively make SEE Learning class productive and interesting. He added that teachers could incorporate SEE Learning concepts in their day to day lesson plan as a part of professional development plan.
Next was the insight activity, where the participants sat in groups of five and chose a topic from the list. Sticking to the five learning experiences, a lesson was prepared in each group and shared by the group representative. Interdependence, forgiveness, kindness, gratitude, mindfulness and creation of compassionate class were topics chosen for the lesson plan. After a quick debriefing, Mr. Kalsang la stated that the lesson demonstrations depict participants’ fair understanding of SEE Learning and their enthusiasm to implement them in classroom.
The next speaker was Geshe Wangdak la. He enlightened the participants about Secular Ethic by highlighting concepts like – appreciating interdependence, recognizing common humanity and compassion. Through examples and excerpts from His Holiness’s books and speeches, he reiterated how important it is to cultivate the powerful human values in the heart of young generation for a peaceful world as His Holiness the IV Dalai Lama advocates in his speeches and books.
Mrs. Nawang Lhamo la gave closing remarks by highlighting the key messages of the speakers in short. Gen la urged all participants to keep enhancing their knowledge on SEEL and secular ethic by reading books like – Ethics for a New Millennium, Beyond Religion, Seed of Compassion. She thanked all the facilitators for sharing insights into SEEL and attendees for their active participation.
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