In the development of a society education plays a vital role. The holistic development of children of any nation is in the hands of teachers. School education has a symbiotic relationship with teacher education as teachers are the frontline providers of quality education.

Vidyaniketan always believes in quality education and tries to bring out the best in its students. With the paradigm shift in approaches to pedagogy with the implementation of National Education Policy 2020, the school has initiated a series of workshops for teachers to equip them with 21^st century teaching skills to help them meet the needs of the 21^st century learners.

Sri G Balasubramanian, former Director Academics, CBSE, formally began this year’s Academic Engagements on 2^nd June, with a session on ‘Future of Learning’, the first one in the series titled “Future of Learning, with G Balasubramanian". Mr Vijaikrishna Rajagopal, Director, Vidyaniketan Group of Institutions, and Ms Vasuma Achar, Principal, Vidyaniketan, addressed the teachers.

Known for his innovation in curriculum development and interactive pedagogy, Sri G Balasubramanian, has been instrumental in the introduction of several innovations in the CBSE curriculum which include Frontline curriculum, Communicative Approach to Language Teaching, Information Technology, Bio-technology, and Entrepreneurship to mention a few.

The day’s session mainly dealt with “learnability”. The focus was on a shift from directed learning to learnability. The key takeaways of the session was how to cater to multiple learning styles, how to use technology as a culture catalyst, how to transform and not merely change, and how to respond to the “new normal”. The need of the hour is the growth of every teacher in the right direction . Therefore it is necessary to focus on the following domains like information architecture, compatibility, sustainability and so on.

The first session ended with a resounding message, inspiring the student educators to embark upon an everlasting journey of learning, where they need to explore with the right mindset into the future, engage in reinventing themselves and evolve into true digital natives.