Floppy’s phonics workshop at RIS

Islamabad

Roots Academy for Professional and Intellectual Development (RAPID) organised a workshop on Floppy’s Phonics in Collaboration with Oxford University Press as a part of Teachers Continuous Professional Development programme, says a press release. More than 50 teachers of Montessori and Junior schools from Rawalpindi, Islamabad and Wah Region participated in it.

The workshop was organized by keeping in view latest research results, there is a direct correlation between a child developing strong phonemic awareness skills and becoming a highly successful reader. Workshop enabled teachers to understand the progressing levels of phonemic awareness instruction.

 Sessions conducted by Azka Khan (Master trainer OUP) were highly interactive which enhanced teachers’ depth-of-knowledge about essential reading-readiness skills of critical importance as well as multisensory activities to engage young children to hear sounds and patterns in words.

The impact of training will help unlock every teacher’s potential to achieve greater success in the classroom. Roots International schools have a committed team of curriculum leads who are finest chosen practicing teachers of the system.

RIS believes in achieving high standards of quality and delivery of creative and innovative curriculum. The professional teachers act as inspectors, mentors and trainers throughout the academic term by continuously visiting and evaluating the teaching and learning standards of the respective teachers and students. A teacher training is integral component of RIS. Academy for professional and intellectual development remains engaged in conducting workshops for teachers throughout year as we strongly believe that only quality teachers can breed quality pupils.