Junior Centre

Rajani is the coordinator of the Junior Centre. She has taught English, Business Studies and Economics. She is passionate about Math and believes that it is a life skill.
She is a tutor on the SLD and PIE courses offered by Brindavan. She believes that there is a solution for every so-called problem or difficulty. She firmly stands by – “let‘s see what can be done; and not be pulled down by what cannot be done.”

She is an enthusiastic trekker and an avid reader.

Janaki conducts informal assessments at Brindavan Junior Centre, Jayanagar and at the after-school remedial Centre at Seshadripuram.
She has been part of the Brindavan outreach program, which involved overseeing the setting up and functioning of a resource room in a mainstream school, The Bhavan Bangalore Press School at Chamrajapete.

Malathy teaches English and Social Studies at Brindavan Junior Centre. She is also the co-coordinator of Junior Centre. She firmly believes that encouraging children to ask questions helps in building their thinking ability. She is of the view that a teacher teaching children with special educational needs should be willing to learn, be flexible to change his / her strategies, be firmly compassionate and have a sense of humor.
She is an avid reader, blogger and finds strength in her spiritual journey.

Anitha is Manager – Accounts and Administration. She handles the accounts of Brindavan, manages assessment appointments and appointments with trustees and coordinators. Anita is a practical person with a terrific sense of humour and has picked up several aspects of special education by observation!

Archana teaches English and works towards understanding children with special educational needs and helps them in skill development. She is open to new ideas and thoughts, and tries to implement them.

Ashok – Manager, Operations

Ashok is a super networker, coordinates with all centre heads and makes sure everything runs smoothly. From organising events to managing supplies to repairs and  maintenance coordination, he’s the invaluable go-to person that makes the centre function on the ground.

Chinmayi is a teacher at the Brindavan Junior Centre and handles math and social science.

She believes that teaching is an invaluable contribution. And that it is immensely satisfying to help a child learn skills to become an independent and confident adult. She aims at making the learning process experiential and fun. She enjoys conducting activities and games for children. Apart from school, she takes private maths tuition for students of grade 5 to 10.

Jayashree has taught concepts in Science, Math and English. She has taught Political Science to the SSLC batch and puts in effort to make the subject fun and interesting through innovative and creative methods of teaching. She uses drawing extensively in her teaching. She thinks every child has the potential to learn and it is important to adopt strategies to tap this potential.

Besides teaching, she enjoys organizing events. She enjoys listening to classical music, cooking and craftwork.

Malini teaches English, concepts and math by adapting lessons and creating teaching tools. She comes with a strong belief that a firm hand coupled with affection works wonders on the learning curve of a child. She is a strong advocate of early childhood skill based education with structured reading and writing programmes.

Paramacharitha does skill development and concept teaching in Brindavan Junior Center. She believes in encouraging children to their fullest in order to nurture their confidence to achieve independence in their life. Besides this, she loves to travel.

Rekha always knew that her calling was to work with children with SEN. She loves to be amidst nature and the mountains, and is passionate about her work, reading, and writing.

Srividhya teaches concepts from subjects such as Science and Social Science at the Junior Centre. She likes to teach kids to assimilate facts through visualization and unconventional techniques that will enable them to be independent and understand the world around them. She emphasizes on kinesthetic learning, which provides experiences that stay planted in the minds of children. She believes that the combination of counselling skills, working with children with special education needs and working with experts at Brindavan, have helped her in enhancing the skills of the children. Besides teaching, she enjoys nature, art, fashion, culinary arts and travel.

Uma has taught Home Science and Business Studies to secondary students at the Senior Center for 5 years. She currently does academic skill development and teaches Mathematics and Concepts of science and social studies using a project-based learning method for students at the Junior center.

She believes that art and craft are an outlet for expression and creativity that enhances learning. She enjoys reading books and going on treks.

Vidya teaches economics, political science and functional math at our junior centre. She also has several years of experience in teaching business studies for NIOS. She is a friendly and approachable teacher; and is willing to learn. Her special skill is teaching using analogies, which makes learning fun for children.

Yashaswini teaches language development skills and Math to children in the Junior Centre. She loves to keep updating herself with different strategies that would benefit children, especially in Math. She has been doing differentiation in Math which is based on each child’s functioning level. Differential learning in math has been a small attempt to remove the math fear and make the child try and progress with math concepts at their own pace. She enjoys the process of learning (for herself) and implementing the learnt strategies with children.

Her other interests are reading, going treks, singing, and listening to music in all genres.