Ms. Nandita Tewari

Ms. Nandita Tewari has acquired an interesting and diverse experience after she forayed into education thirteen years ago. She is expert of innovative inclusive education. She is a firm believer in teaching the way students learn and offers an exhaustive repertoire of strategies for all kinds of learners in the classroom. She has been instrumental in curriculum designing based on ‘backwards by design’ and ‘concept based learning.’ She studied History in BA Honours from Lady Shri Ram College and then did her Masters in Business Administration. Re-orienting her priorities in life, she did B.Ed in Special Education from Jamia Millia University, specialising in Learning Disabilities. Her desire to acquire pedagogical expertise led her to pursue a PG Diploma in Learning Disabilities, culminating in a M.S. (Multi-disciplinary Education) from State University of New York, USA, specialising in EAL, Gifted and Talented and SEN interventions. She has been a speaker for innovative pedagogy at the Asia Pacific Leadership Conference in Hong Kong. She is trained in IB English Language and Literature and currently pursuing action research in approaches to teaching and learning in the IB Diploma programme. As the Curriculum group chair for EAL teachers among all secondary ESF schools in Hong Kong, she has been sharing her own perspective, learning and experiences in her classroom by way of organising sessions for Education Bureau of Hongkong and other international school teachers in HongKong. She is also listed as a certified test assessor in the British Psychological Society, London. She has also worked at the American Embassy School, New Delhi and the Dekalb County Schools, Georgia, US.