GRADUATION DAY PART 1

GRADUATION DAY PART 3

GRADUATION DAY PART 2

GRADUATION DAY PART 3

Yuva Hindi Sansthan Online Summer Program 2020 by Ashok Ojha

YHS ONLINE HINDI PROGRAM || PARENTS’ ORIENTATION JUNE 20, 2020

DAY 1 : NOVICE

DAY 2 : NOVICE

DAY 1 : INTERMEDIATE

DAY 3 : NOVICE

Please watch this authentic video, 'Malgudi Days', authored by famous author R. K. Naryan. The serial portrays the life of 'Swami', a young student, and his friends. Heritage students can learn about life in pre-Independence days of India. Going forward we will share more video links about other episodes of 'Malgudi Days'.

After watching the video you may do the following activities. Your parents may help you by doing these activities. :

1. Retell the highlights of the story in your own words.

2. Students can role play the characters in the story.

3. Students can compare and contrast the lives of characters in the story with their own life in the USA. Use a Venn Diagram for this activity.  

Please write to us if you have any questions by email:  yhsbensalem2012@gmail.com

ASHOK OJHA, YHS PRESIDENT AND DIRECTOR OF PROGRAMS

Ashok Ojha is a New Jersey based journalist and teacher, where he manages two non-profit organizations, Yuva Hindi Sansthan and Hindi Sangam Foundation, both dedicated to promotion of Hindi language in USA and beyond. Well-versed in national standards and best practices in curriculum instruction appropriate for US schools, Ashok is a K-12 certified teacher for social studies.

SANJYOT TATKE, MASTER TEACHER AND LEAD INSTRUCTOR

Sanjyot Tatke, an experienced Hindi teacher, has been associated with STARTALK students programs since 2011. After receiving STARTALK Teachers Training at Kean University she served as an instructor at YHS STARTALK since 2011 and SANGAM-FRANKLIN STARTALK programs. Sanjyot is a team player who coordinates professional development workshops for all teachers and collaborate for developing classroom material including activities and worksheets for students in the target language. In the past years Sanjyot attended a number of STARTALK conferences and workshops where she learned new teaching strategies to share with her team. In 2019 she led a team of instructors at the STARTALK regional workshop at College Park, MD. Sanjyot is also serving as the Treasurer, Yuva Hindi Sansthan.

ANJU RAI, INSTRUCTOR

Anju Rai joined Sangam-Franklin STARTALK HINDI Program in 2019 as an instructor for heritage learners, grades 5-8. She easily develops close bond with her co-teachers and a productive relationship with her students. She says, “I design activities that engage learners in the class as they produce new language. I take extra care providing differentiated teaching for needy students.

My strategies for effective teaching are based on STARTALK sponsored principles. I provide comprehensible input in Hindi and move on to guiding students through varieties of activities in the three modes of communication. While engaging my students in performance activities I keep in mind to provide information in chunks, scaffold language input and move on to Gradual Release of Responsibility.” Anju received her teachers training at Kean University in 2015.

AKHILA SEKHAR, CULTURAL INSTRUCTOR

Akila Sekhar serves as YHS Secretary. She has been associated with Yuva Hindi Sansthan and Hindi Sangam Foundation programs as a Cultural Coach and Associate Teacher for the past five years. Akila is a great organizer of events and a team player who helps organize Annual Hindi Diwas and reunion events in addition to STARTALK programs successfully.

SHEEMA VASHISHT, INSTRUCTOR

Seema Vashisht is an experienced teacher of Hindi. In 2019 she joined YHS STARTALK Hindi Program in North Wales, PA and SANGAM-FRANKLIN STARTALK HINDI PROGRAM, Franklin Township, NJ. " As a teacher I helped young learners engage in varieties of performance activities in the three modes of communication. As I helped improve their proficiency in Hindi I learned to modify my teaching strategies”, she says. She effectively applies the STARTALK principles and ACTFL guidelines in her classroom teaching.