Shaista Ansari

• Render individual counselling to students of higher grades within the school.
• Conduct group sessions for students.
• Hold seminars for faculty training.
• Interact with parents to help them work with their children.
• Screening students to identify what SEN category they belong to.
• Assist The Special Educational Needs (SEN) department within the school.
• Guide students with respect to their career choices.
• Prepare presentations for students and staff on various topics to help them deal with a variety of issues.
• Chalking out the activities for enhancing mental health via presentations and lectures for the students.
• Maintain records of individual as well as group sessions.
• Drafting the various policies like Wellbeing, Behaviour policy, Safeguarding Policy for the school.
• Assisting the school administration in matters of misconduct of students and other challenges faced by the school.
• Providing services for the school’s safety and mental health.
• Consulting and seeking assistance with the outside agencies for support during an emergency.
• Supervising and training of SEN teachers
• Identify trends of problematic behaviour within the students to help them.
• Help students smoothly Transition from one phase to another.
• Managing the student council and their activities.

• Individual and Group Counseling of students.
• Providing Career Guidance.
• Supporting students with special needs with exam accommodations & creating ELP's.
• Creating an holistic link between Wellbeing, Behavior, Safeguarding & Inclusion.
• Policy Writing – Behavior Management Policy, Safeguarding & Child Protection Policy & Effective Learning Provision Policy ( All addendums post Covid as well )
• Assisting the school in writing SEF evaluation for the inspections.(SPEA & BSME)
• Coordinating Character Education Program and Moral Education Plan.
• Conducting workshops & training for teachers.
• Managing online wellbeing classrooms on Class DOJO, Teams & Google Classroom.
• Coordinating with outside agencies to provide complete support to students.
• Organizing workshops for parents & teachers on relevant topics
• Preparing Material for Weekly Form Tutor Time.
• Contributing regularly to School Newsletter and editing Inclusion Newsletter.
• Running transition programs at various levels.
• Provided crisis intervention in response to emergencies, employing existing trust and rapport to deescalate situations.
• Organizing programs for spreading awareness of various issues like Bullying, Disability Acceptance, etc.
• Maintainining positive relationships with students, faculty, alumni and administration.
• Used data to monitor students' progress and recommend solutions for improvement.
• Creating links with local & international universities to provide admission guidance to students and providing continuous support to students with needs in this area.
• Organizing external workshops for students to prepare them for applying to universities abroad.
• Managing community advancement projects with Student Council.
• Creating links with NGO's to encourage community service by providing opportunities to students.
• Established various new projects like E-safety Awareness, Gadget free hour etc.
• Reviewed and discussed new students' academic credentials, interests and educational goals.
• Developed new student orientation programs to build excitement around transfer and enrollment.
• Gathered necessary paperwork and applications for students to initiate enrollment process.

• Facilitator for conducting special needs awareness workshops called PRIDE workshops in collaboration with Emirates NBD.
• These are workshops at various levels - Schools, Colleges, Centers and Multi Nationals.
• Conducting regular in-house training for special educators at Manzil to improve the programs for the students.
• Handling the Social Media along with Marketing and Fund Raising Projects.
• Editor for the Monthly Newsletter.
• Acting as a management Consultant.
• Counseling students with learning difficulties and physical disabilities.

• Managed parent relations and conducted workshops & counseling sessions.
• Counseling students with behavioral problems.
• Assessments.
• Conducted group counseling sessions on various life skills and character-building topics for the students.
• Encouraged innovation, creativity and proactive talent.
• Trained teachers for classroom management and interactive learning.
• Head of the Special Needs and Counseling Department along with the special educator.
• Designed educational and counseling modules for children with ADHD, low self-esteem, and also on teenage education.

Additional Role : High School teacher

• Taught high school students of IGCSE, ICSE& IB curriculum the following subjects.
• Business & Commercial Studies.
• Economics.
• Psychology.

Provided remedial session to students with learning difficulties.

Communicated with school teachers and understood the areas to work with the child.

• Working in cross-functional team of Homeopathy Doctors and Counselors handling psycho-neuroticcases.
• Working on the Patient History.
• Provided psychological assessments and counseling consultations to clients.
• Worked on a project co-relating psychological interventions along with homeopathy.
• Worked on a project to increase the customer satisfaction and maintain customer relations., Provided extra help to children with learning difficulties through home remedial sessions.