FOUNDER

Director Daphne Paulose did her schooling at :

1. Convent of Jesus and Mary – New Delhi 

2. Carmel Convent – Gwalior, M.P

She comes from a very disciplined background, her father having been an Air Force officer.

She obtained a Science degree in Chemistry, Botany and Zoology from Mt. Carmel College, Bangalore in 1972.

She completed a Bachelor’s degree in Education from M.E.S. Teachers’ College, Malleswaram, Bangalore in 1978. And then took her Master’s degree in Education from Bangalore University in 1982. After this she has continuously  undergone training in various pre-primary methods of teaching, she continues to be a learner even today.

A well versed Teacher trainer, with 45+ years of teaching experience, having taught at the pre-primary, primary, High School and Teachers’ training levels.   

She was the founder Principal of Ujjval Vidhyalaya, the Alembic Glass Factory School at Whitefield for ten years.   

She is the founder Principal of a reputed preschool by the name of HAPPY HOURS PRESCHOOL for the past 40 years. Drawing from her vast experience of teaching, especially preschool children, the syllabus has been designed to train teachers to enable children to proceed to primary school with ease, confidence and success. 

An integrated approach is followed, taking the best from the Montessori, Kindergarten and Nursery methods of preschool Teacher education to achieve this goal.  

The Teachers’ Training Institute was started in November 2004 and has completed 19 years. We have enrolled more than 3000 students so far, of whom more than 2700 have completed the course, all of whom have been placed in various schools in India and abroad.