Vanita Thakur

Passionate Teacher with background in devising creative lesson plans, adapting teaching styles to cater for diverse classrooms and implementing modern pedagogical techniques. Strengths include strong communication skills, adaptability, and zeal for fostering a positive learning environment. Previous roles have contributed to improved student engagement and increased academic performance.

• School of Biological Science Travel Grant Award, University of Canterbury, New Zealand.
• New Zealand Commonwealth scholarship for PhD (NZ aid program)

• Qualified teacher Science (Teacher Eligibility Test Himachal Pradesh, India)
• Teacher registration Application status (New Zealand) : Pending (subject to complete Teacher Education Refreshment Program)

• Supervised undergraduate students for their degree projects (2011 -2018)

• 2021 - Online certificate course in R " The basics of R (For ecologists): R for Ecology school.
• 2021 - Online Certificate course in R "Introduction to data visualization in R " (For Ecologist).
• 2019 - Genomic Data Carpentry workshop organised by Genomic Aotearoa, University of Canterbury, new Zealand.

      Introductory Data analysis workshop using R, 

      University of Canterbury, New Zealand.

• 2018 - Participated in 32nd Fungal Foray organized by Fungal Network of new Zealand (Lake Moana).
• 2015 - participated in 2 Faculty development programs at St. Bede's college Shimla.
• 2011 - DBT sponsored training-cum-seminar in molecular Biology techniques, Shoolini University of biotechnology and management Science, Solan, India

• High efficiency in computer skills/literacy
• Experienced in demonstrating experiments in various subjects of Science in school/college set up
• Experience in using Statistics for research data mining and analysis

• English
• Hindi
• Punjabi