Faculty Member - English - Senior School

Mrs. Elizabeth Johnson is a Post Graduate in English Literature from Barkatullah University, Bhopal. She also possesses a degree in Education from the same university. She has also perused the Trained Teacher’s Certificate course from the prestigious St. Mary’s College of Education, Allahabad before she stepped into the noble field of teaching and learning. She has recently completed the basic research studies for earning a doctorate in English Literature.

She brings with her a rich experience of teaching English language for more than 15 years in reputed convent schools of Bhopal and Nagpur. She also has an exclusive understanding of teaching English Literature to undergrad and post grad students. Besides this, she has been a BEC (Business English Communication) Trainer to students taking the BEC an ESOL exam of the Cambridge University at the Preliminary and Vantage levels. She has also been appointed as a Paper setter and Evaluator for Special English and Communication skills by Makhanlal Chaturvedi National University for Journalism for their undergrad and post grad courses.

Creative writing in the form of Material Writing has been her passion. She is associated with the IGNOU, Bhopal for their Course development as a free lancer and has written two lessons on Communication skills for their Diploma Courses on Hospitality and Tourism Management.

As she is ardently interested in Guidance and counseling too, she shoulders the responsibility of being a house parent to the IX standard boys engaging them in a spectrum of activities. She is perpetual learner making attempts to integrate the best teaching practices into her repertoire.

Faculty Member - Business Studies and Accountancy – Senior School

Senior School Gaurav has Masters Degrees in Commerce, Economics and Education. He also has post graduate diploma in Business Administration and Global Sales & Marketing. He chose teaching inspired by his parents, who are educators and academic administrators.

He has taught the complete spectrum of commerce subjects for close to a decade. He has contributed in areas such as pastoral care and value education in his previous assignments. He is an ‘ANO’ of NCC and will be initiating the NCC programme at OIS.

Mr. Gaurav is the Facilitator of the Commerce stream and also in charge of scheduling and academic planning.

Faculty Member - Physical Education and Yogic Sciences - Entire School

Faculty Member - Yogacharya

Faculty Member – Mathematics - Middle and Senior School

Mr. Bheem Reddy has completed his Masters in Mathematics with distinction. He did his Bachelors in Education and served as a Lecturer and tutor of Mathematics in a renowned Junior College of Hyderabad. He has extensive experience in teaching for Intermediate and for the competitive entrance examinations for IITs and AIEEE.

Having studied in a value based residential school in Andhra Pradesh; he is seriously concerned about integrated development of children.

Faculty Member – Apprentice Faculty Member

Faculty Member - Swimming - Part Time

Faculty Member - Fine Arts - Whole School

Mr. Chandrashekar has a Bachelors degree in Fine Arts from Chitrakalaparishath, Bangalore and also holds a Post Graduation Diploma in Computer Applications (PGDCA) from Madurai Kamaraj Open University, Madurai. He has undertaken many creative assignments in design and publicity for many organizations including some of the leading corporate. He has won many prizes and honors in painting, sketching and clay modeling.

He has extensive experience for close to two decades in industry and academics. He has exposure to graphics and animation software packages. He is a fine and gentle teacher who can evoke the creative side of children and nurture their talents well. He is the founder teachers of the OIS and Facilitator of our Aesthetic Center. He has been anchoring the “Kalaprakash”, which provides scope for each child to explore his or her talent in a natural manner once a fortnight.

A special Art, Craft and Technology workshop has been facilitated by Mr. Chandrashekar on Sundays, which enable the children to develop asthetic skills.

Faculty Member - Chemistry

Faculty Member – Mathematics, Arts and Crafts – Junior School

Mrs. Kalpana Vaghela has been working as a teacher and educational administrator in the Junior School for more than two decades in Schools of Gujarat.

She is also keen in development of artistic abilities through crafts.

Faculty Member - Arts & Crafts - Primary & Middle School

Mrs. Chandana holds a Diploma in Screen Printing Technology.  She is an expertise in activity based art and craft classes.  She has been able to develop the skills of Canvas Painting, Warli Painting and Glass Painting in students of all levels during the Value Added Classes.  She is the founder teacher of OIS.

Faculty Member – Primary Section

Ms. Kiran Uppal holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Arts. She has taught Hindi and other subjects to primary school children for some years. She is one of our house mother’s taking care of the boys of junior school in the hostels. She contributes in innumerable ways to the development of children, including teaching them crafts on Sundays. Her motherly presence in the hostel as well as in the school provides the children the affectionate warmth that they require. She is passionate to imbibe in children good work culture. She provides a rich and diverse exposure to children in the hostels and organizes many assembly presentations based on what has been taught to them.

Faculty Member – Classical Dance - Whole School

Ms. Krutika Palsetia is an Indian Classical dance Teacher with specialization in Bharatanatyam. She has passed Madhyam Purna Exam of Bharatnatayam classical dance with distinction. She has also passed “C” Certificate in NCC Army wing. Apart from Bharatnatayam, she has deep interest in Indian Folk dances like Garba, Gondhal, Jogva, Kolidance and Bhangra. She has been able to generate in children an interest in classical dance.

Faculty Member – Chess - Part Time

Mr. Madhav Chavan is working as a Chess coach. He is Master in Business Administration in Finance field. His interest in the game makes him a good coach. His earlier epperience counts for one year as an Asst.Accountant.

Faculty Member – Pre Primary Section

Mansi Dash is a holds a Bachelors degree with History and Sanskrit from Utkal University and has also completed her Pedagogy and spoken English course. She is a trained Montessori teacher and has a keen interest in areas of craft and swimming. She uses play-way method to make learning enjoyable for pupils.

Faculty Member – Junior School

Mrs. Manpreet is working as an Asst Teacher in Junior School. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Commerce and has 2 years of teaching experience IB School. She holds a Government diploma in Dress designing. She is an adept at imparting activity based learning making the atmosphere full of fun in class. She like reading novels that gives impetus to life.

Faculty Member – English and Music - Middle and Senior School

Faculty Member – Environmental Science – Primary & Senior School

Mr. Niteen has a post graduate degree in English from Pune University and also holds a degree in Education. He was involved with Intel’s Teach for the Future programme. He has experience in conducting teacher-learning programme (TLP) and has successfully led many workshops. He uses innovative techniques including drama for curriculum transaction in English.

He is in charge of the examination cell of our school. He is the class teacher of middle school and is interested in films. He has keen interest in critical appreciation of films and he is also In-charge of the nascent Film Club in our school. He assists the Principal in coordinating and organizing the Teacher Learning Programs during the beginning of each term.

Mrs. Nividita Adhya holds M.A. and B.Ed. degree in Music. She has been teaching Hindustani classical music to children at home and in school for more than a decade. She is one of the Class teachers in primary school also teaching them social sciences and English. She looks after the smaller girls in the junior girls’ hostel as the house parent.

Faculty Member - Arts and Craft - Whole School

Faculty Member - Chemistry and Computer - Primary and Middle School

Mrs. Prabha Singh has completed her M.Sc. (Chemistry) and B.Ed. She has been teaching chemistry, Mathematics, Environmental Education and Hindi in the primary and senior schools. She is keenly interested in understanding the difficulties of the slow learners and provides such children an affectionate space for learning and growing. She also teaches “Origami” to primary school students.

Faculty Member - Carpentry - Whole School

Mr. Pravin Hire completed his NTC and NAC apprenticeship in ITI, Satpur, Nashik. He has been working as carpenter in various companies for more than five years. He was self employed and running his own shop of furniture.

Mr. Pravin Hire passed All India Trade test (NTC) in Carpentry Trade in July 1995 conducted by National Council of Vocational Trading under Ministry of Labour and Employment, New Delhi.

Faculty Member – Commerce - Senior School

Mr. Mitraji retired as an Accountancy and Commerce teacher of College students in Andhra Pradesh. Due to his interest in J. Krishnamurthy’s educational outlook, he joined the Rishi Valley School (Krishnamurthy Foundation of India) about 10 years back. He served as a faculty member of Commerce, Accountancy, Business Study and Economics. He joined our school recently as a Specialist Resource person and Managing Committee member.

Faculty Member – Pre Primary Section

Faculty Member - Hindi

Faculty Member - French and English - Middle and Senior School

Mrs. Saniya S. Ramani has a Post Graduate degree in English. She also holds a Bachelors degree in French and Psychology from the University of Pune. She is qualified with many certificate courses in English and French.

She has an extensive experience in facilitating Spoken English for adults as well as children. She had been selected to attend a special-one month training program conducted for teachers (Primary Teacher Education Program) in Dubai by the ‘Aga Khan Foundation for Education’ during December 2010.

Faculty Member - Chemistry - Middle & Senior School

Mr. Satish Suryawanshi has completed B.Ed. and is pursuing M.Sc. (chemistry). He has 3 years experience in teaching chemistry to students of high school and secondary classes.

Satish is interested in experiments and activities being used as effective teaching learning aids. He has been making attempts to initiate children to raise and pursue questions of scientific nature so that they develop a better understanding of the natural phenomena.

Faculty Member - Skating - Part Time

Mr. Shashikant More is a Skating Coach. He is from Hot Wheels Skating Club established in 2005. He has a good experience having worked in the various institutions and clubs like Woodland Nandini, Eagle Badminton Hall, Kadam Lawns etc.

Faculty Member - Environmental Science and Mathematics
- Middle & Senior School

Ms. Shraddha Suman Singh has recently submitted her doctoral thesis on “Studies on Plant Diversity of Kuwana Forest Region,” to the Department of Botany, University of Lucknow. She has published various research papers in different journals. Apart from teaching Biology, Environmental Science in our school she is also teaching mathematics to the Junior School children, which she names as her first passion.

Siba Narayan Dash has received B.A. (Honors), B.Ed., M.A.(History) from Utkal University, Orissa and M.Sc.(Geography) from Madras University.
He has taught social studies at Akal Academy, Barusahib, Himachal Pradesh and B.K. Birla Centre for Education, Pune for more than 16 years. He has taken the additional responsibility of House parenting of Grade 11 Boys and is a Convener of Menu Committee. He has extensive experience in conducting examinations.

Mr. Dash is the Facilitator of the Social Sciences Department. He takes steps to make the teaching of social studies effective for students. He has been efficiently contributing Guess papers for ICSE and ISC Boards.

Sindhu is a first-rank holder in Marathi from University of Pune. She was awarded Gold Medal by University of Pune for her academic achievements in Marathi. She uses appropriate methodologies to help pupils imbibe the essential language skills in Marathi.

She has experience in teaching Marathi at school and college levels. She has published many literary articles in some of the leading Marathi dailies.

Mr. Sunil Kumar Upadhyay is working as a Hindi and Sanskrit Teacher. He has a M.Phil. in Sanskrit and holds a Master’s Degree in Sanskrit, Rural Development and B.Ed. He is appearing for his M.A (Final) in Hindi. He has a rich and diverse experience of teaching Hindi and Sanskrit in both C.B.S.E. and I.C.S.E. Schools. He is a student and scholar of Sanskrit tradition and conducts pujas in school with the involvement of children.

Faculty Member - English, Environmental Science and Integrated Science
- Primary School

Suparna has worked close to decade-and-a-half in schools of repute in Nashik. She has held both academic and administrative responsibilities in her previous assignments as well as at OIS. She is a trained Montessori teacher.

Faculty Member - Hindustani Classical Vocal - Whole School

Ms. Sushma Dani is a Hindustani Classical Vocalist and Music Teacher. She has completed her M.A in Music and also holds a Master’s in Sociology. She has been teaching music to students for more than a decade at home and in music schools of Nasik. She continues to learn from her guru at Nasik.

Faculty Member - Hindi - Senior School

Mr. Tripathi holds a post graduate degree in Hindi from H.N.B University, Garhwal. He has worked in Rishi Valley School and CIRS, Coimbatore for nine years. He has taught IB students for a semester at CIRS, Coimbator. He has attended workshops of the IB Programme in Hindi and is currently pursuing his Ph.D. from RML University.

He is an experienced language skills facilitator in Hindi to pupils of non-Hindi background at the Primary and Junior levels. He is the Facilitator of the Indian Languages, including Hindi. Being a scholar and poet he has been able to generate a certain kind of interest in children towards creative writing.

Faculty Member - Hindi – Primary School

Ms. Vaishali is a Post Graduate in Marathi from University of Pune. She has also pursued a degree in Education and an M.Phil.in Marathi from Yashwantrao Chavan Maharashtra Open University. She is an eloquent writer of Marathi poems. She has done her Diploma in Computer Software Technology.

She uses many innovative methods including story telling for developing language skills in Marathi & Hindi among her students. Teaching for her is more passion than a profession. She considers teaching as a vocation and for the love of children & the joy of teaching. She keeps immense patience with children and her classrooms are fun filled and lively.

Faculty Member - English - Primary School

Mrs. Vandana is having over 15 years of experience teacher of primary school. She specializes in teaching English and Peace Education to the little ones.

She is the In charge of the Junior school library and is associated with Value Added Classes wherein she teaches the little once innovative dishes without using gas stove. She has also been a hostel parent in her previous assignments. She is the house parent of the Class 10 boys.