Name of your school:
Changangkha Middle Secondary School, Thimphu
Yoeseltse middle secondary school Yoeseltse
Yangchen Gatshel Lower Secondary School, Thimphu Dzongkhag
Khasadrapchu Autonomous School Thimphu Bhutan

Your elective teaching subject:
Biology, Chemistry and Environmental Science
biology with health and physical education
biology and Health and physical education

Would you like to share any new approaches taken to plan and teach a GNH-Infused Curriculum in yo...
we conduct guided meditation session every morning during assembly
I make my students to meditate for a wile before I start my lesson. I don't have GNH value in every lesson. When I feel I infuse it n talk on it beside my actual teaching.
We have one period strictly allocated for teaching Life Skills, so some GNH values are taken care through this lesson.
1.Green lunch to foster interpersonal relation. 2.Teaching at Dratshang building community vitality
share the good conduct of one student with others. Give emphasis to work that is done colaboratively.
we need to infuse GNH values in any co-curricular activities or events carried out in the school.
I try to use different strategies beyond the GNH values which can help them understand better. like kagans strategy
- Practice mindful by stacking the chair under their table when they leave their table. Picking up the bits of papers or rubbish from the floor as soon as they see and put in the bin.
The English new curriculum for classes IV to VIII are divided into themes which are all value based and all the texts have GNH values integrated.
An element of gnh is added in each lesson
We have GNH committee in our school to monitor about areas that are similar in this questionnaire.
May be NT went well as m doing through cell phone....
we identify the GNH values related to the topic and then we infuse them in our daily lesson plans.
Trying to infuse GNH values wherever the curriculum demands and extracting the values out of songs, stories and jokes, when needed.
Student has to be taught to visualize how Bhutan should be in 10 years time from now.
GNH values are infused through teaching but apart from that our school also has sharing of changes brought by GNH in the school, class and individual level every Friday during morning assembly. In addition to that we also have captains speaking on GNH eve
I guess normal classroom teaching itself is GNH because we teach our students with various activity and method but it depends on teacher to teacher teaching.
Presentation in the class asking students to contemplate gnh values
Tuesday is the value day where a teacher speaks one of the Virtue and all students write about it and display on the value board.
mostly we do meditation before starting a lesson.
Although the concept of infusing GNH values in teaching has come as wonderful concept it is difficult to practice in reality. The heavy content matters developed by curriculum developers and mandating teachers to complete the syllabus in stipulated time-f
Our school has a small column for us to reflect our GNH value to be infused while teaching a topic in the lesson plan book planned by us together in a meeting.
I get students to share what values they have learnt by jotting them down in their journal on a daily basis. They share their written thoughts with the whole class the following day. So, each day two children get the opportunity to share with the whole cl
Let students understand the core value of school being academically green, culturally green, spiritually green, intellectually green.
In the middle of lesson if they feel bore and sleepy l let them to do WALKING MEDITATION (walking mindfully)...If there is any work related to classroom such as cleaning, sweeping, gardening l use the word KARMA YOYA (doing work mindfully) instead of work
While GNH Values were made necessary to be put in lesson plans....there are also Life Skills where we have to write in our lesson plan book. ( I don't know who made us write but it's mad "a must".)
We don't spell out all the values that we teach through our lessons to our students.
there is nothing new, we follow the one which we were trained with.
guided reflection at the end of lesson only possible sometimes due to time constraint
yes by teaching through varieties of teaching techniques like using audio visual aids.
lesson related to life experiences and true stories
Based on the immersion program, we integrate different subjects and specify the GNH value in focus
The GNG values in the school is taught through a system - VOW (Virtue of the week) with the creation of zero period. The resources are fed with the similar materials as scheduled.
There is no new approaches to teach GNH values but it is being taught anywhere or anytime when the situations arise.
Planning to use corporative teaching strateg, project work, problem solving, etc.

Would you like to make any other comments on the specific physical resources or structural factor...
Teachers and students should be provided with resources so that the higher authority can demand any thing from us in future.
The department, Identifying the Possible GNH Values in every subjects under their department and reflecting in the common action plan developed by that department. also Identifying the required materials in imparting the values
Spacious classroom or less number of students ( about 25-35) could be best to carryout experiment in groups, for group management, for cooperative learning and of all for effective teaching with infused GNH values.
I felt in Dzongkha most of the literature are based on the GNH values. it was revised and integrated.
If every classroom has technologies to support classroom teaching, we would get enough time to discuss on GNH values and also would be easy to incorporate in the lessons.
Creation of greeN school, green class rooms and green psycho social learning environment
Although we have classes well furnished, the practice of shift system poses a challenge in enabling the classrooms 100% conducive to learning.
school needs enough teaching learning materials in order to have a conducive learning environment for students.
Very less resources and trainnig for gnh curriculum
we have functional water taps in the school. we also conduct evening prayers and for that we have prayer hall.
School have enough resources which are all GNH infused curriculum.
We need very spacious classroom with less than 30 students.
Since i have joined the school recently, therefore i cannot exactly comment on Questionnaire 7.
Firstly schools need to be equipped with a good library fit for class 9,10,11 and 12 and teacher resource books. Giving 1 , 2 days workshops and few hours orientation on the topic and asking a teacher to be a buddha on that topic would only confuse the ch
Since ours is an urban school we use the other resources in and around schools. Like the national literary, textile museum etc.
we have limited space for effective teaching as the classrooms are over-crowded. so our classrooms need to be made spacious and number of students should be less.
better infrustructure in terms of spacious classrooms brings conducive learning atmosphere
resource person should be needed in each school
the school should have the portraits of their majesties installed on a grand structure to promote the loyalty of the kings.

Would you like to add any other additional notable interpersonal factors that may influence or im...
School management needs to have strategic plan and process in the place to infuse GNH in the school, which should empower teachers by providing leadership roles, built a strong system to review and GNH practices monthly
the authorities should be highly motivating for influencing teachers who further implement GNH in classroom teaching.
we donot receive much support from parents
I am not sure of the support the school received in the past because I have been in the school for only 3 months. However, the school principal conducts GNH workshops for the teachers.
Teachers and stdennts treat each other well after gnh awareness
Teaching has to be done sometime by another teacher to get them the understanding of different person have different views even though content is same. The knowledge of Individual difference has to be inculcated to the students from early childhood.
We need to filter some contents from our present syllabus...so that we can equally give importance to both academic and GNH values...It will be much more productively delivered to learners..
Questionnaire from 5-16 are not really sure to respond to as i was not briefed if we are doing as required or as put in the policy. however, i am sure it must be in the school policy. nevertheless, the school policy requires and the teachers infuses GNH v
I have chosen the 'agree' button but I think these questions would be best answered by the managers of the schools
I am unsure about most of the statements above. But one thing is certain that I never came to know about the visit of any outside personnel in the school esp. on GNH- Infused Curriculum.
GNH must originate from the grand parents right from the upbringing of their grand children
so far the school didn't receive any particular support to promote GNH in the school but may be in other forms there could be some support given.

Would you like to state any other personal perspectives or your belief system or experiences that...
I find it bit difficult to infuse GNH values in subjects like Chemistry and Biology. However, Environmental Science is very appropriate for that.
Having clear process defined in the school to infuse GNH and empowering teachers with responsibilities, trainings and material
I believe parents' interference is crucial to instill GNH values in our students or children.
GNH values can be taught in all classes.
At the end of the lesson, children learn more than just the book knowledge , they practice values
The heavy work load of teachers discourage us from effective GNH-infusion in curriculum.
There are some teachers who never received any PD on GNH. For instance, I am one. When we do not receive such PD programmes, we lack certain required skills to address GNH.
I can't say anything for now as I am new in the profession.
Since i have not received any training or workshop on GNH therefore, i reckon its paramount to give training to every teachers so that they can infuse values in their teaching.
If practiced properly it would bring big change in children in their manner and academic achievement too.
If students know too much about a teacher ( esp. if a teacher has a bad past) .... it can/will influence the taught GNH-Infused curriculum in the school.
It is not possible to achieve all the goals of GNH but we can focus on few which are important/relevant. for instance, most of the Bhutanese people lack civic sense. so we can instill that in our children, who will later become responsible citizen, whichs
the present syllabus that we teach has to be changed as the syllabus too heavy and at the same time it is not infused fully the gnh based. thus syllabus should be made by infusing GNH in it.
Bhutan being GNh country, it is always important to promote GNH-oriented curriculum so that children understand better about the concept.
to influence the GNH school should formulate other group of students separately.
GNH is all about the human happiness by living a contended life. it is also changing the mindset and disciplining them through a systematic process. such concept and implementing it practically would really aid in the academic achiebvement of the students
I feel it would nice if the concerend authority workshops on how to infuse nine domains (subject-wise)
The concept of GNH is too broad thus, the teachers need a lot of support to implement such curriculum effectively.