Jayalakshmi Thirugnanam
Founder – Open Mindz
India
Jayalakshmi has worked as a teacher of English in schools and colleges. She has presented and published papers on various aspects of English Language Teaching. She holds an M.Phil.in English Language Teaching, with B.Ed., MBA and has recently completed her M.Sc. -Counselling and Psychotherapy.
Her academic interests have led to the creation of Open Mindz which is an exclusive English Language Learning center, offering various English courses to young children up to adults. Open Mindz is now going the Franchise route in order to support aspiring Women Entrepreneurs.
Open Mindz has been a facilitator to youngsters by providing the right tools to make their academic life easier and more enjoyable. The Open Mindz programs are dedicated to the upliftment of children to their truest potential in both their personal and academic life. The Open Mindz flagship program is the Intensive Phonics course which is a fool-proof method of getting children to read. Open Mindz follows the Jolly Phonics Methodology along with its own invaluable homegrown teaching techniques.
This unique blended methodology has proven to be extremely beneficial to all children particularly the special children. The latter can grasp the curriculum with simplicity thus creating a sense of confidence that soon paves the way to achievement. Children with learning disabilities seem to benefit vastly form the program and on completion, show the aptitude, willingness and inclination to return in order to join other successive courses. Their stint(s) in Open Mindz has been pleasantly and successfully reflected in their mainstream academic environments. This has been expressed by their respective schools’ feedback.
Around sixteen years of experience as English language Teacher/Lecturer/Spoken English Instructor with hands on experience in English language teaching.
• Expertise in Teaching Spoken English.
• Very quick in adopting new methodologies and Technologies.
• Excellent communication skills, self-disciplined and motivated.
She is an enthusiastic blogger and writer. She is the Founder and Publisher of www.cosyreading.com . This is a portal that encourages aspiring authors to get their work published in a simple manner. Cosyreading provides a range of reading material with a fresh flavour and woos the reading community away from their usual fare. Cosyreading believes in the fact that just about anyone can write and therefore, the work produced is worth reading. Hence, the tagline of Cosyreading.com is apt Just Read…