‘To teach is to touch a life forever’, and at Podar Institute of Education we ensure that our learners are equipped with the best global practices. We offer a host of courses for teachers to upskill themselves and to gain quality qualifications required for their role as foundational years teachers and center managers. Young children need developmentally appropriate practices and our courses ensure that learners understand education from the point of view of children - Kiducation.
We offer a wide range of programs that help you get certified in important topics like Brain Development, Nature Education and Early Childhood Education. Our courses are well researched and backed by superb course material and a hybrid format of learning where learners can avail the courses online-at their own pace, face to face to interact and discuss virtual sessions when time is limited. Each course is planned to ensure that you learn about the latest practices from around the globe and be able to implement them in your classrooms by making your teaching learning process more personalized for every child.
The field of Early Childhood Education today has many opportunities from teaching to curriculum design, designing toys for children, design of books for children, puppetry as a profession, running your own successful children's club or your own party planning business or designing schools or developing programs for home-schooling. Our courses equip you for these opportunities and more.
Come join Podar Institute of Education to touch a life forever!
- Dr. Swati Popat Vats
About Dr. Swati Popat Vats
With more than 38 years of experience, Dr. Swati Popat Vats is a globally awarded early years leader and influencer. She is the President of Podar Education Network and the Founder Director of Podar Jumbo Kids, Podar Prep preschool and day care chain with more than 500 centres in India and Qatar. She heads the teacher training wing of Podar, Podar Institute of Education and has also served as a Lead Assurer for the CACHE (UK) program at Podar. She is also the President of Early Childhood Association and Association for Preparatory Education and Research.
Advocacy for children has been her mission and passion, especially advocating for stress free education and childhood for children, right from the foundational years. She strongly advocates for the removal of stressful practices like cursive writing and red and blue line writing books in the early years curriculum.
Dr. Vats has authored more than 35 books for parents, teachers and children, her most recent works are two books on Coding for Children and books on teaching children to be safe from Child Sexual Abuse. Dr. Vats has written books to help adults understand about POCSO and fight child sexual abuse.
Dr. Vats serves as consultant and series editor for the Cambridge International Early Years Project and as a Global member of the Think Tank of KidZania.