Asian College of Teachers - Academic Body

CTPD – Asia's (a division of Asian College of Teachers) Academic Board is comprised of accomplished and experienced teaching professionals from diverse backgrounds as Associate Academic Directors. They lend their expertise in all academic matters while assuring academic integrity and high quality. The Academic Board is aligned with the institutional mission, and plays a significant role in bringing contemporary developments in a range of academic areas.

Associate Academic Directors comprising of the Academic Board are as follows:

Dr. Janat Blackmon

Dr. Janat Blackmon is an international educator, speaker, and trainer from Canada. She has a doctorate in Education Leadership and has a wealth of knowledge of international training, teaching, and culturally responsive leadership. She currently resides in Texas and works as IB Coordinator. She is a Certified Teacher in Canada, Thailand, and Texas, a certified Montessori Teacher, a Texas Certified Principal, a certified ICF coach, and a Google Certified Educator. Janat has worked internationally for over 16 years as an administrator, teacher, reading interventionist, and as a workshop presenter, keynote speaker, guest lecturer, and trainer on leadership, differentiation, assessment, and worked with organizations in developing democracy in education. She is working with challenging change in education for our globalized society and working to develop education for the 21st century. She is passionate about working with staff and students to help them develop their unique talents and confidence to be leaders in society and work for justice and equity for all. She is passionate about student agency, leadership, and working with healing Trauma. Janat works for change in education so our children can be leaders in creating a society that values diverse perspectives and who can communicate and collaborate to innovate.

Dr Margaret Davitt Maughan

Dr Margaret Davitt Maughan is a Senior Educator with Ed.D. Leadership, from the University of San Francisco and 35 years of experience in classrooms, curriculum development and interdisciplinary studies. She has the expertise in instructional organization and the ability to make the subject useful. She has taught varied courses over the course of her long teaching career like Curriculum and Instruction for Secondary Schools, Historical and Social Foundations, Educational Psychology for Secondary Teachers, Physical Education, Curriculum and Methods for Elementary Social Studies Teachers, Contemporary Educational Issues, Diversity in the Classroom, Ethics and Leadership, Philosophy of Education, Organizational Management.
As a teacher she has always put emphasis on student-centered learning and creative implementation of curriculum and methodology. With a deep understanding of current theory and practice, she has always been open to contemporary programs of revitalization in teaching. She has always been into facilitating quality teaching and has been conferred with several professional honors, scholarships and grants.
Dr Maughan has also been into academic research and her dissertation topic was "An investigation of the relationship between espoused values, shared assumptions, and specific demographic factors among faculty in selected secondary schools". She also has several professional presentations and publications to her credit.

Dr Sanjib Chakraborty

Dr Sanjib Chakraborty (Neil) is a PhD in Management Science from University of Hertfordshire, UK with two Masters - in Education (M.Ed in Curriculum & Instruction Design) and in Business Administration. He is a Diploma holder in Learning & Development, CIPD, UK, a Certified L&D Practitioner from British Institute of Learning & Development, UK and a Certified Trainer from Singapore Institute of Management, Singapore.
Dr Chakraborty has been a lecturer at a University in Bangkok, Thailand and presently lectures at several international universities in Asia. He is an ardent facilitator and an avid traveler who has been to more than 35 countries conducting workshops and creating engaging learning experiences through custom-made Learning and Development programs. He is adept at adult learning methodologies who is well-versed in the instructional design and delivery process to meet individual needs and organizational demands. He conducts Learning and Development and Train the Trainer courses in India and across Asia and has imparted training for organizations like Indian Navy, Spice Jet, Sony, BPCL, Citibank to name a few.

Ms. Kuhurina Basu

A passionate, competent, dynamic and highly motivated professional with a rich and varied teaching experience who has gained experience within different practical and development roles along with over thirty years of teaching experience in English, Psychology and Economics and ten years of administrative experience in leading a team, including school project management, content and curriculum development, teaching special needs students and teacher training.
Ms. Kuhurina has relevant and excellent teaching experience of A-Level and IGCSE English, Literature, Economics and Psychology and has coached students and prepared them for examinations. She has a rich experience of classroom teaching both in Mumbai, India and London, UK. She has worked as a senior teacher with several reputed schools in Mumbai and has been a tutor with Tutor (ESOL) – East London Business College, London and worked as Supply Teacher in High Schools in London. She has also been a teacher trainer with Cambridge International Diploma for Teachers and Trainers. Presently she is associated with Asian College of Teachers (ACT) as an Academic Head.

Mr. Mervin Strome

Mervin has a Master’s Degree in Counselling and worked as a counsellor in private practice and for professional counselling agencies. Mervin has taught for different colleges and has written accredited courses at these institutions. He has been working in education, counselling and psychology for over 30 years.

Ms. Ann Bale

Ann has a Master’s Degree in Psychology, a Diploma in Clinical and Pastoral Counselling, and has completed a year of psychotherapy training. She has worked as a counsellor in private practice, and has taught in schools and colleges (both online and in classroom settings.) In addition to this, she has written accredited certificate, diploma and degree courses in counselling and psychology, in the UK and in North America. Ann has been working in education, counselling and psychology for over 30 years.

Ms. Papiya Rozario

Ms. Papiya Rozario, M Ed (Sp. Ed), MA, B Com, B Ed is a highly inspired primary and secondary school teacher with over 15 years’ experience in children’s education as well as with special needs children in international schools across the globe. She is currently working in Modern International School, Bangkok with a dual responsibility as the A-level (Sixth Form) coordinator and Head of the Languages Division (English and Foreign Languages) with an additional profile of Secondary SENCO (Special Educational Needs Coordinator). She will soon be joining the London Metropolitan University to pursue double master’s in Education Leadership and curriculum in 2020 for accentuating her career in Education leadership and Curriculum management.

Mr Joseph David Thyparambil

Mr Joseph David Thyparambil (BA in Education with Certificate in Teaching English as Foreign Language TEFL) has been a passionate educator whose teaching journey has been very fulfilling as it took him to many different countries where he shared and disseminated knowledge extending learning and exploring more. Presently based in Al Ain, United Arab Emirates as a Chief Academic Officer with Creative Educational Services. He has had an extensive experience as a teaching professional within Academia in not only teaching but administration, researching, designing curriculum, liaising and coordinating teachers training and administrative training, conducting numerous workshops and being involved in several P R activities. He has also been the recipient of Best Principal’s Award, 2014, endowed by Students Development Society, India and is on the Advisory Board of Global Aero Sports and STEM Trainers.

Dr Atreyi Datta

Dr Atreyi Datta is a PhD holder in Psychology (Cal) and has also completed Post Graduate Diploma in Rehabilitation Psychology (RCI). She is attached as a Consulting Psychologist with the training unit of a Special School in Kolkata. Her forte lies in psychological assessment and counseling clients suffering from varied psychological problems and learning disabilities.

Ms. Suparna Ghosh

Ms. Suparna Ghosh, MSc Psychology, is keenly interested in studying the workings of the human mind and has more than 20 years of experience in teaching and counselling. She is appreciated for her therapy sessions with adolescents and life coaching sessions with adults. She also holds workshops on different relevant modern-day issues in schools as well as corporate organisations. Her clients are from different walks of life & works with other trainers as well to facilitate them with psychological inputs and interpretations. Some of the institutions she was associated with were Garden High School, Kolkata; Marble Arch School, Mumbai; Jankidevi Public School, Mumbai. She is also an in-house psychologist and consultant for Yashashwini Films, Mumbai for holding regular motivational workshops for their actors.

Ms. Moumita Ganguly

Moumita Ganguly has graduated with Psychology Honours and has a Masters in Clinical Psychology. She has also pursued B.Ed. in special education, Post Graduate Diploma in Performing Arts Therapy. In addition to that, she has also done an advanced course in graphology and RCI recognised course of FCED, and is working in the field of psychological counseling for 5 years. In her journey of pursuing this noble profession she has given her utmost dedication in upgrading herself with each passing year and has always maintained a healthy relation with all her clients including the special children she has treated. She believes in giving each individual a bit of relief through her dedicated efforts she puts in her counselling.

Dr Mala (Dasgupta) Sengupta

Dr Mala (Dasgupta) Sengupta has worked as a teacher and examiner for 25 years with a commitment to high quality teaching and pedagogical practices. Over the years, she has served as an English teacher (classes VII to XII) and eventually as the Head of the Department of English as well as the Controller of Examination with an ICSE/ISC school and as an examiner with several professional institutions like SUMMIT and PATHFINDER and Engineering College under WBUT. She is also proficient in designing curriculum, developing study material, students’ time table, teachers’ timetable, conducting exams, counselling students, parents, teachers, conducting workshops and training teachers.

Ms. Radhika Ramamoorthy

Ms. Radhika Ramamoorthy who has a Masters in English Literature with B.Ed. in English and Social Studies and P G Diploma in TEFL/TESOL, has been a dedicated educator for 25 years with teaching experience in CBSE, ICSE and IGCSE schools. Besides being a teacher, she has also been a college lecturer and an able administrator, heading a reputed school in Mumbai for 7 years. She is also adept at conducting workshops on topics like Classroom Management, Value based education, Interactive approach to teaching of English, Teacher Development Programme and E-Learning for Continuous Education.

Ms. Anita Khanna

Ms. Anita Khanna who has completed her Post Graduation from Delhi University and MEd from Vinayak University, has been a successful educator with an extensive experience of more than 30 years which started with teaching at the pre and primary level. She has prepared and delivered lessons to a range of classes of different ages and capacities with effective classroom management abilities up her sleeve. She eventually switched over to educational administration and had been associated with different schools of repute as a Principal. She has always been passionate about teaching and presently enjoying her stint as a Principal effectively spearheading the administration of L.R College of Advance Studies in Delhi.