The Team

A learner at heart Mrs. Sonica Chandra has a wide range of experiences in matters of management and is deeply rooted in social transformation. She graduated from the prestigious Nottingham Trent University.

Mrs. Sonica is the Director of the OPG World School and provides vision and strategic direction to the School. She is of the firm belief that the purpose of education is to prepare students to make them future ready where they are outliers, exponential leaders,innovative individuals and lifelong learners who succeed and thrive in any environment. In the post COVID-19 era, which has brought with it great disruption, everything will and must change for the better. In this regard, individuals must seek out opportunities from the challenges that the new normal presents and be leaders who inspire hope and positivity.

Mrs. Namrata Datta, has been an educator for nearly 25 years. With a strong flair for mentoring students, she believes that every child is a unique individual and it is a school’s responsibility to provide them opportunities that enable them to emerge as the balanced and confident leaders of tomorrow. Casting herself in the role of a mentor for her students allows her to facilitate open chains of communication amongst the teachers and students, to ensure that the learning process is a responsive one. 

Mrs. Datta after completing her post-graduation in Economics from Lucknow University started her career at Mayo College Girls’ School, Ajmer. She also took on administrative duties at the school and served as the Director of Academics. With Economics and Social Science as her core subjects, her career spans over a considerable period in various capacities .Her experience of teaching in a boarding school allowed her to hone her skills of effective communication and being an empathetic listener to students. 

Moving forward, Mrs. Datta believes in equipping students for the modern world beyond just the sphere of academics, and to ensure that they enter the world as well-rounded individuals with an equal emphasis on sports and co-curricular activities.

With a little over two decades of teaching all levels -Primary, Middle, and Senior in schools spread across the country, she has always been driven to provide quality education to her students. She has worked towards instigating teaching improvement and encouraging her colleagues to keep pace with the changing strategies in the field of Education.

As an administrator, she strove to motivate the staff towards greater achievement, ensured the standards of learning are upheld, and in the process enhanced her own pedagogical and administrative skills. Her area of interest will always be inculcating in students a love for reading and writing. She also firmly believes that Liberal Arts Education must be imparted compulsorily to students and those language teachers are best suited to take on this responsibility.

Mrs. Mahajan is a competent educator having about two and a half decades of experience in teaching young learners, curriculum planning, designing creative teaching strategies, and conducting workshops for teachers.

“It’s only after you’ve stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform.”? Roy T. Bennett

As an educator, this has been her philosophy. She has always challenged herself and contributed to the area of education in many ways. She has worked as a teacher trainer and trained teachers in innovative teaching strategies to better classroom experiences for children. She has also authored math books for Grades Nursery to III.

She has worked with many organizations of repute in her career including Nirmal Bhartia School, Xseed Education, The Banyan Tree World School, Venkateshwar International School, Mount Carmel School, and Montfort School.

It is no longer a job for her but a contribution to the lives of young children thereby contributing to the future of the society.

Mrs. Preeti Chhikara  pursued her bachelors in English from the reputed Hindu College, Delhi University after which she went on to join the prestigious  Sophia College, Mumbai for a course in Mass Communications. She worked in the line of media for nearly three years.  Her shift to the world of education was a matter of chance and she enjoyed the experience of interacting with children so much that she never did look back and has now been an educationist for over ten years. She completed her Masters in English and acquired a B.Ed degree. Being an alumnus of some premier schools like Maharani Gayatri Devi, Jaipur; Convent of Jesus and Mary, Dehradun; Sacred Heat Bangalore,' has helped Preeti incorporate the best  practices of these schools into her own teaching methodology. 

An accomplished debater at school level with a deep interest in theater has rendered her with the required skill sets to make her classroom teaching very interactive and animated. Besides being a mentor to school children, Preeti has  taught communication skills to people aspiring to be a part of the service industry and has also  worked  with a publishing company as a creative writer for grammar books. 

Mr. Maninder Singh is a Master of Science in Mathematics and holds a degree in Bachelor of Education in Mathematics. He has an experience of twenty years experience in the field of education as a Mathematics teacher. He firmly believes that curiosity is the genesis of motivation to learn and that Mathematics begins with posing problems in the context of concrete activities. He feels that an appropriate way to teach Mathematics at all levels is to do it through applications and emphasizing the formality of Mathematical machinery rather than using traditional discourse. Real-life applications in classroom settings keep his students motivated while learning Mathematics.

A M.Sc. (Chemistry) and a B.Ed. degree from Punjab University, Mrs. Sandeep has a rich experience of 13 years in teaching field. As an academician and facilitator, she is very passionate about her subject. Her calm and holistic nature has imbibed a passion in her work for the overall development of every child. She has an ability to establish, cooperative and professional relationship with staff and parents. She believes in making the subject enjoyable and the class a happy place by successfully integrating technology and application based teaching in it.  

Dr. Anita Rawat has done B.Sc. Zoology Hon. from Delhi University, M.Sc. Molecular Biology and Biotechnology from GBPUAT, Pantnagar (Uttarakhand), B.Ed from CCS University, Meerut and Ph.D from JNU, Delhi. She worked as a postdoctoral fellow with IARI and later joined the Department of Biotechnology, MIET group of Institutions, Meerut for eleven years. 
She has a wide experience of teaching in an Engineering Institute and a school. She has held many administrative responsibilities. She was a Departmental Representative of Institute Purchase Committee since 2009, member of UPSEE-2010 counselling centre at MIET in July-August 2010, Class Counselor (B. Tech, IV year) from 2007-2013 and Class Counselor (B. Tech, II Year) from 2015-2018. 
She has been a member of Departmental Committee for National Board of Accreditation (NBA) and National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) and Member Secretary, Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBSC), MIET, Meerut. She has co-ordinated students’ visits to Bangalore twice, in 2010 and 2013. She was also a member of the Proctorial Board, anti-ragging committee. But above all and foremost, teaching is her passion. Interacting with students and finding their qualities, honing their skills and guiding them according to their interests and achieving their goal gives her utmost satisfaction. 

Mrs  Suman, a renowned author and content writer with sixteen years of teaching experience, is dedicated and passionate towards ensuring that she brings out the best in her learners. She has completed her Post Graduation in Economics from Himachal University and B.Ed from Delhi University and has taught in numerous educational institutions. She has also served as Principal at Shiv Public Sr Sec School, Sohna. Her real life examples, an understanding of adolescent psychology and compassion for her learners makes her an ideal teacher for the senior students. Suman strongly believes that education is panacea to all problems of the world and as an educationist she is continuously striving to contribute her share in making a difference for the better.

Mrs. Anshu Khanna firmly believes in Shannon L. Alder’s philosophy that "Life always begins with one step outside of your comfort zone" and is thus, always striving to step outside the limits of preconceived expectations and explore new horizons. She is an alumni of Alliance Française with "Diplôme Supérieur"(Post graduate in French) and Bachelor of Education from Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University and has an experience of about twelve years in teaching French. In her capacity as Coordinator Co-curricular; coupled with her role as French teacher; , she has been instrumental in the conduct of numerous events and co-curricular activities at school. She cherishes her moments of trying to push boundaries and tapping her unrealised dreams, while staying true to her core values. This has helped her interact with multiple people whilst connecting with a myriad of ideas and finding her true niche. 

She has been a part of the OPG Family for almost eight and half years and it has been a great learning experience for her to grow and nurture professionally within this institution.