At VCOP India, our Master Trainers are passionate educators committed to transforming writing, communication, and literacy outcomes in classrooms. They play a vital role in empowering teachers through high-quality professional development, practical classroom strategies, and evidence-based learning approaches.
Our Master Trainers guide educators in effectively implementing the VCOP and Big Write methodology, helping schools create engaging, confident, and purposeful writers. Through hands-on training, mentoring, and continuous support, they inspire teachers to build stronger language foundations and meaningful learning experiences for every child.
With expertise, passion, and a commitment to educational excellence, VCOP India Master Trainers are dedicated to raising literacy standards and nurturing confident learners for the future.
Master Trainer
Chief Trainer & Director, Phonics Kingdom
Chief Trainer and Director of Phonics Kingdom, Jigna Dharod, is an Official Certified Trainer with Jolly Learning UK and IIPE Canada for Experiential Learning. Her experience spans over 28 years of training children and teachers in the field of Early Child Education, Jolly Phonics, Jolly Grammar, English, Creative Writing, Handwriting Improvement, and Graphology. She consults and creates curriculum for many reputed schools in India. Being an avid learner she has been constantly enhancing her skills with various programs like Phonics International, Fitzroy Phonics, Music and Movement, Emotional Intelligence, BrainGym, Remedial Education, UDL (using drama for learning), Double Doodles, Hooking up from Head to Tail, Story Telling, and a few of them.
She runs ‘Phonics Club’, which currently caters to more than 1000+ students every year from her 9 centers and has also trained over 10000+ teachers across the globe.
During her stint as a teacher and trainer, she realised that a strong foundation course in writing is essential. VCOP and Big Write came as a perfect solution, as they will help students to boost their confidence, giving them a clear framework and the right direction for strong Language skills. She aims to take this wonderful program and spread it to a larger audience.
Master Trainer
Founder & Director, Phonics Power
Shalini is the founder and director of Phonics Power, which is a leading institute in India that runs various programmes on Early Literacy and English language development courses. As a passionate teacher, she has also adorned the role of an educational consultant and a teacher trainer since 2012.
Shalini, an accredited trainer for Jolly Learning — UK and Oxford University Press — India, is now actively involved in training teachers and has trained nearly 7500 teachers from 340+ private schools and teacher training institutes. She also serves as an academic consultant and curriculum planner in many of these schools and takes great pride in helping these schools move from rote learning to the Synthetic Phonics methodology.
Her expertise includes training in various literacy skills such as phonics, grammar, creative writing, comprehension, reading & spelling intervention for primary students and spoken English. She creates language lessons for secondary students which are fun and engaging based on story books, short films, feature-length films & ads.
Her quest for providing an effective, simple, step-by-step, fun-filled writing programme led her to join hands with Jigna Dharod to create an extensive framework for ‘ creative writing ’ in alignment with Big Write and VCOP methodology. Together, they are working hard to bring a major change in the approach towards writing in Indian schools through their Big Write and VCOP-inspired creative writing workshops for students and teachers.