VCOP India was founded by two visionary and dynamic women, Jigna Dharod and Shalini Devi in 2023. The company is committed to transforming literacy and writing outcomes by empowering educators, strengthening teaching practices, and supporting schools in improving the oral and written language of students. Inspired by globally recognized VCOP and Big Write methodologies, the duo has curated a well structured systematic curriculum that will help students talk confidently, think creatively and express beautifully through their writing.
We believe that strong communication and literacy skills are essential foundations for lifelong learning and success. Through high-quality professional development, practical classroom strategies, and evidence-based approaches, VCOP India equips educators with the tools to make writing engaging, structured, and impactful for every learner.
Beyond training, VCOP India is dedicated to developing a strong pool of skilled trainers who can inspire, mentor, and lead educational transformation. By building trainer capacity, we aim to create sustainable learning communities that continuously support schools and educators in delivering excellence.
We also partner with schools as trusted consultants, helping them design and implement a strong, effective VCOP-aligned writing curriculum tailored to their learning goals. Our consulting approach supports schools in embedding purposeful writing practices, enhancing teaching quality, and creating environments where students can thrive as confident, globally-ready communicators and writers.”
Big Write is just one, of your many, writing sessions in the week- ideally at the end of the week. We like Thursday. It’s a special start/stop piece of writing, where the students ‘show off’ and celebrate all the skills they have been learning from the English and Inquiry Curriculum that week. It has a special atmosphere to promote calm and creative writers and encourages students to reflect on their learning and how they can improve.
VCOP stands for vocabulary, connectives, openers and punctuation. These four elements quickly and easily enhance writing by creating the writer’s voice. Together with GHaSP (grammar, handwriting, spelling and punctuation)- the building blocks to correct and clear writing, VCOP adds the icing on the cake- excitement, pizzazz and flow to keep the audience engaged throughout the piece.
VCOP stands for vocabulary, connectives, openers and punctuation. These four elements quickly and easily enhance writing by creating the writer’s voice. Together with GHaSP (grammar, handwriting, spelling and punctuation)- the building blocks to correct and clear writing, VCOP adds the icing on the cake- excitement, pizzazz and flow to keep the audience engaged throughout the piece.
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 fields of Early Childhood Education, Jolly Phonics, Jolly Grammar, English, Creative Writing, Handwriting Improvement, and Graphology. She also consults and develops curricula for many reputed schools across India. Being an avid learner, she has continuously enhanced her skills through various programs, including Phonics International, Fitzroy Phonics, Music and Movement, Emotional Intelligence, Brain Gym, Remedial Education, UDL (Using Drama for Learning), Double Doodles, Hooking Up from Head to Tail, and Storytelling, among others.
She runs the “Phonics Club,” which currently caters to more than 1,000 students annually through her nine centres and has trained over 10,000 teachers across the globe. During her journey as a teacher and trainer, she realised that a strong foundation in writing is essential. VCOP and Big Write emerged as the perfect solution, helping students build confidence by providing them with a clear framework and the right direction to develop strong language skills. She aims to take this wonderful program to a larger audience, enabling more students, teachers, and educational institutions to benefit from its proven approach to literacy and writing development.
Shalini is the Founder and Director of Phonics Power, a leading institute in India that offers various programmes focused on Early Literacy and English Language Development. As a passionate educator, she has also served as an educational consultant and teacher trainer since 2012. An accredited trainer for Jolly Learning (UK) and Oxford University Press (India), Shalini is actively involved in teacher training and has trained nearly 7,500 teachers from over 340 private schools and teacher training institutes. She also works as an academic consultant and curriculum planner for many of these schools, helping them transition from traditional rote learning methods to the more effective Synthetic Phonics approach.
Her expertise includes training in phonics, grammar, creative writing, comprehension, reading and spelling intervention for primary students, and spoken English. She also designs engaging language lessons for secondary students using storybooks, short films, feature-length films, and advertisements as learning tools. Driven by her vision of providing an effective, simple, step-by-step, and enjoyable writing programme, Shalini joined hands with Jigna Dharod to create an extensive framework for creative writing aligned with the Big Write and VCOP methodology. Together, they are working to transform the approach to writing in Indian schools through their Big Write and VCOP-inspired creative writing workshops for students and teachers.
