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Ms Saklendra Sikka, the Head of the Department of English, Mount Carmel School, has spent 25 years of her life in this profession. After completing her BA in English Honours from Indraprastha College, Delhi University, she went ahead to complete her Masters in the same from Delhi University. She did her BEd from Jabalpur University. She has also bagged the Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching of English from the Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages, Hyderabad. She entered the teaching profession in 1981 and since then has been teaching English and Mathematics to high school and middle school students in top tier schools of Delhi, Kolkata and Jabalpur. Some of the eminent schools in which Ms Saklendra has taught are Joseph's Convent, Jabalpur, Kendriya Vidyalaya, Cossipore, Kolkata and Mount Carmel School, New Delhi where she has been working since, 1995.

To Ms Saklendra it is imperative that her classroom experience (both teaching and learning) is fun and exciting. That is why she teaches through games in classrooms. She has been organising "Spelling Bee" contests for the last two years and a scrabble competition this year to help children enhance their spelling and vocabulary. She also plans to organise a literature quiz this year. Apart from this she has been the editor of the school magazine for the last three years and has, with her editorial board, introduced new features in the magazine which are commendable. Ms Saklendra was recognised as "Best Teacher" in 2004.