Friday, 28 February 2014

Need of making education student friendly

In today's education era of endless competition and mindless cramming of facts, the obvious questions that arises is how we are going to deal with the disappointing consequences of marks driven education instead of thought driven education. Today's parents are more concerned about marks and class ranks instead of child's overall development. As far as teachers are concerned even they have tendency to judge a child on it's academic performance. But nobody cares what a child wants for himselfwhat does he want to becomewhat are his ambitionsdoes he likes studies or playing games or singing song? when he is being taught in class does he really wants to study or studies seem to be boring or burden for him. If teachers take initiative to make it interesting or to make it a fun to learn process. 

No doubt just playing games or singing song or doing some other activities would suffice his future needs. Definitely he needs to study as well but that doesn't mean he should be halted from doing other activities. If we do so then the child starts loosing interest not only in his studies but also his beloved hobbies and his mind gets diverted towards wrong direction.

The obvious question that comes into one's mind is how to deal with this situation because one can't allow one's child to make his hobby as career; knowing to that fact that a child's hobby may change with span of time and if that happens his future would be ruined. The only solution could be Making  Education Student Friendly.This could be done by blending the current education system with the approach we would discuss in our future posts. The motive is to align the current curriculum with new curriculum based on child centric approach. 

Together, lets create more smiles

Thursday, 27 February 2014

Making Eductation Student Friendly

when a young couple start their nuclear life. Amongst others, The most obvious challenge which present and future generation parents faces is the effective engagement of children towards education and their character  development. A 1st class student starts going for tuition not because he isn't able to comprehend what is being taught in school but because he doesn't have willingness to repeat it after coming at home. They always need stick behind them to study. But just think about it, if the child somehow crams the facts and vomit the stuff at the exam. does the purpose solves? certainly not.  
Lets have a deeper insight about our current education system. Our current education system is Teacher centric which means that the teacher is solely responsible for the completion of course and there is only one way transaction of thoughts i.e. teachers to students and this creates an infinite distance between them. No matter how hard school management tries to cope up with but the separation it keeps on increasing.
 In recent years, smart classes have been introduced in the schools to increase the involvement of students and create interest wherein concepts are being taught with the aid of audio/visuals but apparently it doesn't seems to be promising as after a certain duration even the audio visuals gets monotonous narration of concepts, moreover students as well as teachers feel detached.

A child of 7 years could remember names of all the cartoon characters he watches, though they are difficult to remember even for grown ups, but when it comes to the scientific/nonscientific terminology their memory gives up.

What could be the possible reason?
Interest, the only thing that matters for the proper engagement of children. Our current education system is nothing but a burden for them. 

The need of hour is to devise a curriculum which is child centric wherein a child feel attached with teachers, audio/visual aids and other equipment being used. The curriculum should be in accordance to the child’s interest. A perfect combination of child’s interest, audio/visual aids, interactive activities etc. A curriculum made to the children for the children by the children. a curriculum which allows children to think and apply concepts instead  of rote learning.
If we would be develop such curriculum time is not far off when children would be too happy to go schools and will become better citizen of country.


Together, lets create more smiles