Catalysing Social Infrastructure Revolution, Globally
To be honest, the Digital School platform is still quite a stretch for most schools due to the quality of internet access and PC/Laptop penetration. Smart mobile devices are ubiquitous and very affordable. Mobile School is a micro-set of the processes offered through mobile devices to enable schools to significantly enhance the quality of communication and collaboration with parents. Some of the accessible key processes are:
a. Messages for students and parents
b. Image gallery
c. Class teacher communication
d. News, documents sharing
e. Transport, fee alerts
Under trial run, it is a unique App for teachers, parents and children on sharing reported news from across the world on education, science, math, careers, economics, technology, sports, culture and environment to start with. Starting out as small curated daily m-news paper, it will eventually grow to be powered by student-reporters.
Incidentally, it will only carry the good side of the world - good news paper! It will celebrate the vast goodness of humanity, especially individuals.
To be launched soon, it is the world's first initiative in bringing 'career-related activities', assessments, action plan and periodic review of career choices for the students of classes VII-XII. It follows a completely new perspective to career choice decisions.
To be true, we are waiting for the right school to kickstart this programme. You could be the right school to start this programme if:
a. Don't really take pride in 'number of IITians' from your school
b. Don't really believe in aptitude and attitude assessments for career
c. Don't really blame parents and teachers for most ills (and believe in students)
To be launched soon, it is to contempararise 'robotics education' in schools – moving away mechanical to organic robots' (bots). It’ll essentially be in the form of case studies and presentations.
The curriculum designed and developed through active learning on the ground focuses on the learner’s perspective. The elements of the curriculum are aligned in themes relevant to real life -what we ask students to do must relate to what we want them to learn.
Domains within the theme are written around Cognitive, affective, emotional and physical development goals. The standards in each domain ensure Quality, Clarity and Consistency in learning progression.
The curriculum package for each Grade level consists of I - book (Domain), Learners Book and Instructors Book.
We have developed a micro online Audit first of its kind, of teaching learning that could be quick and frequent non disruptive to schedule that include Evaluation of Lesson planning, Video recorded Classroom observation, Teachers’ Questionnaire, Principals’ inputs and Parents Contact telephonic interviews.
The audit allows us to make authoritative evaluations about the quality of education and give well-informed, learner-centred advice to the school leadership and management.
We host a variety of workshops to support, empower and engage the stakeholders in quality delivery for:
1. Students (Academic Performance, Career Guidance and Leadership towards personal success)
2. Parents (Skills for Working towards the success and opportunities for their children)
3. Teachers and School Leaders (Professional efficacy and job satisfaction)
A mobile-based English language development platform harnessing the mentoring support of the 'Handhold English volunteers'.
A significant tool for schools to harness their (small) community of proficient English language parents, teachers & children’ for the benefit of all other students.
A unique board exam oriented math, physics and chemistry assessment-led concept education programme.
To be available to students from 1st January 2016,it’ll be a significant support for securing higher marks in CBSE exams, while devoting the rest of the year on career preparation exams.
Schools were meant to letter the children of 'unschooled parents'. Yet, the best kept secret of the school-based education system is that quality of parenting is THE differentiator, born geniuses are few and far between.
In these times, no child can be left behind in school education! And the best guarantee of the same is to enable every parent to support their children. The new-age mass format of schools is 'community schools', focused on family education rather than just the children.
Schools, as we know them, were designed for first-generation learners; schools were meant to 'read the contents of prescribed books' to the children of 'unschooled parents', through the lettered teachers.
However, the world of students has dramatically changed e.g. there are III/IV/V/VI-generation learners in every classroom who can read and understand the contents of the prescribed textbooks by themselves (to a large extent).
Sandeep and Saloni, Co-Founders, 'home educated' their only child, Shreya, 17. They do not actively promote 'home education' but very intently offer to handhold parents aspiring home education for their children.
Their daughter is intensely involved in violin, vocals, painting, photography, design, fashion, documentary editing, creative writing, reading, dance, Spanish etc.and in the process they have developed frameworks for guiding investments of time, effort and money in overall development activities of children.
Feel free to write to them at Saloni@iycworld.net for co-scholastic development support for your home educated children.
Sandeep and Saloni, Co-Founders, 'home educated' their only child to most amazing experience for self and their daughter, 17. They do not actively promote 'home education' but very intently offer to handhold parents aspiring home education for their children.
While their daughter achieved great scholastic and co-scholastic success, they are professionally involved in school reforms and happy to support design and development of new education models.
Feel free to write to them at Saloni@iycworld.net for initiating new-age school for home-educated children.