Address in interaction with the Teachers and Students of Delhi participating in the Educational Technology Lecture Series
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| Vision for the School | | Vision: does it reflect a school having a big building, having a big laboratory or having a big infrastructure? Not at all. Great schools will have great teachers who loves teaching and with great vision. The vision should be to make a beautiful school, generating righteous youth, happy youth who are professionally sound and morally upright. Hence, it should generate quality youth who are an asset to the nation. Can the Schools create a Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Nobel Laureate CV Raman, a great mathematician Ramanujan, a great pain remover Mother Theresa, a great economist Amarthya Sen or Freedom movement inspire Poet Bharathiar or internationally celebrated Rabindra Nath Tagore, creator of National Anthem? Can we generate the environment needed for promoting the creativity leading to development of such type of personalities by the school? | |
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| | I visualize the teachers in a school far away from the city from district headquarters - close to the village panchayats. As soon as the teachers join the school, they have to plan, how they are going to develop the students the next 7 years. Teachers have to decide the positive changes that they would like to bring about for the overall growth of the class in a specified period. Normally the schools are evaluated based on the performance of school in terms of percentage of passes with distinction. 100% will be considered outstanding. 90% very good, 80% good. This is the present method of evaluation of the schools by the parents, by the govt by the management. I feel that there is a need for paradigm shift in thinking in the evaluation process. | |
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| | According to me, the best school is one where the students complete the school up to 10+2 after 25000 hours of education in the campus. The student has to become full-fledged responsible citizen for the nation who will be able to realize his dreams and not be frightened of any problem. Student should be groomed to be physically fit, academically sound with capacities for research and inquiry, innovation, use of high technology, moral and entrepreneurial leadership. He should be emotionally mature and spiritually awakened. For nurturing such an individual, what is the role and what should be the vision of the teachers and teacher educators. They should have a one line statement of vision "my vision is to give to the student's all-round capability that is always creative, observant, aim to acquire knowledge continuously leading to the generation of an excellent performer with sterling character built with the unique tradition of the school". In this process, the education system has to develop the five minds as described in the book "Five Minds for the Future" by Howard Gardner. | |
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| | a). The disciplinary mind: mastery of mind in different schools of thought including science mathematics and history and proficiency in at least one professional craft.
b). The synthesizing mind: ability to integrate ideas from different disciplines or spheres into a coherent whole and to communicate to others.
c). The creative mind: capacity to uncover and clarify new problems, questions and phenomenon.
d). The respectful mind: awareness of and application for differences among human beings.
e). The ethical mind: fulfillment of one's responsibility as a worker and a citizen. | |
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| | To develop these five minds, one need not change the syllabus of the school. The culture of the school and vision of the school and the teacher's way of life will imbibe these five minds among the students. Let me present my experience of creative class room.
Let me now discuss with you about the importance of Knowledge. | |
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