The schools today all claim that they are imparting the 21st century skills, that we are preparing children for jobs that don't exist ,that we are encouraging them to become life long learners...
But to me these have started sounding very clichéd and run down statements off late .Why ? Because year after year children that churn out of these human factories are absolutely not in touch with their inner selves,they don't care who they hurt with their words ,they don't care what their role in the community is,they seem oblivious of their respective responsibility in the world.
Yes we have community and services programmes, yes we do have action as their CS responsibility ,but a lot of them are engaging themselves through these only so to complete the mandatory hours.The framework of each school's mission and vision is in place but implementation? That's another story ,I am sure.
So what we and our next generation need is a deep look inside ourselves and see how we align ourselves with the learner profile attributes in our daily lives.
That ,according to me is missing .Those life skills are what the students need today. They know they need to imbibe them,the curriculum caters to the soft skills getting entrenched into the teaching and learning process but to ensure that these are implemented is yet another challenge.
The story ends with all systems in place... Approaches to learning and teaching in place - check.learning profile part of classroom displays- check. Action components in the teachers schemes of work- check.CAS hours in place- check.
Life skills inculcated- check.life skills coordinator on board-check.
All sounding good and speaking of a great success story !
But life doesn't end at " happily ever after" it infact begins .
So while ,our system is all in place all across ...the story is the affairs between the skills and people , the clash between the real and the virtual world, the race against time ,the larger than life expectations, the real BIG world outside and the connections one fails at times or struggles most of the times to establish.
These are real life challenges we throw out at our students in the Real world.It's far away from what he/ she has ever experienced in the class.
We need to empower them with the realisation that the deeper connect with oneself and people around will make us more human, that acceptance of who we are will help us become more resilient instead of complacent . The Mindfulness with which we will connect with our environment will help us get noticed and put us on the path to success sooner than being moneyed- The King of Bhutan is in news as much as Mr Trump.
But to me these have started sounding very clichéd and run down statements off late .Why ? Because year after year children that churn out of these human factories are absolutely not in touch with their inner selves,they don't care who they hurt with their words ,they don't care what their role in the community is,they seem oblivious of their respective responsibility in the world.
Yes we have community and services programmes, yes we do have action as their CS responsibility ,but a lot of them are engaging themselves through these only so to complete the mandatory hours.The framework of each school's mission and vision is in place but implementation? That's another story ,I am sure.
So what we and our next generation need is a deep look inside ourselves and see how we align ourselves with the learner profile attributes in our daily lives.
That ,according to me is missing .Those life skills are what the students need today. They know they need to imbibe them,the curriculum caters to the soft skills getting entrenched into the teaching and learning process but to ensure that these are implemented is yet another challenge.
The story ends with all systems in place... Approaches to learning and teaching in place - check.learning profile part of classroom displays- check. Action components in the teachers schemes of work- check.CAS hours in place- check.
Life skills inculcated- check.life skills coordinator on board-check.
All sounding good and speaking of a great success story !
But life doesn't end at " happily ever after" it infact begins .
So while ,our system is all in place all across ...the story is the affairs between the skills and people , the clash between the real and the virtual world, the race against time ,the larger than life expectations, the real BIG world outside and the connections one fails at times or struggles most of the times to establish.
These are real life challenges we throw out at our students in the Real world.It's far away from what he/ she has ever experienced in the class.
We need to empower them with the realisation that the deeper connect with oneself and people around will make us more human, that acceptance of who we are will help us become more resilient instead of complacent . The Mindfulness with which we will connect with our environment will help us get noticed and put us on the path to success sooner than being moneyed- The King of Bhutan is in news as much as Mr Trump.
We will need to engage students in value education from early life.
We will need to train teachers to all be counsellors in their own right. We will need to see beyond the happy ending of the story....
The story is behind the scenes!
We will need to train teachers to all be counsellors in their own right. We will need to see beyond the happy ending of the story....
The story is behind the scenes!
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