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Amanda Aiken a Senior Director of Schools at New Orleans College Prep, says, “They (students) aren’t going to be prepared for college if they’re suffering". Early intervention for the child — and education for the parent — is key, says an educator involved in wellbeing. Today student wellbeing is considered to be an important element of a good school. Some of the factors have made it necessary. Factors such as- changing environment, family structure, poverty, toughening academics, dilemmas in career etc. In order to identify and support children wellbeing needs we need to align the wellbeing strategies and programs into our school practices. For this we need staff training, organisational change etc. Aiken says that, “Teachers are trained to teach. We have all taken a child psychology class, but we’re not trained to work with kids with mental health needs,” she says. Here comes the need of teachers training on wellbeing. There are man...

Dr. Maria Montessori is the founder of the Montessori method of education. Maria Montessori was an Italian physician, educator, and innovator, acclaimed for her educational method that builds on the way children naturally learn. There are now more than 22,000 Montessori schools in at least 110 countries worldwide. In the early 20th century there were many schools started under the banner of Montessori philosophy. It also greatly influenced many educators. But the Montessori High school curriculum is in its initial stages. One prime reason we find is,  Montessori’s direct work and many of her writings pertain to educating young children up through elementary school, so it is harder to find high schools. Currently there are around 20 high schools which have adopted Montessori approach. Anna Meloy a high school student who experienced Montessori high school wrote a comment. “I felt really prepared for college and had those real-life experiences,”. “I had the...

A Story of Watermelons by Defense Minister Shri Manohar Parrikar --------------------------------------------------- “I am from the village of Parra in Goa, hence we are called Parrikars. My village is famous for its watermelons. When I was a child, the farmers would organise a watermelon-eating contest at the end of the harvest season in May. All the kids would be invited to eat as many watermelons as they wanted. Years later, I went to IIT Mumbai to study engineering. I went back to my village after 6.5 years. I went to the market looking for watermelons. They were all gone. The ones that were there were so small. I went to see the farmer who hosted the watermelon-eating contest. His son had taken over. He would host the contest but there was a difference. When the older farmer gave us watermelons to eat he would ask us to spit out the seeds into a bowl. We were told not to bite into the seeds. He was collecting the seeds for his next crop. We were unpaid child labourers, ac...

In diverse country like India usually children at school learn three languages at a time. For example, in Karnataka state child learns English, Kannada, and Hindi. Most of them feel that children are troubled because of this. In more and more studies on language development and Brain, scientists suggest that it is rather advantageous for the child. Multilingual people have healthier, more engaged brains. Schools often focus on the deficit skills of students who are learning English, but bilingualism helps build strong, healthy brains. According to brain scans, people who speak more than one language have a higher density of gray matter, which contains most of the brain's neurons and synapses. Bilingual students — and students struggling to become bilingual — should know that their ability to speak more than one language is a source of great strength. Learn more . Paste the below link in your browser if unable to open link. https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2016/08/29/why-m...