Edu Research & Insights

Bill gates explains the importance of feedback for teachers. Below is a link of Ted talk at YouTube. https://youtu.be/81Ub0SMxZQo

Snippets: - For a school to be outstanding, it should consider the wellbeing of children and of it's staff who work with them. - While schools should never be expected to do the job of mental health services, they have a crucial role to play in promoting good mental health in everything they do. - Taking a whole-school approach to wellbeing has benefits for young people’s wider education, and for everyone who works in school. - For this we need to see a more fundamental change to the system. Click to read from source:

At the end of this webpage in below link you will find many blogs discussing about home schooling. https://wonderyearsschool.com

Snippets: - When it comes to schools, teachers who accept textbook content uncritically are quite likely to accept content on the internet without questioning the sources and quality of information that is shared.  - Textbooks are also not used for critical analysis. Teachers primarily teach in order that students would be able to write the expected answers to questions based on the lessons in the textbook. - For many teachers, the main objective of the lesson is to transmit the content of the lessons as presented in the textbook. As per observation of one study, teachers did not critically examine textbook content and did not expect students to engage with the textbooks directly. - Teachers explicitly managed the ways in which students used their textbooks within the classroom. - Like the English language, the use of the internet too seems to be a marker of privilege. - The sources and quality of content that is made available for educational purposes through the use of smart bo

When I was interacting with one of the entrepreneur, he shared about challenges in getting suitable candidates for his organisation. One of the highlights was about MTI (Mother tongue influence) in english language. And the next day I was traveling with the help of Google maps assistant. When I observed the way google maps pronounced Indian names, it had MTI. And by taking this as a reason I will not reject google device claiming that it has MTI. I believe only call centres need pakka english as they want their foreign clients to believe that the person in conversation is someone from their own country. But other than this client satisfaction why are we bothered with accent. When we are not perfect in our own mother tongue, and when we are not even bothered to work on it. Then why do we feel so inferior when we do not know english. I don't have grudge with english. The reason I bother is, the inferiority of not knowing english is making our children feel inferior in their persona

Snippets : - Are we feeding children that there’s only one way to think, one way to feel, and one way to determine intelligence? - There is not one way of determining intellect because we are all unique in our own way. So we cannot follow one size fits all strategy. - The education system’s sole purpose should be to  educate  us in order to better ourselves and society, and for that it should teach us 'how' to think. But instead it just tells us what to think. It means that it is helping us to gather knowledge, but not to create it through our uniqueness. - The good news is, some countries are now trying to shift the way we approach education. For example: Finland, a longstanding leader in education, is in the process of completely reforming its education system. - Finland is trying to implement 'phenomenon based learning'. Its a system where students take one particular phenomenon or concept and look at it through multiple lenses, applying it to whatever subjects

Snippets: - 'Ministry of loneliness'. Yes you read it right. In January, British Prime Minister Theresa May, appointed the first “minister of loneliness.” Her administration released an 84-page plan detailing the actions it will take to curb loneliness across the country, including measures that will be enacted in schools. - What kind of development does these happenings signal. What precautions can be taken by the more cultural, traditional countries like India, Pakistan, Thailand, Bhutan and some strong tribal communities around the world. - The article reflects on changes in the structure of society, which is rampant in Western countries. It says, marriage rates and religious-participation rates are dropping, and  both are risk factors  for social isolation and loneliness.  - The chronic loneliness is linked to a variety of health issues, such as  decreased immunity to viral infections ,  poor sleep, and  cardiovascular issues like hypertension . - Individual teachers,

- The involvement of parents in child's education is as important as teachers. - Parents and teachers' collaboration is very important. And one means of collaboration is Parent-teacher meetings and orientations. - At home, parents should talk to their child about his experiences on a daily basis. - Each parent-teacher meeting is an opportunity to refine child's individual learning plan and to make sure the roles of teacher, student and parents are clear, specific and designed to bring out the best in child. - The below link discusses about a sample plan as to what can be discussed in a parent-teacher meeting. Click to read from source:

Snippets : - There is lot of difference in the way we work. The more emphasis in today's world is on collaboration, than competition. - Most of the schooling systems today consciously and subconsciously foster competition. - The new approach of Singapore will put a break to the old ranking system which encourages competition. - Critical thinking, leadership and complex problem-solving will become increasingly important. Thus we need to focus our children's abilities towards developing these skills. - To achieve multi-disciplinary skills, alongside academic performance the new system should foster social development among pupils to raise self awareness and build decision-making skills.  - The Singapore primary and secondary school report books will no longer indicate whether a pupil finishes top or bottom of the class, while subject and group averages, overall total marks and minimum and maximum grades are set to disappear.  Click to read full article from World Economic

Snippets : - The below snippets have been prepared by Peter Gray's year 2008's article 'A brief history of education'. In this article he discusses about how schools were discovered. - Children now are almost universally identified by their grade in school, much as adults are identified by their job or career. - If we want to understand why standard schools are what they are, we have to abandon the idea that they are products of logical necessity or scientific insight.  - The human instincts (its natural) to play and explore are so powerful that they can never be fully beaten out of a child.  - In relation to the biological history of our species, schools are very recent institutions.  - When society became steeply hierarchical, with a few kings and lords at the top and masses of slaves and serfs at the bottom. Now the lot of most people, children included, was servitude. The principal lessons that children had to learn were obedience, suppression of their own wi

- This is the Early Childhood Education intervention success story of a country called Guyana. It is a country on South America’s North Atlantic coast. Guyana is one of the poorest countries in South America. The rural poor are often completely cut off from population centers and live in crowded, unsanitary conditions. - An organisation known as GPE, together with the government of Guyana is making great progress in improving early childhood education and reducing disparities in learning outcomes between coastal and hinterland areas. - During initial period of project on ECE they found that many teachers were unaware of how play can stimulate cognitive thinking and develop social and motor skills just as much as learning letters and numbers. In a study in 2013, the ministry of Education (MoE) administered a diagnostic assessment to more than 700 children entering grade 1 in hinterland areas. The findings were alarming: approximately 60% of children had not mastered pre-requisite ski

- The teaching profession does not attract enough candidates due to the deterioration of teachers’ social status caused by low salaries, poor working conditions and a lack of career development options.  -  Due to shortage of teachers, contract teachers are hired. These ‘contract teachers’ are hired as an emergency measure and do not meet the same training and qualification requirements as permanent teachers.  - Schools in rural and remote areas have more difficulties in attracting qualified teachers than their counterparts in urban areas. - Difference between qualified teacher and trained teacher: A qualified teacher is one who receives an academic qualification, while a trained teacher is one who has completed the minimum organized teacher training requirements (whether during pre-service training or in-service). Click to read the article from GPE : This is an intiative of credence Learning Foundation to bring news and views on education from various sources .