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Relation between the facilitators and the students. The word ‘Relation’ is very simple and it is established without anyone’s effort. Here, we need to understand the complexity of carrying the responsibility of established relationship. Though it is very simple to listen, we should focus on the delicacy of it.  As a facilitator, what kind of relation should we establish with the students? We should also understand what kind of relationship do the students expect to establish with us.The impact of relationship clearly puts each one of us in a different efficiency slabs. As a facilitator, let us create an ever lasting impact of the relationship with our students. We should: 1. Be a good listener and allow students to have an ample of space to express their ideas or views. 2. Make students feel confident and at ease during the class hours. As it is easy to identify the kind of intelligence a particular student has and help them to nurture their interest. This will reall...

Impact of Personality in Individuals development In general, personality is all about individual’s physique appearance or their look. But in actual, personality has broader aspect than that and it plays a significant role in Individual’s development. In a broader term, personality includes all psycho-physical dispositions, behaviors, views, interests, and attitudes of an individual. So, in another way, personality represents an individual’s external physique along with internal traits. Personality can be acquired from hereditary, nurture, environment, culture, society, etc. Personality can be modified by the change of maybe demographic location includes society, culture, race, etc. and to develop new personality traits required for some profession or adaptability. Personality plays a significant role in an individual’s overall development that includes personal, social, career, intellectual, etc. Thus, it can be said that personality has a major impact on individual developme...

Education and society Society may be viewed as a system of inter related mutually dependent parts which co operate to preserve a recognisable whole and to satisfy some purpose or goal. Social system refers to the orderly arrangement of parts of society and plurality of individuals interacting with each othet. Social system presupposes a social structure consisting of different parts which are interrelated in such a way as to perform its functions. To perform its functions every society sets up various institutions. Five major complexes of institutions are identified: familial institutions, religious institutions, educational institutions, economic institutions and political institutions. These institutions form sub - systems within social system or larger society. Education as a sub system: Education is a sub - system of the society. It is related to other sub - systems. Variuos institutions or sub systems are a social system because they are interrelated. Education as a sub...

Strategies for successful study Reading Working memory, expertise & retrieval structures Reading is not a simple word recognition skill, but a multilayered process that includes the building of mental models. These mental models provide retrieval structures that enable you to transcend the limits of working memory. In a 1987 experiment, readers were presented with a text that included one or other of these sentences: After doing a few warm-up exercises, Sam put on his sweatshirt and began jogging. or After doing a few warm-up exercises, Sam took off his sweatshirt and began jogging. Both texts went on to say: Sam jogged halfway around the lake. After reading the text, readers were asked if the word sweatshirt had appeared in the story. Now here is the fascinating and highly significant result: those who read that Sam had put on a sweatshirt responded “yes” more quickly than those who had read that he had taken off his sweatshirt. Why is this so significant? Bec...

Desirable difficulty for effective learning Confusion can be a useful part of the learning process, as long as it is relevant and resolvable. This is an example of a desirable difficulty — a difficulty that helps learning by encouraging the learner to greater efforts. However, desirable difficulties have to be at just the right level of difficulty to be effective. When we are presented with new information, we try and connect it to information we already hold. This is automatic. Sometimes the information fits in easily; other times the fit is more difficult — perhaps because some of our old information is wrong, or perhaps because we lack some of the knowledge we need to fit them together. When we're confronted by contradictory information, our first reaction is usually surprise. But if the surprise continues, with the contradictions perhaps increasing, or at any rate becoming no closer to being resolved, then our emotional reaction turns to confusion. Confusion is ve...

Should learning facts by rote be central to education? Is memorization a vital part of education? If 'facts' keep on changing, is there any point to learning them? No, and yes. Growing expertise requires the building of a network of concepts that are very well and deeply connected. Such a structure can withstand the updating of some concepts, but does require the learning of a lot of concepts experienced in many contexts. Memorization by rote, however, is rarely an effective strategy. Michael Gove, the British Education Minister, is reported as saying that ‘Learning facts by rote should be a central part of the school experience’, a philosophy which apparently underpins his shakeup of school exams. Arguing that “memorisation is a necessary precondition of understanding”, he believes that exams that require students to memorize quantities of material ‘promote motivation, solidify knowledge, and guarantee standards'. Let’s start with one sturdy argument: “Only whe...

In continuation with previous article in which gaps in implementation of guidance and counseling programme in India were discussed. In this article, some strategies will be discussed to overcome such gaps. This is the responsibilities of government, educationist, educational administrators, teachers and parents, every personnel needs to step-up in proper implementation of this programme. Most important and initial requirement is to establish or form a governing body that can monitor the entire process of guidance and counseling. At present, various bodies functioning to run and supervise guidance and counseling programmes like CBSE, NCS, NCERT, etc. It should be one single body that can monitor operations across India. In continuation, standards of guidance and counseling programme should be implemented. Due to the absence of single monitoring body, professionals use to do practicing guidance and counseling services who don’t possess relevant degrees and required skills. T...

The damage done by Indian Schools Our education system is flawed. In school, history was firmly contained to rote learning of dates and places. We were forced to learn the dates when wars stared and ended. Instead of why they happened or what could have stopped them. Maths was about Rahul having more apples than he could eat or finding angles of triangles without being told how doing so was useful or calculating the speed of trains going in the opposite direction. English was about memorising select poems and writing down the notes the teacher dictated instead of being asked what our interpretation scoring more involved writing the longest ,most convoluted answers for simple questions. As students all over India are taught answers for five mark questions should have more words than those for other question. How many more children's spirits will we sacrifice at the altar of education. What have we done?           ...

In order to understand language acquisition, it is important to know the five components of language and the study of those components: phonology, semantics, syntax, pragmatics, and lexicon. Phonology refers to the study of a language's sound patterns. Semantics involves the study of meaning in language. Syntax examines the rules of a language that determine how words form sentences. Pragmatics studies of the way words are used in social context to convey social meaning. And a lexicon is the vocabulary of a given language. These are the five areas of comprehension necessary for full grasp of a language. The sounds, patterns, words, grammar and meaning of a language cannot be understood independently of one another. Thus, as she develops, a child must be able to gain proficiency in these five components in order to communicate fully with others. Language Acquisition Together, the five elements of language make up the complex geography of language that every human being mu...

Adolescence is a challenging time.  Physical, mental and social development occurs at a whirlwind pace. Helping two or more children together through this transition to adulthood is both gratifying and mystifying to parents. Fortunately, most twins have no greater trouble than singletons in navigating adolescence, and some find it easier. Twin studies in Finland revealed that twins smoked less, drank less alcohol and were more physically active than singletons, so teen twins may actually be healthier than their peers! Physical growth Profound physical changes occur during adolescence. Girls hit their peak growth rate about two years before boys. Identical twins tend to be very close in the timing of growth spurts and in their adult height and weight. Even identical twins with very different birth weights tend to be similar in size by the time they reach puberty, although a smaller child may not entirely catch up. Fraternal twins may go through puberty at different times. F...

Improve your self confidence Some are frighteningly under confident in social situations. And although people who know us now would never believe that we  used to doubt ourselves so much we had to  literally  learn confidence until it became a natural part of us.we can ask everyone to be  relaxed ,optimistic, confidence is just, as well so much more fun. Some people have naturally high levels of confidence but everybody can learn to be more confident Firstly, it's important to get a clear idea of what self confidence really means, otherwise you won't know when you've got it! So, self confidence means: 1) Being calm. For every situation in life you need to run on the appropriate level of emotion. Too much emotional 'leakage' into a experience can spoil the experience. You make great strides towards confidence when you begin to relax in a greater range of situations. 2) Being cool. The second part of self confidence is about being able to relax wit...

I am doing a  project on how parents can motivate students to achieve and maintain academic success. The lack of motivation begins early in elementary school when kids are NOT SUCCESSFUL in mastering the basic operations of arithmetic and are NOT fluent readers. Instead of focusing on developing fluency in both numbers and reading these kids are passed on to the next grade with the hope that they'll catch on. Well, they get older and are embarrassed that their peers CAN DO but they can NOT so they start acting out to cover their shortcomings. Their attendance drops stunting their academic growth further. Also, due to their increasing misbehavior results in repeated suspensions. This adds to putting them further behind their peers. Nevertheless the adminstrator keep on socially promoting them to the next grade. These kids arrive in high school fully aware that they know next to nothing. They know that no matter what they do admin  will bend over backwards to get them wh...

Teachers as education Volunteers and those volunteership is for the teachers.. Within every teachers... "To endure what is, we must remember what was, and dream of things as they will one day be." Global Theory of Change states, "We believe that it is only when people step forward either as local, national or global citizens, sustainable change happens. By enabling people and, in turn, their organisations and communities to play a more active role in development, good volunteering provides the means through which the essential pre-conditions for systemic and sustainable change ownership, participation, empowerment and inclusion can be realised." In this regard, interpersonal relationships are central core to our mission. It  has enabled many to build networks through which we give awareness first then inspire, engage and connect people. From there, we encourage the sharing of skills, knowledge and experience to support  inclusive education that enables...

Annapoorni Balan Principal, IUEf SECRETARY GENERAL, The UN volunteers for Pooma Educational Trust Career indecision and indecisiveness The career indecision construct is used in the literature to underline the problems that can arise during career decision-making. The construct is designed to explain why some individuals experience uncertainty about their educational and vocational future while others are more involved and confident in making their own choices. From a theoretical point of view, different approaches can be used to examine different aspects of indecision . The vocational interests approach, holds that indecision results from difficulties in personal and vocational identity and from insufficient crystallization of interests. One of the theory categorizes individuals into six personality types that correspond to specific professional areas.  Accordingly, individuals who belong simultaneously to two or more types could be more  undecided about which career ...

Annapoorni Balan Principal, IUEf SECRETARY GENERAL, The UN volunteers for Pooma Educational Trust Career indecision and indecisiveness The career indecision construct is used in the literature to underline the problems that can arise during career decision-making. The construct is designed to explain why some individuals experience uncertainty about their educational and vocational future while others are more involved and confident in making their own choices. From a theoretical point of view, different approaches can be used to examine different aspects of indecision . The vocational interests approach, holds that indecision results from difficulties in personal and vocational identity and from insufficient crystallization of interests. One of the theory categorizes individuals into six personality types that correspond to specific professional areas.  Accordingly, individuals who belong simultaneously to two or more types could be more  undecided about which career ...

ASHA MITTAL, IUEf senator of Punjab for Pooma Educational Trust. https://iuef5.blogspot.com/2018/10/asha-mittal-iuef-senator-for-pooma.html?m=1 Before enrolling in any of the foreign language course, the student must ask himself; does the prospect of being multi lingual appeal him? Does the idea of fluency in foreign languages entice him? In case, the answer is in yes, well, then, here's some good news for the likes of him/her. It has become a highly paying profession over the last few years. The prospects are really bright for the people fluent in foreign languages. With a large number of foreign companies having established themselves in India and other Asian countries quite successfully, the demand for multi lingual professionals is rapidly and continually increasing. What are the prospects after learning a particular foreign language? Anyone may ask. Well, to begin with, many. If one is proficient in the language and wants a secure and laid-back job, he/she could opt for a ...