SUBSCRIBE an educational initiative
Children’s Monthly Magazines
Note: Heads of Schools may encourage children to subscribe for the magazines. For Subscriptions Contact:
8-3-191/565/K, Vengalarao Nagar, SR Nagar Post, Hyderabad - 500 038, Telangana, India Contact No. : 040- 65 51 51 51, +91 9494 43 9444 Email: info@brainfeedgroup.com | www.brainfeedgroup.com | www.brainfeedmagazine.com
BFM JULY 16 FINAL_Kala.indd 3
02/07/2016 3:21:07 PM
JULY 2016
C O N TE NT S
volume IV issue 4
Shri. Swami Madhavpriyadasji President, SGVP
COVER STORY
WHY IS FEE HIKE NECESSARY FOR PRIVATE SCHOOLS?
16
Institutional Profile
21 Dr. Ashok Kumar Pandey Principal, Ahlcon International School
Mentoring
36 BRAINFEED GROUP LAUNCHES CHILDREN’S MONTHLY MAGAZINES
EVENT REPORT
Mrs. Meenal Arora Executive Director SHEMROCK Preschools
32
Parenting
42 Shri. Ananth Narayan Mahadevan Screen Writer, Actor and Director, Hindi and Marathi
26 38 46 50 54 55 56 58
Co-operative Group Learning
06 07 08 14 15 24 29
Film Review Readers Column Editorial News
44
Education
Mr. Peeyush Khare PhD student at Yale University, USA
Parenting Special feature Change Makers
Special feature
48
Education Special Feature Dr. Sadhana R Shahi Asst. Professor, Govt College of Pharmacy, Aurangabad
Sports Event Review British Council
Career
Language Study Mind Mine
4
BFM JULY 16 FINAL_Kala.indd 4
40
Inclusive Education
52
july 16
02/07/2016 3:21:14 PM
BFM JULY 16 FINAL_Kala.indd 5
02/07/2016 3:21:15 PM
READERS’ COLUMN Principal as Leader The new concept by Brainfeed ‘Principal as Leader’ is commendable. It is true that the principal is always in the hot seat to improve teaching and learning and is balanced between rewarding and being challenging. The queries by the principals and the responses by Dr.Ashok Pandey are very informative and practiced as many school principals would be having the same thought in their minds.
NEW CONCEPT
Mr. A. K. Mishra, Principal, KC Public School, Odisha
The New Sports Headlines
WATCH
LISTEN
Now you can read as well as listen to your favourite article and also watch videos on education, career, sports, skill building, entertainment and a lot more. Brainfeed magazine started presenting a new concept – that is you can listen to your favourite article being read by experts while you go through the article. And also watch videos of your interest from the list of videos given in the magazine. This is how it works
Many children turn to the sports page in the newspaper to read about their favourite sport. It is true that the scenario is different now-a-days. The positive information on the sports page has dried up and children get to know more about corruption, match fixing etc. The responsibility lies with the parents and the sports teacher to explain the children that the bad news is only a small part of the overall sports world and there is a lot of good stuff happening. Mr. Venkatesh .K, Bengaluru
Helping Street Children A foreigner earning the love of 200 slum children in Pune is really great. It is a good motivational article, for all of us. It is good to know that these children are provided with good education as well as regular medical checkup. Being Indian citizens why can’t we take such initiatives? If we do so, the country will grow to newer heights. Ms. Sirisha. M, Chennai
• A QR code sign will be given along with the article or the video. • All you need is a QR code scanner or QR code reader app on your Smartphone. • Download the app from Google play store or Apple app store. • Open the application, focus and hold the camera on the QR code of the article or the video you want to listen to or watch. • Then the QR code will lead you to the audio file of an educational expert, read the article for you or to the video that you wanted to watch. Don’t you think this is cool – so go on, read like an expert reader by just listening to an expert reader, read an article for you or watch a video to learn about an issue or topic or to learn a new skill.
6
BFM JULY 16 FINAL_Kala.indd 6
International Conference The INDO-UAE School Education Leadership Conference held at Dubai has been a great opportunity for school educators and curriculum planners. I am sure the delegates who attended the conference was benefited by the proceedings and would carry them to their schools for further development. I will be looking forward to such conferences organized by Brainfeed. Mr. B.S.N. Murthy, Director, Kennedy High School, Hyderabad
Learning is Fun Being a teacher, I always think about how to make the class interesting and innovative. I use lots of teaching aids in my class and update myself to the new technology. After going through the video ‘Turning Trash into Toys for Learning’ by Mr. Arvind Gupta, I got even more ideas. Every teacher must watch this video so as to know, how small materials like match sticks, cycle tubes can be used to make teaching aids. Ms. Poornima Sinha, Teacher, Bhavan’s Vidyalaya, Gujarat
july 16
02/07/2016 3:21:15 PM