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RNI No: APENG/2013/49994

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Posted at PC Secunderabad on May 7-8, 2016 Date of Publication: May 6, 2016 TM

A BITS Pilani Alumni Initiative

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May 2016 Volume IV Issue 2

A MONTHLY EDUCATIONAL INITIATIVE

`75 ENVISIONED BY Dr. YANDAMOORI VEERENDRANATH

REVEL IN THE JOY OF CHILDHOOD Admissions Open Tots | Nursery | Junior | Senior | Day Care | Activity Club

For the FIRST TIME IN INDIA A UNIQUE COMBINATION OF FIVE INNOVATIVE LEARNING CENTRES

little picasso

iris audi

stage cra

Creative Art & Craft Centre

3D Audio-Visual Theatre

Role Play Area & Amphitheatre

O2

360o

fitness studio

Organic Farming

Soft Gym, Yoga & Aerobics

AWARDS - 2015

IMPORTANCE OF

SPORTS IN SCHOOLS

INDIA PRE - SCHOOL RANKING Indian Education Congress & Awards, 2015 - New Delhi

Brands Academy Excellence Awards 2015 - Bengaluru

Education World India Pre-School Ranking, 2015 - Bengaluru

School Academic Excellence Awards 2015 - Malaysia

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INTERVIEW India’s Pride Ms. Mithali Raj

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MENTOR SPEAKS Dr. Farooq Ahmad Wasil

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MONEY MANAGEMENT Inculcating Money Management in Schools

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CHANGE MAKERS Fruit Seller Builds a School - Hajabba

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INTELLIGENCE, KNOWLEDGE and its APPLICABILITY are the 3 ELEMENTS that set apart a competent student from the other students, to be a top performer.

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Ms. Mithali Raj Captain of the Indian Women’s cricket team

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Interview

23 Dr. Farooq Ahmad Wasil Educationist, Thinker and Author

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26 Mr. Vijay Vishwanath CEO, Alchemy Kids Theatre

06 Readers’ Column 07 Editorial 08 News 14 NEET 29 Special feature – Be Prudent in your praise and appreciation

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46 The School Principal As Leader

49 Mother as a Teacher 54 Event Review 55 British Council 56 Language 58 Mind Mine

Mr. Sanjeev Kapoor Director, Khana Khazana India Pvt Ltd

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READERS’ COLUMN ‘What Makes a Global Teacher?’

It was interesting to read the cover story ‘What Makes a Global Teacher?’. It provided full details of the Top 10 Finalists of Global Teacher Prize. I was happy to see an Indian who could make to top 10. This proves that our country has the potential to compete with other countries in any field and lead to greater heights!

Mr. Krishnan Menon, Bal Bharathi School, Kerala

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The special feature related to autism is useful for the parents and teachers dealing with autistic children where they get some information about the labs and the innovative activities performed in Tamana. It is also good to know that a movie ‘Redha’ was released in Malaysia on April 14 related to autism.

Ms. Anuradha.K, Parent, Pune

Internet Addiction The article related to parenting –‘Impact of Overuse of Screen Technology on Children’ is an eye opener to all the parents and elders. It is true that children are addicted to the technology and have lost the habit of playing outdoor games. Of course parental guidance is necessary but there should be some seminars conducted to the students to know the disadvantages of overuse of screen time.

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Handwriting Activities During Vacation It is true that many children get bored at home during summer vacation. To beat the boredom the handwriting article with activities for summer vacation was really interesting. My friends and I worked out with this activity making more innovative ideas with the base idea given by Mr. Y. Mallikarjuna Rao. Ms. Priya Deshmukh, Class IX, Thakur Vidyalaya, Mumbai

The Man with a Mission The familiar face in Mumbai’s local trains, Mr. Sandeep Desai is indeed a great personality. Now-a-days people are selfish thinking only about themselves, but Mr. Desai has proved that he has a space for the poor in the society. We all should learn a lesson from him and help the poor and needy in whatever way we can.

Mr. Kaushik Mathur, Gujarat

Corrigendum: Under the Health column in April 16 issue, Dr. Paramkusam Nirmala is Ayurveda Siromani and Vaidya Visharada, and not as mentioned.

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he Roman Goddess ‘Maia’ written in Latin “Maius’, refers to May month associated with Growth and Spring. The month experiences peak summer in tropical countries. Schools are closed and students enjoy vacation, learning new life-skills in summer camps, rejuvenating for ensuing academic schedule ahead!

The highlight of ‘News’ is Dipa Karmakar, the first Indian woman gymnast qualifying for Rio Olympics! India getting own Global Positioning System (GPS) has been a feather added to ISRO. ‘Event Review’ covers unique fashion show for autistic and disabled by Tamana Autism Centre.

‘Cover Story’ projects the importance of physical education in schools and ‘Sports Interview’ is with India’s Pride, Mithali Raj, the Indian Women’s Cricket Captain. Dr Farooq Ahmad Wasil, a renowned educationist in UAE shares his invaluable thoughts about education in ‘Mentor Speaks’.

The NEET: A Problem or a Solution? offers a good analysis.‘Mother as a Teacher’ is the special awareness raising feature for children on International Mother’s Day on May 8. ‘Parenting’ is all about keeping boredom among children at bay.

Drama for Development is on ‘Theatre Education’

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‘Money Management’ deals with inculcating money management skills among students while ‘Going beyond Grades’ is discussing evolving the Singapore Education System.

‘Inclusive Education in Schools’ explains how children with disabilities could be embraced in the mainstream education. ‘Competition’ helps students realize their ambition of cracking allIndia services examinations! In ‘Change Makers’ Mr. Sainath reports how a fruit seller has built a school on his own for the community!

‘Communicative Competence is detailed in the special feature’. The special qualities of ‘School Principal as a Leader’ are enlisted. ‘Save Water Save Nation’ strengthens the role of students in ‘Water Management’. ‘Career’ brings about Culinary Arts and the process of cooking and arranging food.

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Kudos to Dipa Karmakar

ripura girl, Dipa Karmakar, 22, created history by becoming the first Indian woman gymnast to qualify for Olympics as she booked a berth for the Rio Games to be held in August. She garnered a total score of 52.698 points in the Olympics qualifying event after a strong performance at the final qualifying and test event.

Apart from being the first Indian woman, she will also be an Indian gymnast qualifying for the quadrennial extravaganza after 52 years. Dipa has been listed as the 79th gymnast among individual qualifiers in the list of women’s artistic gymnast who have qualified for the Rio Olympics.

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Google Science Fair 2016

tudents of age groups, 13-15 and 16-18 are eligible for a global online science and engineering competition with an objective to honour projects that make a practical difference by addressing an environmental, health or resources challenge. Students can register on their own, or as teams of up to three by May 17, 2016. Application can be done through online only. A cash prize will be awarded of $50,000 as Scholarship from Google along with grants, funding, and mentoring for winners. For more details logon to the website http://www.b4s.in/plus/GSF146

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Popularise Sanskrit, HRD tells NCERT

he HRD ministry has instructed NCERT to make Sanskrit popular in schools and also to train five lakh Sanskrit teachers in the next three to four years under Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan and Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan.

NCERT has been asked to submit a status report within three months on the implementation of the three-language formula in secondary schools and the two-language formula in higher secondary schools.

NCERT has been instructed that its report should indicate three languages being offered in schools, the classes covered, how many periods and marks are allotted to Sanskrit and other nine languages.

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Orientation at Ardee

rdee World School, Sector 52, Gurgaon, organized the orientation for students of all classes.

The orientation started with a welcome note by Principal, Ms Sushma Raturi, followed by introduction of teachers. School’s academic coordinator Preeti Sharan introduced the theme of the year Greenathon and related activities. Vice-Principal and Head of Elementary Montessori, Ms Jennifer Wright, explained to parents about academic programmes and activities, students’ planner and monthly parents workshops among other key aspects. She added that Montessori’s aim is to provide students with an environment in which they can thrive through igniting the child’s inner imagination through the cosmic education programme. Each area of the curriculum is designed to develop each child to their fullest potential. Ms. Wright also stated that Montessori motivates students to learn from observation, hands on training and inner motivation. She added that the education system motivates a multitude of intelligence for varied learning styles. Principal Ms Sushma Raturi also briefed parents about the seamless transition from Montessori curriculum to the Cambridge International Examinations curriculum for students of Classes VII onwards. The school offers International General Certificate of Secondary Education (IGCSE), a globally recognized curriculum for 14-16 year olds.

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MDIS: spotlight on India

anagement Development Institute of Singapore (MDIS), a not-for-profit professional institute of learning, has identified five cities, including Coimbatore, Bengaluru, Mumbai, New Delhi and Kolkata to market their courses. The aim is to encourage students from well-to-do families to study in a reputed institution closer home.

The institute, which celebrated its 60th anniversary recently, has already tied up with Vels University in Chennai to offer a few courses.

More than 160 students have taken up programmes in tourism, hospitality and international business. Students study a part of the course in the parent institution and the rest at MDIS to earn their degree.

MDIS does not receive any government funding. “We make money and plough it back into the institute. We have ploughed in two million dollars in scholarships and business,� MDIS secretary general R. Theyvendran said.

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HRD Minister Announces Child Tracking System and other School Initiatives

he HRD Ministry said that a child tracking system will be used for over 200 million children across the country that will help to monitor the child’s progress from one class to another and also identify drop outs.

Moving to other initiatives of the HRD ministry, Smriti Irani said that rather than monitoring the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA), annually, her ministry would track it online daily.

Irani also announced that her ministry is developing an expenditure portal that centralises various sources of school education data in India. She also mentioned a first of its kind portal for Teacher Education Institutions which will ensure transparency and grading.

She also announced that the National Assessment Survey (NAS) which was done once in three years

by NCERT, will now be done annually and the Shala Siddhi scheme of her ministry will be extended to all schools.

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INTELLIGENCE, KNOWLEDGE and its APPLICABILITY are the 3 ELEMENTS that set apart a competent student from the other students, to be a top performer.

miINDIA

Champs

To find, encourage and honour the competent students of our country – Mi Champs India is organizing “All India Challenge Exams” in MATH, SCIENCE and ENGLISH.

AIMCE

All India MATH Challenge Exam

AISCE

All India SCIENCE Challenge Exam

2nd

Prize

AIECE

tab

All India ENGLISH Challenge Exam

3rd

Prize Camera

PRIZES

1st

Prize Laptop

for classes

III-X Registrations

are OPEN for the Academic Year 2016-17

+91 85018 26317 / 91 7777 4851 info@michampsindia.com

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RNI No: APENG/2013/49994

Postal Regd. No: HD/1180/2016-2018

Posted at PC Secunderabad on May 7-8, 2016 Date of Publication: May 6, 2016 TM

A BITS Pilani Alumni Initiative

Scan for more Info

May 2016 Volume IV Issue 2

A MONTHLY EDUCATIONAL INITIATIVE

`75 ENVISIONED BY Dr. YANDAMOORI VEERENDRANATH

REVEL IN THE JOY OF CHILDHOOD Admissions Open Tots | Nursery | Junior | Senior | Day Care | Activity Club

For the FIRST TIME IN INDIA A UNIQUE COMBINATION OF FIVE INNOVATIVE LEARNING CENTRES

little picasso

iris audi

stage cra

Creative Art & Craft Centre

3D Audio-Visual Theatre

Role Play Area & Amphitheatre

O2

360o

fitness studio

Organic Farming

Soft Gym, Yoga & Aerobics

AWARDS - 2015

IMPORTANCE OF

SPORTS IN SCHOOLS

INDIA PRE - SCHOOL RANKING Indian Education Congress & Awards, 2015 - New Delhi

Brands Academy Excellence Awards 2015 - Bengaluru

Education World India Pre-School Ranking, 2015 - Bengaluru

School Academic Excellence Awards 2015 - Malaysia

Start Your Own Play School For Franchise Enquires Contact :

93466 20004 | 93474 97766

TM

SCHOOL PLUS

Toll Free : 1800 1030 630 A SPECIALLY DESIGNED PROGRAM FOR THE EXISTING FORMAL SCHOOLS

A revolutionary beginning with 30+ centres in the first year franchise@irisflorets.com

www.irisflorets.com

www.facebook.com/irisflorets

INTERVIEW India’s Pride Ms. Mithali Raj

23

MENTOR SPEAKS Dr. Farooq Ahmad Wasil

26

MONEY MANAGEMENT Inculcating Money Management in Schools

38

CHANGE MAKERS Fruit Seller Builds a School - Hajabba

43