Brainfeed Magazine ,June 2016

RNI No: APENG/2013/49994

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

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

Scan for more Info

June 2016 Volume IV Issue 3

A MONTHLY EDUCATIONAL INITIATIVE

`75

CHALLENGES OF

PRE-SCHOOL EDUCATION IN INDIA

INDO-UAE

SCHOOL EDUCATION LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE - 2016

MENTORING Principal as Leader

32

REPORT

ACHIEVEMENT Success of Chekuri Kirthi

37

SPECIAL FEATURE School Education At Crossroads

38

INITIATIVE Ashraya Initiative for Children

43

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

michampsindia.com www.facebook.com/michampsindia

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

michampsindia.com www.facebook.com/michampsindia

an educational initiative

has launched Monthly Magazines

EXCLUSIVELY FOR STUDENTS in

APRIL 2016

for

for

6-10

3-6

age group

age group

for

10-16 age group

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 JUN 16 FINAL_Inner Pages_Kala.indd 3

04/06/2016 12:27:14 PM

JUNE 2016

C O N TE NT S

volume IV issue 3

Dr. Ashok Kumar Pandey Principal, Ahlcon International School

COVER STORY

CHALLENGES OF PRE-SCHOOL EDUCATION IN INDIA

16

Mentoring

32 Dr. Manisha Mehta Principal, Excelsior American School, Gurgaon

Education

34 EVENT REPORT

INDO-UAE CONFERENCE REPORT

Dr. Dinesh C Sharma Principal, Vidyasagar School, Indore

20

Institutional Profile

42 Elizabeth Sholtys Co-founder of Ashraya Initiative for Children, Pune

Initiative

06 Readers Column 07 Editorial

46

08 News Ms. Revathi Balakrishnan Works with gifted students at Patsy Sommer Elementary

19 Special feature 37 Achievement Education At 38 School Crossroads

41 Parenting

Special feature

48

44 Enterprise 50 Sports

Mr. Sanjay Kapur World’s renowned Master Tea Taster

54 Special feature 55 British Council

Career

56 Language Study 58 Mind Mine 4

45

Defamation Case Against Minister

52

june16

BFM JUN 16 FINAL_Inner Pages_Kala.indd 4

04/06/2016 12:27:16 PM

BFM JUN 16 FINAL_Inner Pages_Kala.indd 5

04/06/2016 12:27:19 PM

READERS’ COLUMN Household Chores for Children The responsibility to develop a child lies on the upbringing by the parents. The article related to parenting has given good ideas of how to make the children responsible. But as a parent, I feel that it is not easy to convince the teenagers to involve in this work. I request Brainfeed to provide some expert’s opinion on how to manage with teens and their anger.

NEW CONCEPT

Ms. S. Prabhavathi, Hyderabad

Civil Services Examination

WATCH

LISTEN

Mr Israel Jebasingh has suggested practical information to both the school management as well as the students about preparing for the Civil Services. If they can follow the given tips, it is sure that anyone can crack Civil Services. I hope Brainfeed will bring out many such interviews that can be a motivation for everyone.

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.

Mr. Joseph David, Bengaluru

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.

Money management skills are to be inculcated in the students right from their young age. This will develop the saving habits and inculcate value of money in them. The article related to it will give a good idea for students and equip them with the skills to secure a good financial future. It will be good if saving systems will be implemented in every school to know about money management.

This is how it works

Mr. T.Parthiban, 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

Money Management Skills

Importance of Sports It is true that sports and games are important in every walks of life.

Now -a -days, students have become academic oriented. It is good to see that Brainfeed has covered the importance of sports with the opinion of a sports expert as well as the interview with Ms Mithali Raj. Hope this article will really bring some change in the students as well as in the thinking of the parents.

Ms. Nilima Nikhar, PET, Riverdale High School, Aurangabad

Chef Sanjeev Kapoor in Brainfeed!

Felt very good to see the career article where a different career option is introduced. Brainfeed’s initiative to take the interview of the person related to that career is praise worthy. It was good to see the responses from my favourite master chef Sanjeev Kapoor.

Children will surely be more interested to read the responses from such great personalities. .

Ms Suruchi Khana, Chandigarh

june16

BFM JUN 16 FINAL_Inner Pages_Kala.indd 6

04/06/2016 12:27:19 PM

EDITORIAL

june 2016

volume IV

issue 3

Chief Editor Brahmam K V Editor Seshubabu P V Executive Editor Bhageeradha G +91 91775 13996 Sub Editor Vanalatha Reddy T Art & Design Lakshmi D Rakesh N Director-Sales SreeNivas R B +91 85018 26497 Circulation & Photographer Hemachandra Rao S +91 91777 74851 +91 85018 26317 Printed, Published and Owned by Kakani Veera Brahmam

Printed at Kala Jyothi Process Pvt. Ltd. 1-1-60/5, RTC X Roads Hyderabad-500 020, Telangana, India

June beckons monsoon rains! For teachers and students it is a favourite month as schools re-open ending summer vacation, examination results are reviewed and plans unfold for an eventful new academic year!

The results analysis of CBSE 2016 class X and XII has been part of ‘News’ along with Presidential promulgation on NEET. The cover story brings out a comprehensive picture of the ‘Challenges of Pre-School Education in India’ with an in depth study by Ms. Swati Popat Vats. Ms. Anne Sivanathan discusses ‘Experiential Learning in an Inclusive Environment ‘ in the Special Feature.

J

A comprehensive report on ‘Indo-UAE School Education Leadership Conference 2016 held at The Hotel H Dubai on April 30, 2016, is presented in the Event Report. In the monthly feature series commencing this month Dr. Ashok Pandey would be answering the queries of the Principals on “Principal as a Leader”. ‘What is Right for my Child for University Admission?’ by Dr. Manisha Mehta discusses the right choice of education parents could take for their children. Achievement is all about the success of Ms. Chekuri Kirthi, the topper in UPSC 2015, from the two Telugu states.

Scan for more Info

CHECK OUT OUR WEBSITE & E-MAG brainfeedmagazine.com AND FOLLOW US ON facebook.com/ brainfeededumag

Mr .T. R. Gupta explains what is wrong with our school education in the special feature ‘School Education at Cross roads’. Dr. Shyama Chona describes the art of parenting in “Teach Children to talk about their feelings”. Dr. D.C. Sharma talks about personality development through all round growth in the ‘Institutional Profile’ of his school. While Iris Florets’ success journey is very enterprising!

‘Initiative’ tells how Ms. Elizabeth Sholtys’s initiative helped street children lead a good life. In another special feature, Ms. Revathy Balakrishnan discloses how she has become ‘Texas Elementary Teacher of the Year 2016’.

twitter.com/ brainfeedmagzn

Published from 8-3-191/565/K, Vengal Rao Nagar SR Nagar Post, Hyderabad-500 038 Telangana, India Contact No. : 040- 6551 5151 +91 94944 39444 Email: info@brainfeedmagazine.com brainfeedmagazine@gmail.com

Mr. Saumil Majmudar is cautioning parents about corruption in ‘Sports’. ‘Career’ enlists the qualifications of a tea-taster. Deutsch language has been introduced this month. Listen to the audio for correct pronunciation.

Happy Reading! ppy Rea

www.brainfeedmagazine.com facebook.com/brainfeededumag RNI No. APENG/2013/49994

Brahmam K V Chief Editor june 16

BFM JUN 16 FINAL_Inner Pages_Kala.indd 7

7

04/06/2016 04:40:15 PM

MIND

MINE

CROSSWORD 36 1

Across 1.

The process of cutting down or burning a forest.

3.

In order to harness wind energy, you need to build a__

4.

The average weather patterns of a region.

5.

Black liquid.

Drawn from wells. Can be refined and turned into gasoline.

1.

Man made structure.

Blocks a river.

Used to harness hydroelectric power.

2.

A ____ resource is one that can be used more than once.

5.

The ____ layer of the atmosphere protects us from the sun’s most harmful rays.

6.

The release 6. of harmful substances into the air or water is called ______.

8.

___ gases such as methane contribute to global warming.

One way to help the environment is to ride ____ transportation, such as buses or trains, instead of driving your own car.

9.

______________ dioxide is a gas often created by combustion. It contributes to global warming.

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

KEN KEN 31 1–

42X

13+

1–

7– 4–

17+ 1–

1– 4–

1– 12+

12+ 3

192X

2+

2 4–

30X

1– 3–

96X

7– 20+

64X

18+

1–

How to Solve Ken Ken? Fill the grid with digits so as not to repeat a digit in any row or column.

Digits within each heavily outlined group of squares, called a cage, must combine to make the arithmetic result indicated.

58

Down

A 3X3-square puzzle will use the digits from 1 to 3, a 4X4-square puzzle will use the digits from 1 to 4, etc.

Solving a Ken Ken puzzle involves pure logic and mathematics. No guesswork is needed.

Every puzzle has a unique solution.

This land is very dry. Almost no plants or animals live here. The sun dictates the weather

SUDOKU 36 1

5

3 6 5

In a cage marked with a plus sign, the given number will be the sum of the digits you enter in the squares.

In a cage marked with a minus sign, the given number will be the difference between the digits you enter in the squares ( the lower digit subtracted from the higher one).

7.

2

9 4

8

1

7

8 6

5 6

8 3

5 7

3

7

2 2 3 9

1

june 16

BFM JUN 16 FINAL_Inner Pages_Kala.indd 58

04/06/2016 12:27:57 PM

RNI No: APENG/2013/49994

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

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

Scan for more Info

June 2016 Volume IV Issue 3

A MONTHLY EDUCATIONAL INITIATIVE

`75

CHALLENGES OF

PRE-SCHOOL EDUCATION IN INDIA

INDO-UAE

SCHOOL EDUCATION LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE - 2016

MENTORING Principal as Leader

32

REPORT

ACHIEVEMENT Success of Chekuri Kirthi

37

SPECIAL FEATURE School Education At Crossroads

38

INITIATIVE Ashraya Initiative for Children

43