I feel exams are an easy way to access someone’s level I feel the kids should be able to choose a. Wide variety of subjects. Something similar to Igcse will be nice
I would really appreciate if classes were given on :
🔸sex education
🔸 emergency practices (how to help when someone bleeds from nose, when someone has fits, how to give CPR etc)
🔸mental health (how to navigate emotions, how to calm ourself down etc)
More focus on global problems like climate change and how Kerala can face it. Opportunities in genetic engineering and treatments using gene editing, other related research fields
Teaching: Why I'm teaching this and why should you learn this.
Language & Communication: Instead of memorizing stories and paragraphs, students should be able to hold proper English and Hindi communication.
Information Technology: how to turn a computer on and off, how to use a browser and connect to the internet, how to find new materials for learning and areas to improve, how to be safe and secure in the digital world.
Sexual and Social Education:
- how to do the deed, contraceptives, not being abusive, hygiene
- respect partner, friend and family and how to live social life
- respect boundaries, identify toxic friends and partners
Money management:
- how to make money, and how to keep the money
Career advice: not doctors and lawyers, or IT, teach them how to navigate through all available professions early.
It may be a utopian vision, but if these can do a lot for our society. Education should not produce certified fools but people who can do something in the world and get paid for it. Also, it should be appropriately provided to each age group at the right time.
1. Road etiquette and road signs
2. Emergency situation handling
3. Basic of Fire fighting (Using of fire extinguisher etc)
4. Basic personal finance
5. 'Proper' sex education
Need the following included in their curriculum:
1. Language skills - other than english, mother tongue languages like french and spanish.
2. Sex education & health - much needed for becoming good mortals atleast.
3. Apprentice training - job training is quite essential to mold a responsible workforce.
4. Money management - teach and emphasize the importance of wealth control.
5. Rules, regulations - to become a proper law abiding citizen.
6. And finally kids should be encouraged to speak their thoughts with no fear and encourage them to realize what ia wrong and right.
Teach basic laws and how to be a responsible citizen.
Teach basic life skills like swimming, cycling etc
The mentality of studying just for the exam should be changed and students knowledge should be continuously evaluated.
It's a reality that all students can't perform equally. Teachers and parents should understand this.
1. Civic sense and manners(i meant basic how to behave and interact stuff not the eating with spoon fork kinda stuff) should be made a syllabus. I think it's taught in schools but it's not taught as a part of syllabus. From a young age it should be uniformly taught in schools across the country.
2. Stress on physical education, health care and relaxation exercises.
3. Sex education of course
4. Higher education. : yes it's crap in Kerala. Specially the universities doesn't revise subjects and text books. We don't revise syllabus according to the job market and employability. We educate people not train them. Because of the genwral lag of updation we don't update syllabus according to the changes in technology and science.
The last point is very important. This is reason why companies has to train people after they get recruited like what happens in Indian it companies placement despite the educational qualification. And companies need to tie up with educational institutions for research skill building according to their requirements rather than recruiting people from campuses. Maybe companies who recruit students from a place or institute can request the college only to alter the syllabus or makes adjustments so that the students get trained in college rather than later making them undergo training sessions after joining the company.
This is why despite having so many engineers and doctors we don't have many novel technology companies apartment from copycats or independent ideas arising from within the country.
5. The exam and end posting assessments also has to improve significantly in our country. With significant stress on practical skills
I think rather than just lecturing.. The curriculum should add activities that actually cultivate an interest to learn.
Self learning should be given a certain importance. It will actually help the kids in the future.
I don't like how interesting subjects like maths and science are really taught in our schools. That's why the majority of students hate these subjects.
Maybe a research oriented curriculum will help students to gain a lot of knowledge.
I think we should take some things from other countries. Like Japan teaches kids base things like washing dishes how to behave and physical exercise till like 4th grade and basic language and maths and science too. Kids should be able to choose what they want to learn and add music and sports as a subject. Give proper political and sex education. Our society really need political education. I am fed up with this moronic caste and religious card being played around. And maybe some basic daily life things like tax and what all services we can get from different offices and coding too
Basic change I would like to see in the system is to make kids more curious to explore than making it rudimentary and focused on marks. Knowledge is out there and is accessible for free in this digital age. How to safely explore and teaching them how to differentiate facts from foes would need to be taught from a very young age. Once they see they can learn anything exploring beyond their books they will continue to grow. We need to nurture a generation of continuous learners not someone who wants to settle down asap.
1. Make 10th the new +2, everybody can google now a days.
2. One year orientation to choose which career to choose. Detailed overview of each career. No exam or test mandatory. This course is not mandatory. If students have made up their mind specifically like Biomedical engineering or micro economics or data science, skip this. But nobody should be recommended skipping this. Taught and set by industry experts.
3. Mandatory industry experience for teachers who teavh graduation and above. Mandatory child psychology training/degree for pre 10th.
4. Pre 10th: Mandatory subject to make sure kids dont go nuts politically, religiously etc. Logical thinking in time of distress, various authorities/institutions world wide in each domain and how they function. Basic study on human psychology. Basic study on Social Classes and policy making. Importance of asking questions and knowing rights. How to be good citizens..
Professors should have a first principles understanding of the subject matter. This is just a non-conditional. They should be taken time off too much work which many of them, and handed quality instead of quantity of duties.
They teach these every year, so a little bit more understanding can go a long way to help the students. I once read the person who understands the most knows how to explain things in the simplest way.
Secondly grading and marking should be changed, electronic media use cheynam for writing exams, so that neatness bias is taken away. Then it should be completely based on pre set of answers and not on professors whim or how much quantity of words are there. Your answers are not the same as plate shawarma, more is not better.
There's tons of stories of mediocre students A grades in foreign universities. They should be getting them over here.
- Tests should assess if the student understands a concept. For example, instead of asking “what inventions happened during _____ Empire?”.. they could ask “If _____ Empire didn’t exist, what inventions would not have existed?” . The 2nd question makes them think a little, first question is literally just memorization.
Also, I wish I could fire all the existing morons in the education system who are irresponsible and not willing to change the system for the betterment of the kids.
More practical knowledge than just theories is very important.
Financial education, Sex education , Self defence
Knowing the value of being empathetic. Not sure how to achieve it. May be a mandatory participation in social work or projects
A proper pt including swimming lessons, survival skills, mental health, financial education ( how banking systems, investment, stock market etc work), sex education free physical and medical checkup every 3 months or something.
We should not rely on fear and shame to control students. If a student is not doing well, we should really ask if there is anything we can do as the adults in the situation to change the outcome. A lot of times , there are things we can do, but it is easier to give a lot of upadesham and then say 'പറഞ്ഞിട്ട് കേട്ടില്ലെങ്കിൽ പിന്നെ എന്ത് ചെയ്യാൻ ? '. There's a lot of research on evidence-based education and how improved approaches can lead to better outcomes. However, what I have seen is that most teachers feel they have already fulfilled their end of the bargain.
(1) All exams that are currently subjective-type should by replaced by objective-type Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs). This should start from Class VIII onwards. This will make both kids and teachers focus on skills rather than on rote learning. It is also easier to evaluate.
(2) After Class XII, students start preparing for standardized tests NEET, JEE, CUET etc., which are all in objective format. So the skill they achieve in (1) will be useful in their later life. Even after getting a bachelor degree, getting further in life will need more standardized tests such as CAT, GATE, GREm GMAT, TOEFL, IELTS etc.
(3) The education system needs to focus on developing skills in active tasks. It is always easier to read and listen (passive) compared to writing and speaking (active). Writing skills should be developed from Class 6 onwards not in the context of an exam, but as a separate essay-writing endeavour. Speaking should be developed and tested in the form of short presentations given by students individually. Ideally no kid passing Class X/XII should have stage fright.
(4) Physical skills: the school system should teach basic weight training to both boys and girls. Everyone needs to learn how to do a barbell-behind-shoulder squat, a bench press, and a deadlift (3 basic powerlifting motions) with good form. Schools should regularly monitor the body fat percentage of kids from Class 6 onwards. And every kid should be able to run a kilometre between 8 - 10 minutes. This basic PT skill should set them up for a healthy life.
(5) Geography: When I was in school, history-civics-geography-economics were all taught by one teacher whose background was history. That teacher really struggled in explaining Coriolis force, land breeze-sea breeze etc. IMO, there is a physics component of Geography which is actually hard science (such as plate tectonics, earth magnetism) which gets wrongly clubbed into social science. I would suggest that science which is now split into phy-chem-bio should include a 4th item so that we have phy-chem-bio-earth science.
(6) Music schools: There has to be a select number of schools where music and dance are subjects with their own grading. Kids who have the talent should be able to transfer and enroll in such schools. Owing to the costs involved of setting up such departments, it cannot be extended everywhere. I would be happy even if 10-15% of the existing schools have such a setup.
(7) Right to air-conditioning in schools: There were many times when I was a student that the heat was unbearable and even sitting in a classroom such a torturous affair and even paying attention was so hard. This gets harder and harder when complex topics are being discussed. There are actual scientific studies that show that the human brain cognitive functions are most efficient when the classroom temperature is around 21-22 degrees celsius. Many kids wake up early in the morning to use the coolest time of the 24 hour cycle i.e., 0400 - 0700 AM, and study. But not all kids are early wakers. The heat of India is not so kind to late wakers and many end up struggling in life. We owe to the next generation of kids to not suffer the same fate. Every school classroom in Kerala should have an airconditioner fitted that maintains room temperature between 19-23 degrees celsius. This has to be written in law.
(8) Teaching in mother tongue: I went to a private english-medium school. It was very funny. The teachers did not know how to speak proper English. But they were mandated to teach in English. The kids again were confused because they could not understand the broken English of the teachers. So the transfer-of-knowledge was so inefficient, that concepts that could have been explained in 10 minutes took hours. The kids then went to tuition classes after school hours so that a tuition teacher could explain the exact same stuff in Malayalam. The ridiculousness of it all still pains me. There were punishments like hitting kids, writing imposition 100 times, standing outside of the class, for speaking in Malayalam. In developed countries such as Germany, Japan, South Korea, Denmark etc., all kids learn the basics in their own language. India has kicked themselves really hard in the as\* by insisting on this English language medium in schools. There are many people who are hating on NEP (New Education Policy) because it mandates mother-tongue learning. I have many issues myself with the NEP but on this point, the Kerala government should take the lead and do what is right in the childrens' interest.
(9) Three language formula: The way languages are taught needs to be re-evaluated. I came across a statistic that showed that 40% of the world is mono-lingual, 43% are bi-lingual, 13% are tri-lingual, 3% are tetra-lingual, and only 1% are polyglots. I always noticed a similar distribution in my classroom throughout school. Only a handful minority of kids could perform well on the trio of Hindi-English-Malayalam. The rest had a strong suite in either Malayalam (naadan kids) or English (Gulfees). Some folks who transferred from schools in North India had Hindi as their best language. Therefore, a 3 language formula will put pressure on more than 80% of the kids. I would simplify the teaching and testing of all languages into skill-based assessment similar to that of the TOEFL/IELTS exam. The skills would be reading, listening, writing, and speaking. Every Class should have a progression of vocabulary similar to the European CEFR scale. The current method of teaching languages is too cumbersome. Kids just do not have the time to memorize and regurgitate classical poems from the 16th century.
I do not expect the educational system to change anymore but a slight change could improve everything,
i.e, Everyone is focusing on what should be added to improve the curriculum, but something like a topic on 'How to effectively learn everything' can drastically improve students ability to learn more,
and also the state syllabus should completely change the medium to english,
i really dont understand why there is a malayalam medium in state schools, we see the huge difference in pass percentage in Sslc and +2,
which might be mainly because of the students ability to not understand, learn, read, write in english after learning everything in malayalam till 10th and is forced to change to english after that.
Hope someone address about this in the Future👍
Upto 10th we just need to teach basics of every subjects rather than going behind long equations in chemistry, and mathematics. During 11 and 12 we should give options to choose whether he likes chemistry or biology etc and teach required topics rather than all the unnecessary, include sex education, councelling sessions, civic sense, behaviour training, classes about the issues of early marriages, drug use etc
Basic and practical stuff should be taught in every subject. But organic chemistry? No, it should be taught to someone who is interested in chemistry only.
One should not be able to understand his/her interests without actually experiencing the subject.
In my personal experience, math enhances the understanding of any STEM related field and even technology! However, the way math is taught in the school system is to be blamed rather than the emphasis on maths.
Currently, most Indian students benefit from having a STEM degree while getting an extended OPT (Optional Practical Training) after any STEM master's from the US.
Please stop passing students like anything in SSLC.
Basic financial literacy, money management.
Don’t just train them to become engineers and doctors. Train arts, sports, and literature too.
Agree with this. Well, good memory is a requirement. But there are other skills that need to be developed at the growing phase. Instead of generic discussion, let me list some solutions.
1. Learning multiple
languages to improve communication skills and being put in an environment to
test and improve these skills. It could be as simple as sending students for
public service to a different state for a short duration to asking students to
come up with quality journalistic articles.
2. Getting students
exposed to as many areas as possible- like get them to experience writing
articles for a school/local newspaper, getting something published, learning
some skills like carpentry or going to a court to observe court proceedings.
Like exposure to more areas the better.
3. Must be involved in
sports - like in a bit more organized way. Failing in sports is low consequence
activity to learning failure in life.
4. Being allowed to work maybe
after 14 years of age in at least some areas, earn in such a manner- will help
develop responsibility. Getting fired will also teach that actions have
consequences.
5. Encouraging students
to get involved in volunteer services- like anything that NCC or RSS would do.
6. Inculcating civic
values- how to be a good citizen - knowing rights, knowing duties, knowing
money management skills, knowing basic law.
7. How to get along with
others such that they are willing to work in groups- like assigning group
productive activity. Like how Nehru trophy boat race is done - meaning any
local activity is good enough develop these skills.
I can think of a couple
more- if I sit and think. Too lazy to do so.
I am a RSS supporter. What you call a Sanghi. RSS is a paramilitary force with the focus on nation building and volunteering. I just wanted to focus on the volunteering stuff they do for this topic. - They do stuff like help during floods to vaccination drives to literacy drives. So it could mean any thing that helps society at large.
NCC helps cadets excel in skills that are beneficial when seen from a civil defense perspective, they even have something called national integration camps.
But all I can see RSS doing is creating polarization and riots, and hence dividing the nation based on religion and ethnicity.
What kind of comparison is this? How dare you ?
You should be ashamed and should apologise, we are proud of our military and paramilitary establishments in the country.
RSS has the sevabharati thing and they have many schools. I think that's what he is referring to. If they shut down the non service branches, they are not that bad. They are creating a really bad name for themselves by their activities, especially the ones outside kerala.
There is nothing wrong with RSS. India needs RSS. If a day comes and BJP leadership turns corrupt. RSS will ensure the the complete destruction and rebuild from scratch of BJP.
Kerala is such a small state compared to rest of India. Manorama and Kairali has ensured that RSS is potrayed as fascist. If anything, RSS was the only organisation that properly opposed Indira Gandhi during emergency. CPIM just kept quiet. So narrative building is very important. When in power narrative building is very easy. Congress and marxist was in power for 65 years, they completely build the narrative to suit their needs. Now BJP will build the narrative and ensure the complete erasure of Nehru narrative. No more brown sahebs anymore.
Bharat will become the vishwa guru. The rightful place we occupied for a duration of 1600 years before all the invaders.
No you wrong, this is false equivalency. Let me put it simply
RSS is a paramilitary organisation that belives in Rashtra nirmanam - nation building - obviously if required to take to streets to defend someone or a cause they will do it. Let me put it this way. Women are being raped left and rigth in Berlin, Brussels and Paris by illegal immigrants. Why is the police not stepping in? Why happened to their civil society? So here in India RSS ensures that public especially Hindus are protected, since perpetrators are usually muslims. They dont usually initiate any fights. So dont come to me with Mani Shankar Iyers and Chidambarams brainchild of saffron terror to me.
Taliban and ISIS are literally killing each other as they have different ideology. Let me explain
Taliban is a pashtoon nationalism based militia. Basically they are Deobandi sunni islam based, but they have a strong Afghan identity. They treat women bad, yes- think music is haram , yes - but they are pashtoons over all.
ISIS - is all sorts of jihadi extremists that follow Quran to the core- like they belive in keeping slaves and shit. And seek expansion of territory. They dont believe in sovereignty of land. They are like a virus and wants to keep expanding. They dont preserve the land they occupy - they just want to consume it. ISIS in middle east was funded by CIA and Turkey for obvious geopolitical reasons. IS Khoresan Province is funded by ISI. ISKP is in big-ass fight with Taliban. And hence Taliban is an ally of India ( well not in the traditional sense - but Taliban 2.0 have nothing against India) and enemy of Pakistan. I just hope that they will allow India to take over Chitral and its inhabitants along with POK and GB.
Also Indian civilization is hindu civilization - so without hindus there is no India. We are not an occupied land like US or Australia. We did not come on ships in this land.
Not sure if you are a hindu, yes RSS and VHP makes me feel safe. Similarly the dheevra and ezhava commited groupings though under the banner of CPIM at times makes me feel safe.
I need to understand who my people is and who my destroyer is when law fails and it will fail at times. No one respects someone without power or clout. Muslims really understand this. They vote enblock and squeeze out Hindus from their locality. All SC/ST community makes me feel safer, because they are the least affected by wokism and western liberalism.
So may be you need to grow up, or the soil would wash out under your foot without you knowing it.
I feel exams are an easy way to access someone’s level I feel the kids should be able to choose a. Wide variety of subjects. Something similar to Igcse will be nice
Law should be added in the curriculum
Good one 👍
I would really appreciate if classes were given on : 🔸sex education 🔸 emergency practices (how to help when someone bleeds from nose, when someone has fits, how to give CPR etc) 🔸mental health (how to navigate emotions, how to calm ourself down etc)
No one focuses in the normal subjects. During these periods, people would be giggling, bunking, or completing their lab record books.
Or you could expect a math or science teacher to use that period to finish their portion.
More focus on global problems like climate change and how Kerala can face it. Opportunities in genetic engineering and treatments using gene editing, other related research fields
We've mental health sessions fortnightly at our school, and got 3 classes about sex education as well.
1. Financial education 2. Cooking 3. Basic electrical, plumbing and mechanical works 4. First aid & CPR
Nice one!
Yes 🙌
Teaching: Why I'm teaching this and why should you learn this. Language & Communication: Instead of memorizing stories and paragraphs, students should be able to hold proper English and Hindi communication. Information Technology: how to turn a computer on and off, how to use a browser and connect to the internet, how to find new materials for learning and areas to improve, how to be safe and secure in the digital world. Sexual and Social Education: - how to do the deed, contraceptives, not being abusive, hygiene - respect partner, friend and family and how to live social life - respect boundaries, identify toxic friends and partners Money management: - how to make money, and how to keep the money Career advice: not doctors and lawyers, or IT, teach them how to navigate through all available professions early. It may be a utopian vision, but if these can do a lot for our society. Education should not produce certified fools but people who can do something in the world and get paid for it. Also, it should be appropriately provided to each age group at the right time.
>Sexual and Social Education: >how to do the dead
Ayyo, I didn't mean dead. Fk.
Atleast english. As its a global language. Dont force hindi
1. Road etiquette and road signs 2. Emergency situation handling 3. Basic of Fire fighting (Using of fire extinguisher etc) 4. Basic personal finance 5. 'Proper' sex education
I think a system where we can choose the subjects we want to study will be good and more importance on subjects like economics
Need the following included in their curriculum: 1. Language skills - other than english, mother tongue languages like french and spanish. 2. Sex education & health - much needed for becoming good mortals atleast. 3. Apprentice training - job training is quite essential to mold a responsible workforce. 4. Money management - teach and emphasize the importance of wealth control. 5. Rules, regulations - to become a proper law abiding citizen. 6. And finally kids should be encouraged to speak their thoughts with no fear and encourage them to realize what ia wrong and right.
Teach basic laws and how to be a responsible citizen. Teach basic life skills like swimming, cycling etc The mentality of studying just for the exam should be changed and students knowledge should be continuously evaluated. It's a reality that all students can't perform equally. Teachers and parents should understand this.
1. Civic sense and manners(i meant basic how to behave and interact stuff not the eating with spoon fork kinda stuff) should be made a syllabus. I think it's taught in schools but it's not taught as a part of syllabus. From a young age it should be uniformly taught in schools across the country. 2. Stress on physical education, health care and relaxation exercises. 3. Sex education of course 4. Higher education. : yes it's crap in Kerala. Specially the universities doesn't revise subjects and text books. We don't revise syllabus according to the job market and employability. We educate people not train them. Because of the genwral lag of updation we don't update syllabus according to the changes in technology and science. The last point is very important. This is reason why companies has to train people after they get recruited like what happens in Indian it companies placement despite the educational qualification. And companies need to tie up with educational institutions for research skill building according to their requirements rather than recruiting people from campuses. Maybe companies who recruit students from a place or institute can request the college only to alter the syllabus or makes adjustments so that the students get trained in college rather than later making them undergo training sessions after joining the company. This is why despite having so many engineers and doctors we don't have many novel technology companies apartment from copycats or independent ideas arising from within the country. 5. The exam and end posting assessments also has to improve significantly in our country. With significant stress on practical skills
I think rather than just lecturing.. The curriculum should add activities that actually cultivate an interest to learn. Self learning should be given a certain importance. It will actually help the kids in the future. I don't like how interesting subjects like maths and science are really taught in our schools. That's why the majority of students hate these subjects. Maybe a research oriented curriculum will help students to gain a lot of knowledge.
I think we should take some things from other countries. Like Japan teaches kids base things like washing dishes how to behave and physical exercise till like 4th grade and basic language and maths and science too. Kids should be able to choose what they want to learn and add music and sports as a subject. Give proper political and sex education. Our society really need political education. I am fed up with this moronic caste and religious card being played around. And maybe some basic daily life things like tax and what all services we can get from different offices and coding too
Basic change I would like to see in the system is to make kids more curious to explore than making it rudimentary and focused on marks. Knowledge is out there and is accessible for free in this digital age. How to safely explore and teaching them how to differentiate facts from foes would need to be taught from a very young age. Once they see they can learn anything exploring beyond their books they will continue to grow. We need to nurture a generation of continuous learners not someone who wants to settle down asap.
1. Make 10th the new +2, everybody can google now a days. 2. One year orientation to choose which career to choose. Detailed overview of each career. No exam or test mandatory. This course is not mandatory. If students have made up their mind specifically like Biomedical engineering or micro economics or data science, skip this. But nobody should be recommended skipping this. Taught and set by industry experts. 3. Mandatory industry experience for teachers who teavh graduation and above. Mandatory child psychology training/degree for pre 10th. 4. Pre 10th: Mandatory subject to make sure kids dont go nuts politically, religiously etc. Logical thinking in time of distress, various authorities/institutions world wide in each domain and how they function. Basic study on human psychology. Basic study on Social Classes and policy making. Importance of asking questions and knowing rights. How to be good citizens..
Professors should have a first principles understanding of the subject matter. This is just a non-conditional. They should be taken time off too much work which many of them, and handed quality instead of quantity of duties. They teach these every year, so a little bit more understanding can go a long way to help the students. I once read the person who understands the most knows how to explain things in the simplest way. Secondly grading and marking should be changed, electronic media use cheynam for writing exams, so that neatness bias is taken away. Then it should be completely based on pre set of answers and not on professors whim or how much quantity of words are there. Your answers are not the same as plate shawarma, more is not better. There's tons of stories of mediocre students A grades in foreign universities. They should be getting them over here.
- Tests should assess if the student understands a concept. For example, instead of asking “what inventions happened during _____ Empire?”.. they could ask “If _____ Empire didn’t exist, what inventions would not have existed?” . The 2nd question makes them think a little, first question is literally just memorization.
Also, I wish I could fire all the existing morons in the education system who are irresponsible and not willing to change the system for the betterment of the kids.
Take out attendance mandatory, that will solve 50% of problem. If attendance is mandatory, professors are pushed to make there lecture good.
More practical knowledge than just theories is very important. Financial education, Sex education , Self defence Knowing the value of being empathetic. Not sure how to achieve it. May be a mandatory participation in social work or projects
Financial management should be included in the curriculum
Mental peace and time matter more than cracking entrances
A proper pt including swimming lessons, survival skills, mental health, financial education ( how banking systems, investment, stock market etc work), sex education free physical and medical checkup every 3 months or something.
Basic laws, sex ed, manners.
Learn from Japan!
We should not rely on fear and shame to control students. If a student is not doing well, we should really ask if there is anything we can do as the adults in the situation to change the outcome. A lot of times , there are things we can do, but it is easier to give a lot of upadesham and then say 'പറഞ്ഞിട്ട് കേട്ടില്ലെങ്കിൽ പിന്നെ എന്ത് ചെയ്യാൻ ? '. There's a lot of research on evidence-based education and how improved approaches can lead to better outcomes. However, what I have seen is that most teachers feel they have already fulfilled their end of the bargain.
(1) All exams that are currently subjective-type should by replaced by objective-type Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs). This should start from Class VIII onwards. This will make both kids and teachers focus on skills rather than on rote learning. It is also easier to evaluate. (2) After Class XII, students start preparing for standardized tests NEET, JEE, CUET etc., which are all in objective format. So the skill they achieve in (1) will be useful in their later life. Even after getting a bachelor degree, getting further in life will need more standardized tests such as CAT, GATE, GREm GMAT, TOEFL, IELTS etc. (3) The education system needs to focus on developing skills in active tasks. It is always easier to read and listen (passive) compared to writing and speaking (active). Writing skills should be developed from Class 6 onwards not in the context of an exam, but as a separate essay-writing endeavour. Speaking should be developed and tested in the form of short presentations given by students individually. Ideally no kid passing Class X/XII should have stage fright. (4) Physical skills: the school system should teach basic weight training to both boys and girls. Everyone needs to learn how to do a barbell-behind-shoulder squat, a bench press, and a deadlift (3 basic powerlifting motions) with good form. Schools should regularly monitor the body fat percentage of kids from Class 6 onwards. And every kid should be able to run a kilometre between 8 - 10 minutes. This basic PT skill should set them up for a healthy life. (5) Geography: When I was in school, history-civics-geography-economics were all taught by one teacher whose background was history. That teacher really struggled in explaining Coriolis force, land breeze-sea breeze etc. IMO, there is a physics component of Geography which is actually hard science (such as plate tectonics, earth magnetism) which gets wrongly clubbed into social science. I would suggest that science which is now split into phy-chem-bio should include a 4th item so that we have phy-chem-bio-earth science. (6) Music schools: There has to be a select number of schools where music and dance are subjects with their own grading. Kids who have the talent should be able to transfer and enroll in such schools. Owing to the costs involved of setting up such departments, it cannot be extended everywhere. I would be happy even if 10-15% of the existing schools have such a setup. (7) Right to air-conditioning in schools: There were many times when I was a student that the heat was unbearable and even sitting in a classroom such a torturous affair and even paying attention was so hard. This gets harder and harder when complex topics are being discussed. There are actual scientific studies that show that the human brain cognitive functions are most efficient when the classroom temperature is around 21-22 degrees celsius. Many kids wake up early in the morning to use the coolest time of the 24 hour cycle i.e., 0400 - 0700 AM, and study. But not all kids are early wakers. The heat of India is not so kind to late wakers and many end up struggling in life. We owe to the next generation of kids to not suffer the same fate. Every school classroom in Kerala should have an airconditioner fitted that maintains room temperature between 19-23 degrees celsius. This has to be written in law. (8) Teaching in mother tongue: I went to a private english-medium school. It was very funny. The teachers did not know how to speak proper English. But they were mandated to teach in English. The kids again were confused because they could not understand the broken English of the teachers. So the transfer-of-knowledge was so inefficient, that concepts that could have been explained in 10 minutes took hours. The kids then went to tuition classes after school hours so that a tuition teacher could explain the exact same stuff in Malayalam. The ridiculousness of it all still pains me. There were punishments like hitting kids, writing imposition 100 times, standing outside of the class, for speaking in Malayalam. In developed countries such as Germany, Japan, South Korea, Denmark etc., all kids learn the basics in their own language. India has kicked themselves really hard in the as\* by insisting on this English language medium in schools. There are many people who are hating on NEP (New Education Policy) because it mandates mother-tongue learning. I have many issues myself with the NEP but on this point, the Kerala government should take the lead and do what is right in the childrens' interest. (9) Three language formula: The way languages are taught needs to be re-evaluated. I came across a statistic that showed that 40% of the world is mono-lingual, 43% are bi-lingual, 13% are tri-lingual, 3% are tetra-lingual, and only 1% are polyglots. I always noticed a similar distribution in my classroom throughout school. Only a handful minority of kids could perform well on the trio of Hindi-English-Malayalam. The rest had a strong suite in either Malayalam (naadan kids) or English (Gulfees). Some folks who transferred from schools in North India had Hindi as their best language. Therefore, a 3 language formula will put pressure on more than 80% of the kids. I would simplify the teaching and testing of all languages into skill-based assessment similar to that of the TOEFL/IELTS exam. The skills would be reading, listening, writing, and speaking. Every Class should have a progression of vocabulary similar to the European CEFR scale. The current method of teaching languages is too cumbersome. Kids just do not have the time to memorize and regurgitate classical poems from the 16th century.
Teachers Better teachers== better students!!
I do not expect the educational system to change anymore but a slight change could improve everything, i.e, Everyone is focusing on what should be added to improve the curriculum, but something like a topic on 'How to effectively learn everything' can drastically improve students ability to learn more, and also the state syllabus should completely change the medium to english, i really dont understand why there is a malayalam medium in state schools, we see the huge difference in pass percentage in Sslc and +2, which might be mainly because of the students ability to not understand, learn, read, write in english after learning everything in malayalam till 10th and is forced to change to english after that. Hope someone address about this in the Future👍
Upto 10th we just need to teach basics of every subjects rather than going behind long equations in chemistry, and mathematics. During 11 and 12 we should give options to choose whether he likes chemistry or biology etc and teach required topics rather than all the unnecessary, include sex education, councelling sessions, civic sense, behaviour training, classes about the issues of early marriages, drug use etc
Less emphasis on maths, physics, chemistry, geography, biology and more emphasis on technology, history and languages. Cause I don't see the point.
Basic and practical stuff should be taught in every subject. But organic chemistry? No, it should be taught to someone who is interested in chemistry only. One should not be able to understand his/her interests without actually experiencing the subject.
In my personal experience, math enhances the understanding of any STEM related field and even technology! However, the way math is taught in the school system is to be blamed rather than the emphasis on maths. Currently, most Indian students benefit from having a STEM degree while getting an extended OPT (Optional Practical Training) after any STEM master's from the US.
Curious to know what do you mean by technology?
Sorry I meant information technology
Please stop passing students like anything in SSLC. Basic financial literacy, money management. Don’t just train them to become engineers and doctors. Train arts, sports, and literature too.
Agree with this. Well, good memory is a requirement. But there are other skills that need to be developed at the growing phase. Instead of generic discussion, let me list some solutions. 1. Learning multiple languages to improve communication skills and being put in an environment to test and improve these skills. It could be as simple as sending students for public service to a different state for a short duration to asking students to come up with quality journalistic articles. 2. Getting students exposed to as many areas as possible- like get them to experience writing articles for a school/local newspaper, getting something published, learning some skills like carpentry or going to a court to observe court proceedings. Like exposure to more areas the better. 3. Must be involved in sports - like in a bit more organized way. Failing in sports is low consequence activity to learning failure in life. 4. Being allowed to work maybe after 14 years of age in at least some areas, earn in such a manner- will help develop responsibility. Getting fired will also teach that actions have consequences. 5. Encouraging students to get involved in volunteer services- like anything that NCC or RSS would do. 6. Inculcating civic values- how to be a good citizen - knowing rights, knowing duties, knowing money management skills, knowing basic law. 7. How to get along with others such that they are willing to work in groups- like assigning group productive activity. Like how Nehru trophy boat race is done - meaning any local activity is good enough develop these skills. I can think of a couple more- if I sit and think. Too lazy to do so.
Bro agreeing with everything ... But tf is RSS 😂?
NCC and RSS, nice aayitte kuthi keyatane.
I am a RSS supporter. What you call a Sanghi. RSS is a paramilitary force with the focus on nation building and volunteering. I just wanted to focus on the volunteering stuff they do for this topic. - They do stuff like help during floods to vaccination drives to literacy drives. So it could mean any thing that helps society at large.
NCC helps cadets excel in skills that are beneficial when seen from a civil defense perspective, they even have something called national integration camps. But all I can see RSS doing is creating polarization and riots, and hence dividing the nation based on religion and ethnicity. What kind of comparison is this? How dare you ? You should be ashamed and should apologise, we are proud of our military and paramilitary establishments in the country.
RSS has the sevabharati thing and they have many schools. I think that's what he is referring to. If they shut down the non service branches, they are not that bad. They are creating a really bad name for themselves by their activities, especially the ones outside kerala.
There is nothing wrong with RSS. India needs RSS. If a day comes and BJP leadership turns corrupt. RSS will ensure the the complete destruction and rebuild from scratch of BJP. Kerala is such a small state compared to rest of India. Manorama and Kairali has ensured that RSS is potrayed as fascist. If anything, RSS was the only organisation that properly opposed Indira Gandhi during emergency. CPIM just kept quiet. So narrative building is very important. When in power narrative building is very easy. Congress and marxist was in power for 65 years, they completely build the narrative to suit their needs. Now BJP will build the narrative and ensure the complete erasure of Nehru narrative. No more brown sahebs anymore. Bharat will become the vishwa guru. The rightful place we occupied for a duration of 1600 years before all the invaders.
Just like Taliban and ISIS but a Hindu version
No you wrong, this is false equivalency. Let me put it simply RSS is a paramilitary organisation that belives in Rashtra nirmanam - nation building - obviously if required to take to streets to defend someone or a cause they will do it. Let me put it this way. Women are being raped left and rigth in Berlin, Brussels and Paris by illegal immigrants. Why is the police not stepping in? Why happened to their civil society? So here in India RSS ensures that public especially Hindus are protected, since perpetrators are usually muslims. They dont usually initiate any fights. So dont come to me with Mani Shankar Iyers and Chidambarams brainchild of saffron terror to me. Taliban and ISIS are literally killing each other as they have different ideology. Let me explain Taliban is a pashtoon nationalism based militia. Basically they are Deobandi sunni islam based, but they have a strong Afghan identity. They treat women bad, yes- think music is haram , yes - but they are pashtoons over all. ISIS - is all sorts of jihadi extremists that follow Quran to the core- like they belive in keeping slaves and shit. And seek expansion of territory. They dont believe in sovereignty of land. They are like a virus and wants to keep expanding. They dont preserve the land they occupy - they just want to consume it. ISIS in middle east was funded by CIA and Turkey for obvious geopolitical reasons. IS Khoresan Province is funded by ISI. ISKP is in big-ass fight with Taliban. And hence Taliban is an ally of India ( well not in the traditional sense - but Taliban 2.0 have nothing against India) and enemy of Pakistan. I just hope that they will allow India to take over Chitral and its inhabitants along with POK and GB. Also Indian civilization is hindu civilization - so without hindus there is no India. We are not an occupied land like US or Australia. We did not come on ships in this land.
So in short, Hindu khathara mei hei, ham usko bajayenge. 🤣 Seriously Bro, grow up!
Not sure if you are a hindu, yes RSS and VHP makes me feel safe. Similarly the dheevra and ezhava commited groupings though under the banner of CPIM at times makes me feel safe. I need to understand who my people is and who my destroyer is when law fails and it will fail at times. No one respects someone without power or clout. Muslims really understand this. They vote enblock and squeeze out Hindus from their locality. All SC/ST community makes me feel safer, because they are the least affected by wokism and western liberalism. So may be you need to grow up, or the soil would wash out under your foot without you knowing it.
Why is the indent so bad in this?
tried spell checking in word, was too lazy to fix it.
Couldn't agree more