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the classroom dissemination alone are indicative of the change for good to pull rather than push information into the flower vases like one great author described children’s brains. They are to be heard and acknowledged rather than interrupted and discouraged because at times I agree it seems good that they think out-of-the-box and sometimes out-of-theirshoes which make things escalated. “Use the talent you possess, the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there, except those that sang best,” said Henry Van Dyke. The students by large are equipped with creative prominence through schools, colleges, technological advancement, and industry exposure/interface and onetouch worldly concepts, waiting for their turn to get reasoned. The student never gives an indication to his mentoring authorities that he might have the answer to the posed question or query. The simple strategy is to quarantine the studious quotient. The conception of what is worth depicting is shifting dramatically from teaching to learning, but at a nascent stage, with awareness for a larger race of the academia in this pursuit. It is superficial that a single event Salla Vijay Kumar at any educational organization or any level of hierarchy or any individual or a small group of teachers / facilitators, could catalyze a whole revolution. The enablers or the facilitators – the teachers have always been in the charge since time immemorial with their academic rigor and teaching aid. It is time they give their nod for the learning made fun, equip system and syllabi, tech delivery of notes, assignments online, performance appraisal irrespective of degree of outcome, only the degree of difficulty accounted for. The best people who can do this are… guessing who? You the children!! And if why is your question. It is drawing a mind map by facilitated reflection synthesizing experiences with academic content, keeping you in the lead role will encompass inter disciplinary learning through engagement, experiential as well as explorative approach. The dream of creating this eccentric venue in the existing history of gurukul will only take us a few steps ahead into inter cultural know-how. The learning is going to be christened once again amidst us trying to absolve an apt place for the future generation not a colloquial term global but truly developmental for to-be-learning squadron of students. It is therefore likely to make a viable proposition of the education as resource factories and cultivate LEARNING - AN OBSESSIONAL HABIT. 48 THE PROGRESSIVE SCHOOL JUL-AUG-SEP 2018 www.progressiveschool.in
VIEWPOINT LEARNING: A LIFE-LONG CONTINUOUS PROCESS Rupa Chakravarty Founder Principal, Suncity School, Gurgaon Education is not a preparation for life, it is life itself. Learning is never-ending and we can learn from every aspect of what we observe around us. True educationists know that life is the biggest teacher. Schools must amalgamate formal and informal learning to provide a holistic learning experience and transversal education is the answer to it. Here, Rupa Chakravarthy, Founder Principal, Suncity School, Gurgaon, shares her views on learning beyond classrooms. TPS: There is a long-standing view that only a limited quantity of learning is obtained through formal institutions of learning and informal learning plays a significant role in the empowerment of the individual. This view has been further strengthened by cognitive psychologists. How do you think schools can cope with this Rupa Chakravarty is the founder Principal of Suncity World School and a teacher of English, having experience of teaching CBSE and Cambridge - A levels and IGCSE. She has trained as the IB-Coordinator at Montezuma– Arizona, USA and for Handling of Adolescence in Worcester, USA. She is trained for ‘Leadership strategies’ at IIM- Ahmedabad. She has been an observer on behalf of CBSE numerous times for various examinations and programmes including SQAA. She has been the master trainer for most of the trainings imparted by CBSE – CCE, FA,Mentoring and monitoring SQAA, listening and speaking skills (ASL) and so on. She is an ideator with the CBSEinternational curriculum and she has been training Principals and teachers abroad for three years on behalf of CBSE to implement the CBSE international curriculum in CBSE schools abroad, for which the pilot project is presently being implemented in a few schools including SUNCITY. She is on the ‘Core committee’ of reforms being implemented by CBSE. She has also won various awards for her work.Her ultimate aim is to work towards being and moulding ‘Able and noble’ human beings. www.progressiveschool.in situation by synergizing formal and informal learning modes? Rupa: Education is not a preparation for life, it is life itself. Learning is ever encompassing of every aspect of what we observe around us. Learning though is categorised into formal and informal but true educationists know that life is the teacher. Like for our ancestors, they learnt from nature; from the mistakes made by them while out hunting and from the food found in the wilderness that they ate and later with the coming of civilization in the crops that they grew, the speech they developed and so on. Formal learning is in fact just tabulation of the observation of life’s findings, factual demonstrations, experiences that informal learning around us provides to make learning easier but it is not meant to substitute but only complement informal learning because true learning is all informal. To put into black and white, the concept of formal and informal learning all classroom, structural learning is formal learning and learning through life’s experiences are informal learning. Schools must amalgamate formal and informal learning to provide a holistic learning experience and transversal education is the answer to it. So what is transversal learning? Experiential learning gives just two dimensions of learning-knowledge and experience (application) but Transversal learning provides knowledge, experience (application) and a third dimension - skills for employability. Only if we implement Transversal learning will the true ethos and spirit of education be truly learnt. TPS: Can you suggest a few informal instruments of learning provided by schools that help in this process of empowerment of the individual and how do they play a scaffolding role in learning? Rupa: Learning is everywhere. What we need to take cognizance of is that every interaction we have with a child should be a step to internalize another learning. To help empower students, we must enhance their thinking skills, their power of observation and their critical and creative thinking skills. When a child runs in the corridor, teachers in almost all schools usually say-“Stop! or Don’t run”. To develop their critical thinking skill, we should give them open ended questions like in a situation where they are running, we should ask, “Are you supposed to be running in the corridors? What will happen if you run?” The power of observation is another informal instrument of learning. To organize games like treasure hunt, find the clue, memory game, find the difference, can play a scaffolding role infusing informal learning with a formal one. TPS: With a high thrust on competitive learning, most schools appear to have neglected or marginalized such vital requirements and appear to be promoting rote learning preparing the students for a rat race. In this context what do you think are the future challenges and how do you think schools can cope with them? Rupa: With increase in our country’s population, competitiveness cannot be ignored. It is going to be there for a while JUL-AUG-SEP 2018 THE PROGRESSIVE SCHOOL 49
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