September ’10 Education is a unique and life changing opportunity for the teacher as well as the taught. A teacher is not just an instructor but a role model and a mind moulder for a whole generation. Think about the madarsas across the world, blaring out propaganda and enrolling the faithful en masse. Over the years, teaching in India has won for itself the dubious distinction of being the most boring job and also the least paid. Often people dismiss education in India as a legacy of the British who needed to mass produce self- important clerks to carry out boring transactions in English in dreary government offices across small towns and tehsils across the sub-continent. Obviously, "It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated." Is that what we have been inflicting upon generations of Indians? Scratch the surface and you’ll realize the scenario is even worse. Many parents today are opting for home schooling over dragging their child through hell and high water to get them admitted to a “good” (read socially acceptable) school or college. Many students who are learning at home are also doing very well. The recent breakthrough by a Delhi boy, 14-year-old Sahal Kaushik who is the youngest Indian to crack the IIT entrance exams is a tale that cannot be dismissed lightly. He was home schooled by his mother! Cities like Bangalore and Pune have scores of kids who are learning at home, helped by their parents. These kids are not being pushed into learning everything like in a school therefore, they are less burdened and pursue a more fruitful education that is focused around the areas of their strength and interest - the results are not bad at all. Does that mean that institutionalized education is on its way out? Not really. Educational institutes are important and a child needs to go to a school to be able to grow socially as a person. It is important to be a part of an institute to be able to understand the competition that he/she will have to face in the future. Shutting down of institutionalized education would leave us with the problem of dealing with the asocial and withdrawn. However, our education system needs to change and there are no two ways about it. The one-way interaction in the classrooms has to give way to a clear two-way transaction. As teachers and academicians, we have to understand that the focal point of any classroom is the students. They are our customers and they need to be satisfied and happy when they go home. We need them to be excited to come back to the classrooms everyday for roughly a decade-and-a-half if not more. Our approach towards teaching needs to be more investigative and project-oriented. Instead of teaching from the books let your students try out other possibilities like experimenting, questioning, creating and research-based outcomes. Let the education they get be useful and fruitful – something they can apply in real life years after they have left their classrooms and moved on. A lot of work is being done in this direction and many schools in big cities are adopting such training methodologies. However, it is the small towns and cities that supply maximum manpower to the hubs that need help. This is where vocational training is most sought after. Here is where i360 can make a huge difference. Vocational training needs to be hands-on and relevant. This is the general target that we need to achieve at our centers across India. We need to program our courses into self help modules where the students can learn from their own mistakes. Projects, internships, simulated environments and scenario-based learning as well as game and activity based teaching can work wonders here. We have the power to turn the students who come to us into achievers - people who are sought after by the industry and feted by their peers. To achieve this, we need to walk off the beaten track and think out of the box, to spark interest, to draw the students back to us again and again. After all, someone has aptly put, “I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework” and therein lies the success mantra. Shoma Chakraborty Rethink Education…
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Considering the continuous and remarkable growth in Finance & Accounting, Retail sectors, i360 is offering different courses in Financial Accounting, Retail Management, Call Centre Training, IELTS, Career Development, Spoken English and various other courses for corporates.
"There are plenty of employment opportunities available and they are expected to grow faster than the average." Ms. Sonia Nagpal cited a study by ICRA, which states that up to 25 crore(rpt) skilled workers would be required over the next 12 years to cater to the demand in 20 high-growth sectors and the unorganized segment.
Companies want to recruit employees with proficient managerial and communication skills. Therefore, keeping these points in mind i360 is offering various courses to the students and corporates. After completion of these courses one can explore the opportunities available in the market. In the learning atmosphere of i360 student can groom their personality and learn many fruitful things under the guidance of competent and resourceful faculty.
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September ’10
Education is a unique and life changing opportunity for the teacher as well as the taught. A teacher is not just an
instructor but a role model and a mind moulder for a whole generation. Think about the madarsas across the world,
blaring out propaganda and enrolling the faithful en masse.
Over the years, teaching in India has won for itself the dubious distinction of being the most boring job and also the
least paid. Often people dismiss education in India as a legacy of the British who needed to mass produce self-
important clerks to carry out boring transactions in English in dreary government offices across small towns and
tehsils across the sub-continent. Obviously, "It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely
uneducated."
Is that what we have been inflicting upon generations of Indians? Scratch the surface and you’ll realize the scenario
is even worse. Many parents today are opting for home schooling over dragging their child through hell and high
water to get them admitted to a “good” (read socially acceptable) school or college. Many students who are learning
at home are also doing very well. The recent breakthrough by a Delhi boy, 14-year-old Sahal Kaushik who is the
youngest Indian to crack the IIT entrance exams is a tale that cannot be dismissed lightly. He was home schooled by
his mother! Cities like Bangalore and Pune have scores of kids who are learning at home, helped by their parents.
These kids are not being pushed into learning everything like in a school therefore, they are less burdened and
pursue a more fruitful education that is focused around the areas of their strength and interest - the results are not
bad at all.
Does that mean that institutionalized education is on its way out? Not really. Educational institutes are important
and a child needs to go to a school to be able to grow socially as a person. It is important to be a part of an institute to
be able to understand the competition that he/she will have to face in the future. Shutting down of institutionalized
education would leave us with the problem of dealing with the asocial and withdrawn.
However, our education system needs to change and there are no two ways about it. The one-way interaction in the
classrooms has to give way to a clear two-way transaction. As teachers and academicians, we have to understand
that the focal point of any classroom is the students. They are our customers and they need to be satisfied and
happy when they go home. We need them to be excited to come back to the classrooms everyday for roughly a
decade-and-a-half if not more.
Our approach towards teaching needs to be more investigative and project-oriented. Instead of teaching from the
books let your students try out other possibilities like experimenting, questioning, creating and research-based
outcomes. Let the education they get be useful and fruitful – something they can apply in real life years after they
have left their classrooms and moved on.
A lot of work is being done in this direction and many schools in big cities are adopting such training methodologies.
However, it is the small towns and cities that supply maximum manpower to the hubs that need help.
This is where vocational training is most sought after. Here is where i360 can make a huge difference. Vocational
training needs to be hands-on and relevant. This is the general target that we need to achieve at our centers across
India. We need to program our courses into self help modules where the students can learn from their own
mistakes. Projects, internships, simulated environments and scenario-based learning as well as game and activity
based teaching can work wonders here.
We have the power to turn the students who come to us into achievers - people who are sought after by the industry
and feted by their peers. To achieve this, we need to walk off the beaten track and think out of the box, to spark
interest, to draw the students back to us again and again. After all, someone has aptly put, “I like a teacher who gives
you something to take home to think about besides homework” and therein lies the success mantra.
Shoma Chakraborty
Rethink Education…
Ms. Avneet Kaur Dhanjal: 30th Sept.
Ms. Ujjaval Sharma: 11th Sept.
KEY HIGHLIGHTS OF THE MONTH
REASON TO CELEBRATE
Mr. Deepanshu Khurana: 1st Oct.
> Entered into a New State --- Bihar with 2 centre Sign up’s in Patna
> Expanded presence in Rajasthan by adding Udaipur to the centre list
> 3 successful centres launched at Mau, Gangtok and Jammu
> Dehradun continues to lead the collection among all the centres
> Aggressive marketing activities done to generate franchise enquiries and student enquiries
Franchise Front
> Closed Senior Level assignment in IT with a leading real estate company
> Acquired 5 new clients in the last month, highest in the current fiscal
Ozone
> Training in Delhi for CMA (first five modules)
> Training at Jammu center for English and Soft Skills,
CMA (first 5 modules) and Academic Docket
> Training at Gangtok center for English and Soft Skills and Academic Docket
> Courses made online on the Academic website: CDP
Marketing FrontRolled out Teacher’s Day activities for centers
Mr. Vineet Vaidya
Mr. Samit Dayal
Team
Dehradun
It’s a Hattrick ! Many congratulations to Team Dehradun for the wonderful performance for the third consecutive month in a row. I wish them the very best in the coming months. Gr8 Effort ! Keep the ball rolling !!
Dharmendar Sharma has been seen as a man with a magic hand.
His visualization of colors and imagination has been the core of
all colours of i360. A soft spoken and simple person, Dharam is
always very hard on the mouse of the computer through which he
generates all the colours and graphs and shapes ……name it and
he would do it! He has played a role of being the back
bone of the organization. I wish him success and expect that he
would continue adding colours to the i360 brand to make it a
vibrant RAINBOW with all colours….sharp and clear.
pioneering
Mr. DharmendarSharma
Dharam’s Magical Canvas
Canvas Paintings by Dharmendra Sharma
Mr. Abhishek SarkarTrainer-Dehradun
Ms. Shilpi Banerjee
Trainer-Laxmi Nagar
DOB
One word to describe your personality
Hobbies
List 1 thing you wish you could change
about yourself
If you could start your own restaurant, who
would be your first customer from i360?
If you could have 3 wishes granted, what
would they be?
If you HAD to change your name, what
would you change it to?
If you won $20 million in the lottery, what
would you do with the money?
If aliens landed in front of you and, in
exchange for anything you desire, offered
you any position on their planet, what would
you want?
About i360
18th February
Electrifying (Please don't get shocked!!)
Listening to hard rock, reading, watching
sci-fi movies
Anger
Ms. Shoma Chakraborty (She is always on
time with her meals...potential sign for a
loyal and regular customer ..he he he)
i360 as education pioneer (will help our
business!!), Performing in a Rock gig & the
last wish would be to what I want & when I
want
I like my name (It has Aishwarya Rai's name
attached to it...It’s known all over the world
now!!!)
Buy an Island, make it a tourist spot and
earn more money (will invite the entire i360
staff....paid of course! Gurcharan don't be
disappointed I will give you a special
discount)
I will ask them to take me to their planet &
give me the finance department (I would like
to be with green martians with green
money...I hope that's the color of their
currency)
Supernova!!! (It’s an explosion of a star in
space giving birth to new forms...just like
i360 giving birth to fulfill desires of jobless
DOB
One word to describe your personality
Hobbies
List 1 thing you wish you could change
about yourself
If you could start your own restaurant, who
would be your first customer from i360
If you could have 3 wishes granted, what
would they be?
If you HAD to change your name, what
would you change it to?
If you won $20 million in the lottery, what
would you do with the money
If aliens landed in front of you and, in
exchange for anything you desire, offered
you any position on their planet, what would
you want?
10. About i360
31st October
Jovial
Cooking and Gossiping with good friends
My Temperament
Shoma Ma’am
a) To have a Doctorate degree
b) To be a successful trainer
c) To have a playway school of my own
I love my name Shilpi so I don't want to
change it
I would like to have a grand bunglow, will go
for world tour, will posses a luxury car and
will put rest of the money in fixed deposit
Captain of Aliens
It's a full fledged corporate providing all
round development to the students
Happy Birthday
Anjali
Happy Birthday
Tanvi
Happy Birthday
Ajay
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