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Can you be a better parent? Yes... You can be a better parent if you know or derive answers to the following questions.  You can have your parents for assistance because they knew how hard was it to bring you up you as a teeneger.  It must be hard for them because there is not much technology, awareness, treatment, education.....available on those days for them to help you or watch you. If your parents were blessed with such a Parenting as you got it from them, your parents would have been something above you. True or not? They are not educated much as you got education, but by educating you in such a way that you have grown now, they proved that they are the most educated. Now the questions for you are: • How to make them handle ‘peer pressure’?  • How to develop ‘empathy’ in them?  • How to help them handle ‘distractions’? • How to have a great conversation with them? • How to make them ‘believe’ in themselves?  • How to make them ready to ‘adapt’?  • How...

From learned helplessness to hope 🍁 Outside the home, schools are the primary vehicles for educating, socializing, and providing services to young people in our country. Smoking school children at their very tender age, taking dopants such as whitner used for erasing on paper writing, consuming - alcohol, chemical sprits, cough syrabs and smoking, pre marriage pergnancy at school level, abortion, immature sex, lesbian, gay, homosexual partners and transgender.......all kinds of unwelcomed changes are taking place in our society specially in schools. Schools are paving a new way for this kind of activities because of getting immense opportunities from various cultural backgrounds. Students of this kind may face bullying, exclusion, and discrimination in school, putting them at physical and psychological risk and limiting their education. This is true. At the same time we cannot support their practices  and protect them from risks. In order to save them, can we support their habits ...

Perhaps we all know what life skills are. But the basic question is: • How they can be taught in schools? • Has the present set of pedagogues ever been taught life skill ? {If yes, in what way ? If not, how can they impart something they themselves haven’t learnt systematically?} ➖ Conversation Initiator: Mr. S. C. Vohra Participants: Dr. Sekar srinivasan, Dr. Anita Andrews, Dr. Parvathi, Mrs. Phani Kumari, Mrs. Pooja Hanji, Mrs. Sweta Srivastava, and Azeez ➖ Dr Parvathi: Life skills are as important as wheels in a vehicle student's life। As vehicle is useless  and can't move without wheels the same way without lifeskills children won't be able to learn the ups and downs in life and wnt be able to fight or face confidently The difficult, challenging situations in life boldly,strongly and effectively and participate in the society actively Mrs. Sweta Srivastava: Of course  Life skills are for every age group. Children learn it naturally by sharing caring and working together...

Discussion topic: Characteristics of Good Learning Outcomes [LO] Key points: ( Please cover the following areas) 1. What are Learning Outcomes? 2. Examples of Learning Outcomes 3. Why Develop Learning Outcomes? 4. Tools for Developing Learning Outcomes. 🍁 What are learning outcomes? Learning  outcomes {LOC} are statements that describe the knowledgeொ or skills students should acquire by the end of a particular assignment, class, course, or program. LOC help students: • Understand why that knowledge and those skills will be useful to them. • Focus on the context and potential applications of knowledge and skills. • Connect learning in various contexts • Help guide assessment and evaluation. Good learning outcomes emphasize the application and integration of knowledge. Instead of focusing on coverage of material, learning outcomes articulate how students will be able to employ the material, both in the context of the class and more broadly. Consider usi...