Skill is developed by practice.
Knowledge is gained from books.
Wisdom is acquired by experience.
Some good qualities are in-born traits.
The first and foremost level of learning is Skill. Unfortunately the present system of education does not give much weightage to the basic skill set among students whether it is soft skill set or hard skill set!! There is a serious problem among students, nowadays. They have good books, good additional reference materials, internet resources, mobile apps, efficient teachers, schools with best infrastructure, etc. However, if you approach any school student and ask some basic question in Maths or Science or Social science, or ask to quote any poem or proverb from their mother tongue, you will be surprised with their inappropriate answers! Major schools are keen on branding their images through extracurricular activities and have ignored the paracurricular skill set. Most of the students are very poor in memory retention and reproducing the learned stuff in an efficient manner in both writing and speaking, even though they are smart enough in learning anything quickly and evaporating everything at the same speed!! The reason behind this is that they have filled up their mind with so many transient, unwanted web engagements and whatsapp wastes!!
Oh, dear parents! Disengage your wards from these web and mobile activities and encage or engage them in a restricted atmosphere under the vigilence of a good mentor!
One cannot think about a technical course or job without the proficiency in certain skill sets mentioned below. Most of the parents and students plan their career wrongly without undergoing some self-assessments and dream about big jobs or joining in premier Engineering and Medical Institutes.
Highlights
Numerical Skill
There is some misunderstanding among students and parents that there is no need for Mathematics in preparing for Medical Entrance Examinations like NEET, AIIMS, JIPMER etc.
Such parents and students are in a great illusion. They should go through the contents of Physics and Chemistry in higher secondary level where they will definitely understand the need for some basic and advanced Mathematics. One may get confused whether it is Maths or Physics by looking at the CBSE Higher secondary Physics question paper.
Without knowing the basic concepts of vector algebra and calculus one cannot solve major problems in Physics. Taking a group of Maths, Physics, Chemistry, Computer Science / Biology is much recommended if you have decided to go for Engineering / Medical profession.
Like a physical fitness, the above skill set should be constantly practiced besides the regular academic stream.
Nowadays, regular schools have lot of other priorities and misuse their students to market their brands by participating in some activities. As a private mentor with more than 35 years experience in academics and research, the author has come across several students from such popular schools lagging in basic arithmetics. Some samples are displayed below without mentioning the names of the students. We cannot blame the students. It is the responsibility of every parent to monitor the academic performance on daily basis. Most of the parents open their eyes only when they are called for school open day to discuss about the performance of the ward. The concerned teachers will blame the student and parents for lack of cooperation of the candidate and neither parties will discuss on the corrective measures.
Dear parents, the entire world is a platform where your wards are going to perform in future. Everyone will look at his or her performance. Be ready to tune them now itself. We need to worry about the skill set performance rather than expecting great marks in school tests. Most of the families have single child and that is why their wards do not know how to be a team player. In those days our brothers and sisters were used to mock and scold at us when we went wrong in fundamentals in Maths or English. Being a single child and totally isolated from grand parents and sometimes parents too, such lonely guys are unable to work as a team at school or at coaching centres and cause bullying, immoral activities, restlessness, agitation etc. Such students do not accept their ignorance when their mistakes are exposed. Some lonely children come to school and study centres, only for fun and such day dreamers come and spoil everyone in the classroom.
If Wealth is lost, nothing is lost!
If Health is lost something is lost!!
If Character is lost Everything is lost!!!
Character is the crown of Education!
Today’s Education is only Agitation!
The true Education is focussed on Life and not only for Living!!
Sri Sathya Sai Baba
Early morning session is the best time to work out mathematics and physical science problems. Encourage your children to practice the brain work out in the early morning either at your home or at mentor’s home.
Drawing skill
One should understand that science drawing is not an artistic drawing. It represents a sketch or model or idear or real object. It is just a visual representation. It is useful to understand the concept and memorize the same easily. Many students are lazy and claim that they cannot draw nicely as given in the book. But, truey, an artistic work is not expeceted in a science drawing. Practice makes one perfect. Start with a rough sketch using pencil, and slowy anyone can achieve perfection. Following things can be drawn for different purposes.
- Real object drawing in Biology
- Molecular shape and structural formulae in Chemistry
- Circuits in physics
- Concept map to take down notes in any subject
- Flow chart to explain a process
- Sketch note to summarise a chapter
- Mind map for creating new ideas or during brain storming session
Use good pencils. After finalising the drawing one can redraw with black gel pen and use selective colours.
Our educational system insists on exploring knowledge through psychomotor domain, in other words, we need to learn by brain and physical excercises. Whereas our guys reads even Maths problems like daily news paper without taking an effort to solve the problems by working out on a paper. Now, comes the downloads of notes from the mobile apps and internet pdfs!
You may download tons of notes and visuals like sand load, from an app, but all of them become useless, if they are not imbibed, not retained, not reproduced and not applied !!
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NATA aspriants can practice perspective drawings.
Language Skill
One can learn any language like English, Tamil, Hindi, Sanskrit, French, etc. There are four essential steps in developing one’s language skill.
- Listening
- Reading
- Speaking
- Writing
சித்திரமும் கைப்பழக்கம் செந்தமிழும் நாப்பழக்கம்
ஓளவையார்
வைத்ததொரு கல்வி மனப்பழக்கம்-நித்தம்
நடையும் நடைப்பழக்கம் நட்பும் தயையும்
கொடையும் பிறவிக் குணம்
Friendship, compassion and generosity are not excelled with habbit; they are in born traits!!
Most of the school students study Tamil or English just for the sake of scoring good marks in examination. Parent should encourage the children to study the mother tongue for life!! They should also sit and study with them because they will agree that some great words, proverbs and poems studied in their school life can be truely realized in their real life now.
நல்லாரைக் காண்பதுவும் நன்றே நலமிக்க
ஓளவையார்
நல்லார்சொல் கேட்பதுவும் நன்றே – நல்லார்
குணங்கள் உரைப்பதுவும் நன்றே அவரோடு
இணங்கி இருப்பதுவும் நன்று
IELTS (International English Language Testing System) tests listenting, reading, speaking and writing skills of students and issue certificate. This certificate is insisted in overseas education in several western Universities.
Reasoning Skill
Logical reasoning is another skill set required for every student for taking important decisions, predictions etc. This improves in reasoning, justifying or solving logical problems.
If your answer is A, your reasoning skill is perfect!
Saitech Para-curricular Brain Workout
In order to bridge the gap between the required skill set in a regular curriculum and the current status of skill set of the student Saitech has introduced Skill Building Drills, called Saitech Paracurricular Brain Workout Sessions. Students who are struggling in basic skill set should compulsory undergo these skill building drills and obtain Saitech Skill Eligibility Certificate in the respective domains prescribed by the faculty. These skill building sessions impact great changes in the regular academic courses and improve better understanding of the concepts in any subject.
Please contact your faculty for further details to join in Saitech Para-curricular Brain Workout sessions.
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