Beyond Abacus

The results mindset  It is a fact that across the globe, teachers are respected for their contribution in building nations, societies and individuals. I came to know that in some countries the teaching profession is so respected that anyone who has Teacher mentioned on the Passport is not even checked like others. However, today we will discuss my idea of what we can do as teachers to get the respect which has tangible benefits too in terms of enhanced income, more privileges and followers too. And all happening professionally, as a part of working, in an organic way, without having to please anyone. Today we will how to improve our results. The first term out of the acronym of Respect we discussed yesterday. We can ourselves do it as well as train students to develop some processes to be more productive and get better results The touch and finish rule. Take a task and work on it to completion. Leaving it undone and reapproaching it later, requires more efforts again. I finish writ...

  Core concepts to be a Rich Teacher 1 The right mindset Introduction In this series of articles, I am going to discuss my perception of being a Rich Teacher. Individual  The first and foremost thing is that in this series as well as the upcoming WhatsApp workshop 8th to 12th March and its sequel of longer workshops, I am going to discuss how you, in personal capacity, can be rich. Technology, social media, has made it possible that you develop your, even 10 or 100 times your current business, sitting in one room using just a cell phone, laptop, few other simple equipments you already use. Surely, you cannot be a Bill Gates or even closer to rich education ventures like Vedantu, Byju’s, Abacus franchise, IIT / NEET / UPSC/ CA / CAT coaching and other big names without significant team, spending. But surely, you can earn much more than your current income. Earn it regularly, repeatedly and scale up as well at least 10 times and even 100 times in a visible timeline. You first ea...

  Understanding the Indian Education Market 2 Informal education sector Informal education means the education obtained in not a formal set up like school, college, University etc. All the exposure, experience, learning we do through videos, reading, thought exchange, short skill training courses etc can be broadly classified as informal education. Let us see the scope or potential market for informal education. A young country  Over 50% of the Indian population, that is, a whopping 600 million or 600,000,000 or 60 Crore people are well under 35 years of age. Each is going to study, learn skills, needs training on core subject knowledge, professional skills, time management skills, presentation skills, communication skills, IT skills and other countless skills. As such, unfortunately, our formal education also is not skill based, so everyone needs training, handholding, guidance, help of different types and levels. Others as well  The remaining population also needs skill...

  Understanding the Indian Education market Formal education A reality From my vast and repeated experiences I can say that until you do not understand and work on what market scope is there for your existing knowledge and skills, you will continue to work for others, on others' mercy, at peanuts trading time for money - that too dirt cheap post COVID 19 scenario which will remain for a good long time still. And it is not difficult. When I, at 61 years can do it and am ready to guide, handhold you, why you too cannot do it ? Let's understand various major sectors of the formal education, its key data and see scope of work  School Education  Recognised schools 10,30,996 250 million or 25 Cr school going kids Implications You have this much scope as all subjects are compulsory till standard 10th. It is a matter of reaching out with a unique offer.  Higher education   9.5 million or 95 lac College / University students Implications Employability is a major concern ...

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  Becoming better teacher 2 Goal setting  While the Vision statement decides where you have to go and the Mission statement helps you to know how to go, Goal setting helps us in measuring how we are actually going ? If we see a parallel in daily life  Vision - Where the journey ends. Say going Indore to Mumbai Mission - How would we travel ? By bike, car, train, flight Goals - Milestones you read on the way. Mumbai 342 Km etc Let's get going, the video link will inspire you to work towards setting and achieving goals  https://youtu.be/Cm0CWN55GiI Some of the goals I made as a maths teacher were - Create new, unique worksheets - I have designed 350+ unique worksheets which I will be sharing from time to time and will also share the thought behind creating them.  Entertain my students through games and quizzes.  Talk to the not so good doing student and study her notebooks, go deeper on some learning issues. I was running remedial classes in Progressive Educ...

Becoming better teacher 1 Setting Vision and Mission In the article series, we will  see my own transformation journey of becoming a thought leader from being a primary school maths teacher. I will also be introducing other professional friends or internationally known works to inspire us all. I will strive to keep entire discussion practical working based and I invite the readers to try these ideas for their professional growth and development. The first and foremost thing is to know where you want to reach ? Vision and Mission statements help you a lot in that. Remember that if you do not stand for something, you fall for anything and everything. For example, if you are known to be available to all, at their will, you will never become anything significant. On the other hand, if all know you are busy, they talk accordingly.  Setting Vision and Mission will do the magic Vision statement this statement shows where you want to reach ? Mission statement this statement tells yo...

How to attract children towards maths ? 3 From Teacher’s  point of view 2 A standing clarification For all my writing I would like to clarify that it is gender neutral. That is, she includes he and vice versa. As such, the field of teaching has been and is further becoming female dominated,so I would often write she, but it is as much applicable for a he as well and it will never aim to belittle or insult the innate intelligence girls, ladies have.  The To Do checklist for teachers to attract children towards maths The teacher needs to love her work, subject and the kids she is teaching. When we love what we do, we tend to accommodate lot of errors, We dedicate time to learn more, we do not pass frustration on to others The teacher needs to be aware of digital and other tools available to her to organise, minimise, effort for doing what can be done much easily using technology. It will create time to do quality work. The teacher needs to think how the topic under discussion re...

  How to attract children towards maths ? 2 From Teacher’s  point of view 1 In my 37 year long journey as a classroom mathematics teacher, which still continues, I have taught, influenced, met, got influenced by countless students, their parents, colleagues, my seniors, my Ph. D. Supervisor Prof. B. K. Passi Sir. Having worked in Perth Australia, Mumbai, Bhopal, Jalgaon and Indore, if I have to single out one trait which is most visible and which separates the class from the also ran, it is the class people’s unconditionally loving what they do. More than that, they do what they love.  When I was a school maths teacher and my contemporaries made good fortune as tutors, owners of coaching classes, some became and are still Principals, Academic Directors, made big name, fame, money. Some honest friends even jokingly teased me that I can do financially much better and why am I not doing it ? I had to face the music of working on my inner call even at the family front where ...