“Do not train students to learn by force; but direct them to it, by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.”-Pluto.
In today’s scenario, the focus isn’t on delivering education but on learning outcomes. After all, “accumulating knowledge matters a lot less.” To understand the importance of integration of cognitive and socio-emotional skills into education, a conference was organized on 15th March 2023, in the Conference Room of the school. The Resource Person was Dr. Surendra Dass from Eduvrata.
Dr. Dass is an educationist with an innovative bent of mind, an administrator with high execution quotient, a trainer with a difference, wellness advisor, and life coach, author, and poet. He has been in the field of education for more than 40 years. He has worked as a Director –Quality Assurance in Superhouse Education Foundation for 3 years. At present, Sir is looking after his Education Consultancy Firm[Eduvrata] as Director and providing consultancy to schools for 360 degree School Improvement in order to make the School Heads as the Education Leaders and trend setters in conformity with International Benchmark of Quality Education and NEP -2020.
Dr. Dass was formally welcomed by the CCA Incharge , Ms. Upma Bhargava.
Thereafter, the Resource Person started his session. He gave a detailed description of Effective School Framework. He threw light on School Culture after Infrastructure as all the schools maintain their infrastructure as per CBSE norms. He categorized different cultures of different schools into Positive, Negative and Neutral. He correlated outcomes to Positive School Culture. Negative elements were hold responsible for blocking the outcomes by him. He considered the . Neutral way – the standard procedure. Digitalization in every aspect, at school is a necessity, he added. Importance of Standard operating system was emphasized. After that , School Leadership and its types were discussed, which were Authoritarian, Democratic, Distributed and Transformational Leadership.
While talking about School Domain, the Resource Person informed that there is no change in the Framework since 2005 and a change is expected in 2023. He knew that Curriculum Mapping need different steps to be followed, In the process of Learning Objective and Learning Outcomes, a gap remains and rarely bridged at any school, he said.There after, Instructional Design , Learning Structure, Objective, Material, Activities and Assessment were discussed. Out of all , Learning Experience and Evaluation were considered most important by him.
Dr. Dass elaborated on the importance of Holistic Education as every student’s talent should be nurtured. The audience was enlightened about Individual Education Programme as it includes complete profile of the student. School’s Social Responsibility and Active participation of positive and constructive parents was considered as the need of the hour.
While talking about CSR and School, the Resource Person laid emphasis on Climate Building Committee. Satisfaction of beneficiaries to be taken care of, he added. He spotlighted 360![]()
feedback which must include parents, students, administration and even from group’D’ staff. Satisfaction of the stakeholders should be the motto, he vocalized.
After the session , the Resource Person satisfied the queries of the participants. The Vote of Thanks was given by the Vice Principal. The Chairman, Brig. PS Sidhu,VSM, DCSO, Col. Vikas Gautam, the Principal, Ms Anju Malhotra and the staff attended the session. The session ended with a note ‘Excellence is always the result of high intention, serious effort and intelligent execution. It represents wise choice of many alternatives – choice determines your destiny”.
ARMY PUBLIC SCHOOL MATHURA CANTT 