THE COURSE CONTENT ON EDUCATION
Context
- Is the school truly preparing your child for the future?
- Childhood is not child’s play
- Why children ‘fail’ *?
- Why do parents matter so much?
- Why parents today matter like never before
- How every parent matters
- What do parents gain from parenting?
- How is each parent unique?
- What transformation is needed in parent education?
- 21st century schools and the authors!
- Case studies – How unique can each parent be?
- How did our parenting journey take us to home-schooling?
EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM
- Influential education theories
- Common theoretical frameworks
- Constructivism
- Eminent educators
- Quality of education – the real form
- Quality of education – the formal form
- The current school education system
- Origin of the current school system
- Current schools are factory-like institutions
- While social context has changed, schools have not
- The design flaw in schools
- A GOOD school
- Parents can insulate their children
- Schools and student-centric education
- Established student-centric approaches
- Parents need to change the home system as well
- Extended circle of influence
- Relevance of post-school academic tuitions
- Managing and leveraging homework
- Parents with children in boarding schools
- Financing education
- What to appreciate children for?
LEARNING JOURNEY
- Stages of growth for humans
- he importance of ‘childhood’ – the stage unique to humans
- Emotional and social development in early years
- Implications of the stages of growth for parents
- Know the children
- The surprise of ‘home-schooling’ – our notes on children
- Pillars of individual learning
- Reading
- Schools’ role
- Parents’ role
- Language
- Schools’ role
- Parents’ role
- Learning
- Memory
- Schools’ role
- Parents’ role
- Teaching and learning subjects
- Math
- Science
- Biology
- Physics and Chemistry
- Math and science
- Social Sciences
- Harnessing Assessments
OVERALL DEVELOPMENT
- Life skills
- Values
- Music and dance
- Parents’ role
- Schools’ role
- Dance
- Parents’ role
- Physical education
- Art and design
- Schools’ role
- Parents' Role
INTERNET FOR CHILDREN
- Technology for children
- Technology, not just coding
- Cyberbullying
- Impact of cyberbullying
- Protection from cyberbullying at home
CAREER CHOICES
RECIPE FOR A GOOD SCHOOL
- GOOD principal
- GOOD teacher
- GOOD parent
ASSESSING SCHOOLS
- Questions for school administrators
- Questions for school principals
- Questions for teachers
- ICT in education
- The socialisation of children
- A clarion call to higher education
- The future of school education
EXAMPLES OF SUCCESFUL PARENTING
- Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
- Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)
- Helen Adams Keller (1880 - 1968)
- Steve Jobs (1955–2011)
- Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman (1888 – 1970)
BEING A LIBEREL PARENT
Note: The aforementioned topics are copy of the Index of contents of the book ‘You, The Unsung Hero’, by G S Madhav Rao, Sandeep Srivastava, Saloni Srivastava. These topics are used as anchors for extensive discussion on education.