Navodayas, IIM team up to go beyond mere education

New Delhi: "The aim is to make our students grow as complete and successful individuals," A.N. Ramachandra, deputy commissioner of the Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti (NVS), told.

 

Navodaya Vidyalayas, affiliated to the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), have been doing tremendously well in board examinations and in some cases even better than private schools. There are 565 schools under the NVS umbrella.

 

Twenty-three assistant and deputy commissioners of the NVS from across the country trained at the Lucknow campus for five days last month.

 

Sushil Kumar, an IIM Lucknow professor, told IANS on phone: "These senior administrators need to learn new things so that they can teach the school principals and reap the benefits at school levels.

 

"We told them how to use audio, video and digital material to broaden students' perspective about a subject. We also told them to use various mediums of communication to handle classroom theories."

 

"From career counselling to stress management, from student teacher relation to use of new technologies in classrooms, it was part of our capsule management course," Kumar said.

 

"If a student is good in art, music or athletics, teachers must take avid interest in that and help hone his or her skills. Unless we do this, students will develop stress and a syndrome called stick personality. Students, teachers and parents need to work as a team and build the career of the students," said Kumar.