Schools have a very important role to play in educating kids, and you are justly proud of the hard work you put in to ensure that the students who come to your school get a high-quality education. You hire the best teachers and try to use the latest technology (such as digital smart boards) to ensure that you offer a state-of-the-art learning environment. However, you know that you are fighting an uphill battle. Classroom sizes have become much larger, which means the care is often very impersonal, and even though most teachers are doing their best, they don’t even know the names of all the kids in their classroom because there are so many of them! The curriculum has remained outdated and obsolete; the textbooks are very old-fashioned and boring; and parents only seem to care about how many marks their kids score in exams rather than learning basic concepts and principles. It’s hard to maintain discipline, and teachers get burned out.
Kids end up feeling stressed because of the pressure of homework and exams. They don’t have time to enjoy themselves, and you are forced to cut down on recess and games because of the pressure to complete the curriculum.
You are worried about how well your students will cope once they go to college if their basics aren’t sound. They don’t enjoy learning or reading, and there seems to be very little you can do to break this vicious cycle because of all the pressures you have to deal with.
You can’t change the schooling system, and while you may try to enrich your educational offerings, you are constrained by finances. The epidemic of commercial coaching classes has just made a bad situation worse. In their mad quest for every last mark, parents now force their kids to go to tuition classes, with the hope that this will help them get into a good college.
However, these classes just add insult to injury. Kids refuse to pay attention in school because their tuition has already covered all this material—or they know that they will be taught this in the tuition class, so they don’t need to pay attention to their school teacher! Also, students often get confused because of the different teaching techniques, and this makes your teacher’s life even more difficult. Many just give up, and because the kids are so bored, the teachers get disengaged and lose interest in trying to teach their classes—forget about inspiring them! The best teachers get poached by these classes, which pay far more, which means you are left with mediocre, average teachers.
Here is an effective solution! Please consider the concept of flexi-schooling, which combines the best of both traditional schooling and homeschooling.
Your students continue coming to school, because this gives parents the safety element that they crave, but it also means that when he goes back home, instead of packing him off to a tuition class, he uses a PC at home to study together with his friends, so that they can learn for themselves.2-3 families could buy a PC together, especially if they live in the same neighbourhood, so they can learn from each other.
PCs are superb educational tools, and the Selligion PC is very cost-effective and affordable; it costs just Rs 10,000 for a fully-loaded PC (including a webcam, headphones, monitor, keyboard, and mouse). The PC acts like a personalised teaching coach and will supplement your school’s efforts. There are many free resources available online today, including www.magnetbrains.com, www.learnohub.com, and www.missiongyan.com, which are mapped to the curriculum so that you can tell them what resources to use. They can prepare for the class in advance (the flipped classroom model), and this will make school much more interesting. Your teachers can use the bright students as teaching assistants who can help the other kids learn!
Because the world’s best teachers all teach online, not only can your students prepare for the next day’s school lessons by using a flipped classroom model, they can also solve their doubts by watching online videos. By teaching and learning from each other, the lessons become much stickier, so they will do much better in school and in their exams, which is a huge bonus.
By encouraging your students to invest in a PC, you will be seen as a progressive school that is happy to use the latest technology (such as ChatGPT) to help students become self-directed learners. In addition to this, this will boost their ability to solve problems because they will be forced to search for new and improved solutions to the same problem, thereby increasing their IQ level. And because you run a school, you can buy a large number of PCs in bulk and pass on this discount to your students, so they appreciate the value you are adding to their lives!
Flexischooling allows for a more personalised learning experience tailored for your students, so parents can partner with teachers to ensure children can shine—both in school and in the future! Feel free to reach out to us if you think that this will benefit numerous students and make India a very productive nation. You can contact us through WhatsApp, Instagram or email at contact.teachtoearn@gmail.com