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How to prepare students for the future
Challenges for Educators
Mirza Yawar BaigOpening the world, one mind at a time©
Work Experience: International Speaker, Trainer, Author, Coach,
Leadership Consultant with 16 years in Corporate General Management, 30 years in Training & Organizational Development, specializing in Family Business Consulting & Entrepreneurship
Director / Professional Member: Center for Conflict Resolution & Human Security Indian Society for Applied Behavioural Science
Entrepreneur: 1994: Founded
Education: IIM-A , P-CMM®, MBTI©, WSA©, ISABS
Books: The Business of Family Business An Entrepreneur’s Diary Hiring Winners Leadership Lessons from the Life of Rasoolullah Leadership is a Personal Choice
Member Consultant Panel:USA GE Corporate University, Crotonville Oracle Corporate University, CA AMA International, New York Andersen Corporate University, MNIndia Osmania University, Hyderabad SVP National Police Academy, Hyderabad SSB Academy, Gwaldam, Uttar Akhand LBS Academy of Administration, Mussoorie
Clients Include:GE, Oracle, Motorola, Microsoft, IBM, Digital-Compaq, National Semiconductor, Unilever, BSNL, Tata Indicom, Colgate, Asian Paints, Siemens, Wartsila, MphasiS, CavinKare, EXL Service, World Bank, ICRISAT, World Fish, Tata Corporate, J & J, Accenture, Zeneca Seeds, Shanta Biotech, Advanta, Reuters, Air India, Yusuf Bin Ahmed Kanoo, Olam, Regal Beloit, Reliance World, NIS Sparta, AMKA, Emami Group, Suzlon, JP Morgan, SEW Infrastructure, Rahim Afroze, Expolanka, Brandix
To teach the child to succeed in a future that you know nothing about
Your challenge
Think of your role model
For how many of you is it a parent or a teacher?
What would your children / students say if I were to ask them the same question?
The challenge is to inspire those who we have the maximum facetime
with
Why do you teach?1. History?2. Geography?3. Mathematics?4. Do your exam questions
reflect this?What if you taught keeping the real purpose in mind?
A system designe
d to create
obedient slaves
Define the ProductMethod will depend on the
definition
What question do we ask?
What was your rank? (Mark percentage)
What did you learn?
Is it a surprise that 85% of engineers are unemployable?
Define your roleTeaching him about flyingTeaching him to fly
Define our product: What are we trying to create?
What you need to create a plane is not the same as what you need to create a train
Changes must be made in both ‘What’ and ‘How’
Most important need
You can’t build an aircraft in a locomotive factory
Using knowledge – What new inventions? New knowledge – What new publications? Leveraging Knowledge – What impact in
society?
Assessment Parameters
Financial benefit is a byproduct
Our successful system Rewards compliance Punishes investigation, questioning,
change Focused on stuffing the head with random
bits of information – not on opening the door to lifelong learning
Tests random recall in a specific time window - examsHow many children read text books after the exam?
The TragedyIs that our system is highly
successful
21st Century LeadershipTo help them to thrive in a
world we know nothing about
If a system is to be judged by its results,
what should we say about our education system
looking at its result – our society?
Leadership through Education
What it is and what it can do
Real education Based on two principles:
1. Responsibility for what you hold in trust
2. Desire to make a positive difference
Our global problems today are not due to lack of resources but lack of accountabilityThe cure for that is a live conscience
Responsibility 1. Accepting responsibility for others,
adds value to us. After all that is what we seek all through our careers
2. Enables us to rise above our base desires and invokes the best in us
3. Is the only way to leave a legacy of honor
It takes courage to accept responsibility
Make a positive difference1. Helping others to succeed2. See value in it for yourself3. Payback for what we received –
build the bridge after crossing the river
WiiFM is a station everyone listens to
What we need
When was the last time that you rewarded a student for disagreeing
with you?
Question
Challenge
Change
What we produce
We reward compliance and punish questioning
Accept
Comply
Continue
What we must encourage
But we demand conformity and punish diversity
Curiosit
y Imaginatio
n
Creativity
What we must do
But we dampen and punishSt
imul
ate
Provoke
Engage
Education is not the accumulation of random bits of information, no matter how complex.
Challenges for Educators
21st Century and Beyond
“A forking time in history is a time of great instability. But it is the only time when the puny effort of a single man or woman can change the path of destiny.”
Food for Thought
But to apply effort you need to know the right direction
“Perspective is the ability to hold two pictures simultaneously in your mind… where you are and where you want to be. Growth happens because where you want to be is more important to you than where you currently are.”
Perspective
Without perspective you can never know the right direction
Changes thanks to the Industrial Revolution
1760-1820/40 to 2015
1. Time of day: Sun to shift bell2. Parental role: Life coach to wage earner 3. Source of knowledge: Parent to Teacher4. Concern: Collective to individual
Industrial Revolution changed
We’re all part of this – not standing outside
Challenge To deal with rapid disruptive change
Future change will take years where past change took centuries
1.Goals: Primarily non-monetary to money
2.Success: Long term to short term3.Human value: Honor to money 4.Net worth: Learning and Character to
Bank balance5.Progress: Rapid continuous growth in
net worth
Changes – Industrial Revolution
Programmed dissatisfaction
Knowledge ‘Workers’ Huge increase in technology: Workers from developing
countries Complexity: Migration to developed countries
Formal education required Manual worker today needs technical education Higher expectations and demands Higher spending potential
Change of values, ethics, morals, culture, focus, aspirations, education
Lessons from Industrial revolution in social change
1. Do we see ourselves as Key Influencers?2. What is the evidence of that in what we
teach and how?3. What is our connection to the real world
to ensure relevance?4. What are our metrics of success?
Key Questions
What you don’t measure, you can’t know or guarantee
With respect to Change: To Survive Adapt Grow Anticipate Transform Drive / Initiate
So what do we need to change?
Global ChallengesOf the new world
The first commercial text message was sent in 1992
Today (2015) the total number of text messages exchanged is 350
billion exceeds the entire population of the planet by 5 times
(7 Billion)
Years to reach an audience of 50 million
38 years
35 days3 years
3.5 years
4 years 13 years
Number of internet devices
In 1984 1000
2016(projected) 64,000,000,000
There are 1,025,109 words in English (2015)
In 1950 it was 500,000
Researchers have developed a new fibre optic technology capable of transferring data at a rate of 255 terabits per
second (Tbps)
- more data than the total traffic flowing across the internet at peak
time.
So what does it all MEAN for
you as a teacher??
Essence of it all Faster and easier access to information Hugely enhanced computation power Huge information storages Hugely fast searches Potential to forecast scenarios, prepare
for eventualities, predict outcomes, options
Potential to control, influence, track, help, network, leverage, surveillance, security, share, empower and earn
Operative Questions What are our criteria of judgment? What values will drive our decisions? What is the cost of change? What is the price of not changing? What demands will the new
generations have? How will these be fulfilled?
Integrated TeachingA brief glimpse
Connectivity: Show links between subjects
Utility: Show how these apply in real life
Curiosity: Raise questions
Integrated Holistic Teaching
What do the majority of students do with text books once the course
is over?
Class Room Students of multiple ages Several teachers – subject wise +
class teacher Self-learning and discovery Teachers provide support only
Text books dumb down knowledge. Teach original texts
Project: Oceans Biology: Marine plants & animals Physics: Displacement floats ships Chemistry: Why is sea water salty? Geography: Navigation, Orienteering, sailing, Engineering: Ship building History: Maritime history of nations, colonial
domination Trade: Routes, goods, cultural & population
changeLiving knowledge applied in context
Project: Mountains Geology: Isostacy of mountains:
Stabilizing effect Geography: How mountains effect
climate Biology: Mountain flora & fauna History: How mountains affected history
of nationsDraw lessons to connect to
current events
How?Recognize the
problem and seek solutions
O! Teacher, stop teaching
And start learning
Daily Self-assessment Start discovering, learning, enjoying. Start appreciating that the student is
the best thing that happened to you and every single day try to become the best thing that happens to him or her.
‘If you want to know what someone values, see what they measure.’ ~ Mikel Harry (Motorola, 6 – Sigma Quality)
Ushers – not teachers Teachers must never teach. They must be like ushers in a vast
museum, walking quietly with their students tiptoeing behind them, opening one door after another – letting them take a peek – and then handing them the key to the door so that they can come back and explore in detail.Is every day exciting?
Give them the keys The teacher then takes them to
another door for another peek and another key. See??
Imagine how exciting that is for the student!
The teacher’s job is to give them the keys.Teaching is about asking
questions – and teaching them to ask questions.
Ask questions Reward the best question The teacher who gives answers has
failed. Let them find the answers and be
prepared for answers you didn’t ever think aboutThe best question is the one that
left you speechless
It’s not about today
Teaching is about keeping the
excitement of learning alive all
lifelong.
Consider Our present system of teaching discrete
subjects from text books, dictating notes, model question papers and cramming factories to pass exams from the perspective of real EDUCATION
So what are we really trying to achieve?
And we actually reward this violence
What do you call? Someone who studied something full time
for 15 years? What do you call someone who passes the
12th exam? So what was achieved in 15 years of
schooling?
And we actually get paid for it
Do you really want to change?
1.What is the cost of changing?2.What is the cost of not changing?3.What will be easy?4.What will be difficult?5.What are you willing to do to make it
happen?Results are directly proportional to effort
Success is a process of connecting aspirations
to reality
InvestmentCommitmentAdaptabilityPersistence
Ambivalence Passion
If you want to be successful you must
respect one rule: Never lie to yourself. ~ Paulo Coelho
‘SMART’ Goals1. Specific2. Measurable3. Actionable4. Realistic5. Time bound
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What is my investment?
