Soft skill & Value education at Asha Mumbai

[suchita sawant]

Dear Asha Volunteers,

 I Miss Suchita S Sawant. I have graduated with accountancy and currently I am working with account profile. I have joined with the Asha Mumbai as a volunteer to share my knowledge with children.

 Concept in Brief

We all know- Values & soft skills are more important than technical skills for success in life. Unfortunately, our education system concentrates on development of technical skills.

Children from age group 4-10 (1^st to 5^th std) are best to teach soft skills and value education. They are very enthusiastic to learn new things and they follow the new habits very fast.

Honesty, self confidence, positive attitude and time management are few examples of important values and soft skills required in life.

We (I & my friend- Mr. Nikhil Jadhav) have developed basic concept to teach these values and soft skills. India has huge literature on beautiful stories like panchatantra, tenaliraman, chanakya, birbal and many more.. to teach these skills. We will use these stories, some good sayings like Manache shlok by ramdas, sant Kabir, Swami Vivekanand; and games & activities!

We will cover soft skills & Values: Time management, sincerity, honesty, sensibility, discipline, hard work , patriotism, positive attitude, affectation with animal and nature, reading, writing, speech.

 Report of Lecture at Asha (29^th June, 6^th July)

We have started our course from 29 th June 2013. We will teach 2hr (4:30- 6:30pm) on every Saturday for two months (9-10 weeks).

First lecture was just to break the ice. I introduced myself and requested students to introduce themselves. Children replied me very well. They also shared their hobbies & activities with me. Some of them were naughty. Some of them were little shy. I knew- we can make them comfortable and they will also share their ideas with us.

After1/2-1hr, many children were comfortable with environment and started interacting freely with me.  I then started my session and told story about:

1.    Hard work (Shrampratishtha): No work is great or small, so we shouldn’t  feel shy or embarrasses when we do small work or we shouldn’t  feel arrogant when you do great work, another is nothing option for hard work when you give 100% you will get 100%, wok is worship.

I asked them to tell one story in next lecture.

 On 6^th July, I requested shy students to introduce themselves. I showed them how to introduce, we all inspired them and assure that we all are friend and no one will laugh.  This formula really worked well.  They introduced them very nicely. I think, they will feel comfortable now in class.

I feel, prayer is must for any school. It helps us to concentrate on study/work.  I taught them saraswati mantra.

Saraswati is godess of Education/ knowledge. Saraswati mantra tell us how clean every knowledge is. It tells us how all respects to knowledge, thus importance of education. We get power and inspiration from it. Studnets will know the richness of our Indian culture. It’s a Sanskrit and children took little time to pronounce. Sanskrit shlokas are also good exercise for pronunciation. I asked them to write it and chant every day. Many children wrote very well. Only 1-2 children has problem with writing. We will report about it asha Mumbai teachers.

I told them some stories about:

 2) Braveness (Sahasivruti): Do not afraid in difficult situation. Always behave like brave so you can overcome the situation; also you can easily give hand to those who need help.

 I have got good and inspirable experience from children’s response and will like to teach with enthusiasm and earnestness.

 This course is just a small idea. Please share your opinion and ideas so we can improve the course.

 Thank You

 Ms. Suchita Sawant

[Lata Ramesh]

my personal advice would be to narrate general stories or animal stories like elephant and blind men where in we can teach concepts like perception. religion based stories for higher class wud do good. jataka tales, panchatantra stories, akbar birbal etc.. birbal stories teach them out of the box thinking.

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Hi lata mam,

Thanks a lot. if u have any story books in eng or hindi languages, plz give us. We will read n include the stories. Course is just started and now we r working to make students confident, free and ready to listen. we will include all good stories and include both value education & soft skills as nothing can be excluded.

Regards
Nikhil
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[Lata Ramesh]

i have already bought such books . they are in the cupboard. ring up sangeetha madam and get the details.
On Fri, 12 Jul 2013 21:22:00 +0530 wrote

>Hi lata mam,



Thanks a lot. if u have any story books in eng or hindi languages, plz give us. We will read n include the stories. Course is just started and now we r working to make students confident, free and ready to listen. we will include all good stories and include both value education & soft skills as nothing can be excluded.



Regards

Nikhil

Sent from my Nokia phone

-----Original Message-----

From: Lata Ramesh

Sent: 12/07/2013 9:07:50 pm

Subject: Re: Soft skill & Value education at Asha Mumbai

my personal advice would be to narrate general stories or animal stories like elephant and blind men where in we can teach concepts like perception. religion based stories for higher class wud do good. jataka tales, panchatantra stories, akbar birbal etc.. birbal stories teach them out of the box thinking.



On Fri, 12 Jul 2013 20:47:58 +0530 wrote

>Dear Asha Volunteers,

I Miss Suchita S Sawant. I have graduated with accountancy and currently I am working with account profile. I have joined with the Asha Mumbai as a volunteer to share my knowledge with children.

Concept in Brief

We all know- Values & soft skills are more important than technical skills for success in life. Unfortunately, our education system concentrates on development of technical skills.

Children from age group 4-10 (1st to 5th std) are best to teach soft skills and value education. They are very enthusiastic to learn new things and they follow the new habits very fast.

Honesty, self confidence, positive attitude and time management are few examples of important values and soft skills required in life.

We (I & my friend- Mr. Nikhil Jadhav) have developed basic concept to teach these values and soft skills. India has huge literature on beautiful stories like panchatantra, tenaliraman, chanakya, birbal and many more.. to teach these skills. We will use these stories, some good sayings like Manache shlok by ramdas, sant Kabir, Swami Vivekanand; and games & activities!

We will cover soft skills & Values: Time management, sincerity, honesty, sensibility, discipline, hard work ,patriotism, positive attitude, affectation with animal and nature, reading, writing, speech.

[ruk v]

As a part of value education , creating a general awareness about  clenliness, civic sense, responsibilities and rights of citizens etc along with a sense of unity pan India,introducing different cultures in India will be appreciable.

Rgds,

manasi

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From: Lata Ramesh <lat...@rediffmail.com>
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Sent: Friday, 12 July 2013 9:07 PM

Subject: Re: Soft skill & Value education at Asha Mumbai

[suchita sawant]

To 

Smita Mam,

Its my pleasure mam & I will try to best my level.

To

Mansi Mam,

Sure Mam, We will cover value of education as per your suggestions. If you have any books related to these concepts and any suggestions please share with us.

Regards

Sawant Suchita