Educators face the challenge of preparing students for an unknown future. Teachers must inspire students and be role models who students admire. To succeed, education must focus on developing critical thinking, questioning and problem solving over memorization. Teachers should integrate subjects and relate lessons to the real world to spark curiosity and make learning meaningful.

1. How to prepare students for the future
Challenges for Educators

2. Mirza Yawar Baig
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4. To teach the child to succeed in a future that you
know nothing about
Your challenge
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5. Think of your role model
 For howmany of you is it a parent or a teacher?
 What wouldyour children / students say if I were to ask themthe same
question?
The challenge is to inspire those who we have the maximum facetime
with

6. What about you, inspires
your child?
How do you know?

7. If you want to be successful you must respect
one rule:
Never lie to yourself.
~ Paulo Coelho
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8. K. Kuruvilla Jacob
BornAugust,3, 1904
Fromthe Kunnenkerilfamilyin Kottayam.
He waseducated at Kottayam, Trivandrum,
Nagercoil, and Parur.
Graduatedfrom Leeds University.
Principal of Hyderabad Public School from1962-69
Died: August 25, 1991

9. What do you remember?
 Thinking about your role model, what is it about him or her that you recall
immediately?
 Please list qualities of a good role model and ask how many of them are in
you?
 What would you need to change in your own approach, attitude, behavior
to become your ideal role model?

10. Process is more important than
content
Content must enable process

11. Why do you teach?
1. History?
2. Geography?
3. Mathematics?
4. Do your exam questions reflect this?
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What if you taught keeping the real purpose in mind?

12. Education is not the accumulation of random
bits of information, no matter how complex.
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13. Global Challenges
Of the new world
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14. 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)

15. 15
Years to reach an audience of 50 million
38 years
35 days3 years
3.5 years
4 years 13 years

16. Number of internet devices
In 1984 1000
2016(projected) 64,000,000,000

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18. Largest
Indian
bank -
SBI
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19. There are 1,025,109 words in
English (2015)
In 1950 it was 500,000

20. 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.

21. If you want a film distribution business,
what do you need?
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22. If you want to start a global retail chain,
what do you need?
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23. If you want to start a road transportation
business, what do you need?
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24. Do you think anyone wants to know what
you ate for lunch?
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25. So what does it all MEAN for
you as a teacher??

26. 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

27. And of course the opposites of all of these things
Because ultimately technology is an obedient slave of its master

28. Operative Questions
 What are our criteriaof 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?

29. What will not
help
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30. Integrated Teaching
A brief glimpse

31. ِ‫ق‬ َ‫ه‬‫اّلل‬ َ‫ن‬‫و‬ُ‫ر‬ُ‫ك‬ْ‫ذ‬َ‫ي‬ َ‫ين‬ِ‫ذ‬َّ‫ل‬‫ا‬َ‫ل‬َ‫ع‬َ‫و‬ ‫ا‬ً‫ود‬ُ‫ع‬ُ‫ق‬َ‫و‬ ‫ا‬ً‫ام‬َ‫ي‬َ‫ى‬
َ‫ن‬‫و‬ُ‫ر‬َّ‫ك‬َ‫ف‬َ‫ت‬َ‫ي‬َ‫و‬ ْ‫م‬ِِ‫وِب‬ُ‫ن‬ُ‫ج‬ِ‫ات‬َ‫او‬َ‫م‬َّ‫الس‬ ِ‫ق‬ْ‫ل‬َ‫خ‬ ِ‫ِف‬
َ‫ت‬ْ‫ق‬َ‫ل‬َ‫خ‬ ‫ا‬َ‫م‬ ‫ا‬َ‫ن‬َّ‫ب‬َ‫ر‬ ِ‫ض‬ْ‫ر‬َ‫أل‬‫ا‬َ‫و‬ً‫ال‬ِ‫اط‬َ‫ب‬ ‫ذا‬َ‫ه‬
‫ال‬ َ‫اب‬َ‫ذ‬َ‫ع‬ ‫ا‬َ‫ن‬ِ‫ق‬َ‫ف‬ َ‫ك‬َ‫ن‬‫ا‬َ‫ح‬ْ‫ب‬ُ‫س‬ِ‫ر‬‫َّا‬‫ن‬
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32. Qur’anic Method of learning
 A’al Imraan 3: 191. Those who remember Allah (always, and in prayers)
standing, sitting, and lying down on their sides, and think deeply about
the creation of the heavens and the earth, (saying): "Our Rabb! You have
not created (all) this without purpose, glory to You! (Exalted be You above
all that they associate with You as partners). Give us salvation from the
torment of the Fire.
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33. Walter Lewin – For the Love of Physics

34.  Connectivity: Show links between subjects
 Utility: Show howthese 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?

35. Class Room
 Students of multiple ages
 Several teachers – subject wise + class teacher
 Self-learning anddiscovery
 Teachers provide support only
Text books dumb down knowledge. Teachoriginal texts

36. 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 change
Living knowledge applied in context

37. Project: Mountains
 Geology: Isostacy of mountains: Stabilizing effect
 Geography: How mountains effect climate
 Biology: Mountain flora & fauna
 History: How mountains affectedhistory of nations
Draw lessons to connect to current events

38. 21st Century Leadership
To help themto thrive in a world we know nothing
about

39. If a system is to be judged by its results, what
should we say about our education system
looking at its result – our society?

41. Leadership through Education
What it is and what it can do

42. Real education
 Basedon two principles:
1. Responsibility for what you holdin trust
2. Desire to make a positive difference
 Our global problems today are not due to lack of resources but lack of
accountability
The cure for that is a live conscience

43. 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

44. Make a positive difference
1. Helping others to succeed
2. See value in it for yourself
3. Payback for what we received – build the bridge after crossing the
river
WiiFM is a station everyone listens to

45. What we need
When was the last time that you rewarded a student for disagreeing
with you?
Question Challenge Change

46. What we produce
We rewardcompliance andpunish questioning
Accept
ComplyContinue

47. What we must encourage
But we demand conformity and punish diversity
Imagination

48. What we must do
But we dampen and punish
Provoke

49. How?
Recognize the problem and seek
solutions

50. O! Teacher, stop teaching
And start learning

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52. Monitor yourself daily
 Start discovering, learning, enjoying.
 Start appreciating that the student is the best thing that happenedto
you andevery single day try to become the best thing that happens to
himor her.
‘If youwant to know what someone values, see what they measure.’~ MikelHarry(Motorola,6 – Sigma
Quality)

53. You’re ushers – not teachers
 Teachers must neverteach.
 They must be like ushers in a vast museum, walking quietly withtheir students
tiptoeing behind them, opening one door after another – letting themtake a
peek – and then handing themthe key to the door so that they can come back
and explore in detail.
Is every day exciting?

54. Give them the keys
 The teacher then takes themto another door for another peek and
another key. See??
 Imagine how exciting that is for thestudent!
 The teacher’s job is to give themthe keys.
Teaching is about asking questions – and teaching them
to ask questions.

55. Ask questions
 Rewardthe best question
 The teacher who gives answers has failed. So never do that.
 Let themfindthe answers and be prepared for answers you didn’t ever
think about
The best question is the one that left you speechless

56. It’s not about today
Teaching is about keeping the
excitement of learning alive all lifelong.

57. ‘Miss a beat and you lose a generation.’
Headline in the children’s products marketing section of a
newspaper in South Africa

58. Success is a process of
connecting aspirations to reality
Performance
Investment
Commitment
Adaptability
Ambivalence
Passion

59. ‘SMART’ Goals
1. Specific
2. Measurable
3. Actionable
4. Realistic
5. Time bound
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