Teaching for tomorrow

1. Teaching for tomorrow
21st Century and Beyond

2. Think of your Role Model
For how many of you is it a teacher?
What do you think your students would say if
they were here and I asked them the same
question?
Does this matter at all?

3. What if you changed?
What would be the positive effects of this
change?
What would be the cost you would have to pay?
Do you think it will be worth it?
Why are you a teacher?

4. Something strange
Every day parents come to your door and hand
over to you their most precious assets
What do you do with them?
Do you see this as a responsibility in this way?

5. Commercialization of basic
education and health care are
the worst violence to society

6. The first casualty of schooling is
imagination.
The second is independence.
Confidence dies on its own of a broken
heart.
This is called Graduation.

7. Our schooling slaughters imagination
at the altar of practicality.
Practicality is defined by the past.
Imagination defines the future.

8. There's no demand until you show
possibilities.
So imagination is far more important than
intelligence.
IQ should mean Imagination Quotient.

9. Why else would so-called global
leaders make the same mistakes
since the Roman Empire except that
they're trained in a flawed system?

10. How's it possible to know all about the
world and that there's no other world;
yet we continue to destroy it?
That's knowledge?

11. Attitudes & Qualities of the Teacher
Remember that children listen with their eyes

12. 6 – Critical Attitudes
1. Power to envision the future
2. Courage to question & take a stand
3. Determination to set extraordinary goals
4. Tools to derive their own solutions
5. Willingness for team-work & collaboration
6. Lifelong openness to learning
Only what is in the vessel can spill out

13. And remind them that…..
Current circumstances don’t determine
whether you will succeed or fail, they only
determine where you need to start.
Only a lighted lamp can light another

14. Knowledge is not power…
Because
Data is not information
Information is not knowledge
Knowledge is not wisdom
Wisdom is not power
Value addition is the key

15. Converting wisdom to power
Organized data is information
Leveraged information is knowledge
Conceptualized knowledge is wisdom
Applied wisdom gives power
An ounce of power is worth more than a ton of wisdom

16. Remember & Remind
Education is not merely accumulation of
information no matter how complex
Knowledge that does not benefit society is
worthless and even harmful
It is ideology, values and character that herald the
rise and fall of nations
Our character defines us and is what people see first

17. Why Values?
Values
 Inspire and motivate
 Sustain through hardship
 Provide a sense of purpose
 Create resilience
 Anchor self esteem and identity
“Values drive behavior; Behavior drives results.”
GE

18. Integrity
Integrity is one of several paths -
But it’s the only one on which you will never be lost

19. Qualities of the teacher
1. Inspire respect & confidence
2. Demonstrate high moral standards
3. Communicate with understanding & respect
4. Motivate & create excitement in learning
5. Demand commitment & rigor
6. Never compromise on quality & principles
Remember: Children listen with their eyes

20. So where do we go from here?
Stances of Success
“Master” or ‘Victim’

21. Window of Opportunity
 In the life of every man and woman comes a time when
they have a unique opportunity to make an impact and
influence others.
 To succeed we need to anticipate, prepare and act with
courage when it opens
The window remains open only for a time

22. “Master” or “Victim”?
Choose Your Stance in Life

23. The Essential Truth
 Living life is about making choices:
 Choosing to be a “Victim”
 Or choosing to be a “Master”
 Both stances are subject to the same givens of society,
environment, organization etc.
 But have very different implications in terms of development
and happiness

24. Distinguishing features
Victims
 Complain about what
happened
 Think of excuses
 Blame others
 Lose hope & give up
Masters
 Say, “What can I do about it?”
 Think of solutions
 Own responsibility
 Have courage to try new ways
 Win, even if they fail
Possible only when we can transcend our fear

25. Time to make a choice
Master? Or Victim?

26. The single, most powerful change to
transform the world is to move from
the world is responsible for me to,
I'm responsible for the world.

27. 3, Learning disabilities
And their solutions

28. 1. Complacency
“Good enough, never is.”
The only use of history is to learn from it. Gloating
or lamenting about past glory is the surest way of
ensuring that it remains in the past.
People who don’t learn from history are condemned to repeat it

29. Usually when you feel the need to
change it is already too late. To be
competitive is to anticipate change
and execute before it becomes
necessary.

30. 2. Not aiming high enough
“It is in the nature of extraordinary goals to
inspire extraordinary effort.”
“Satisfaction is directly proportional to the
degree of difficulty in reaching the goal.”
Among the blind, the one-eyed man is king

31. Self-congratulation
Is like self-strangulation and as lethal
But unlike it – you feel nice while you die
Ask tough questions
Face harsh reality
Take steps to change
If it happened in the past you had nothing to do with it

32. 3. Excuses and blaming
 Stop blaming others for your situation
 Analyze what went wrong and create a plan to avoid it in
the future.
 Being objective, even hard, on yourself is the best way to
avoid repeating mistakes.
An excuse is merely saying that you still
haven’t learnt your lesson

33. Loss doesn’t change to gain
because you have an excuse

34. The Price of Our Success
Success, has a price.
This depends on its definition.
Most people don’t define their ‘success’ so they
don’t know its price.
What is the price of your success?

35. Questions
What are the benchmarks for the best teacher and
the best student?
What are the metrics for measurement?
What is the best method for training people on
these skills?
Concept + Method + Tools = Success

36. “A successful teacher is one who enables
students to leverage their strengths and sets
their feet on a path of self discovery where they
constantly strive to make the world a better
place.”
The student is the only true measure of the teacher

37. Metrics –
Students & Teachers
 Overall level of improvement in student performance
 Top 10 graduated students produced per year?
 Top winners in inter school contests
 No. of students with a vision, goals, strategies & action plans
 % age of students who are accepted at top universities
 Long term tracking of the success of graduates of the school:
 High government officials, Business leaders, Scholars
 360 degree ‘Customer Feedback Appraisal’ by students
 Bonus linked to above measures

38. Metrics – Schools
 Outstanding Strategic Plan (vision, objectives,
strategies and action plans for the school)
 Outstanding input (Students & teachers to select)
 Outstanding process (what is taught & how)
 Performance management system of the students,
teachers and the school as a whole

39. Conclusion
 Teaching will continue to be the most exciting and
rewarding of professions
 It’s ability to impact the future of the world will
amazingly increase
 Provided teachers can extend themselves to prepare for
the future
Because the best inspiration is by example

40. For questions & comments
Website: www.yawarbaig.com