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Meditation in classroom is like icing on the cake

Meditation is an ancient practice of discourse for improving physical, mental and emotional state by acting as awareness energiser which brings peace, tolerance and solidarity. This ancient practice is now well accepted in society and education world where concentration, focus and performance are the main yardsticks of student development. The job of the teaching profession is really exhausting and requires lots of patience as a teacher has to face unending queries from his or her students and at the same time manage them with the appropriate solution. The student who seeks for solution of the problem is always faced with focus and concentration issues, especially during the boring or non-interactive classroom session. Such a scenario is not new to the school and every second school is trying to overcome this kind of problem which may directly affect the overall performance of students and school as a whole. The solution to such issues is the inclusion of a meditation session in regul...

Child psychology and changing school environment

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  Every parent has an aspiration to get his or her child admitted to the best school in the city so that the sake of the child's overall personality development. And such aspirations are quite normal in the present socio-economic scene in urban and semi-urban India. In search of good education, parents are trying hard to seek admission for their wards in their chosen schools, if not this year, then next year or so on. In the race of chasing good schools, over present school child happens to see more than one school within his 10 years of age. Under the changing environment of the new school and ever-rising aspirations of parents happiness and joy of the child get lost as he gets himself mentally ready to face the new school environment every 2 or 3 years and in between he loses all his connections and bonding he has created during his previous schooling such connections are with the place, nature out there or people around that school. Most of the time such a child faces four major...

Happy School is vehicle of creative thinking without fear of mistakes

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  The Concept of a Happy School Although new to the world, India as its tradition embraced the idea of happy and well-engaged schooling through its Gurukulam seva. In 2014 UNESCO propounded the basic framework of Happy School. In this article, we discuss about happy school model. Basic emphasis on this concept is given to the well-being of young learners. From this point, we start the story. For identifying a happy school scenario UNESCO has divided the framework into three broad categories. The first one is People, the second is process and the third is place. Under the First category of people Interpersonal happy and relaxing relation within the educational community has been given paramount importance for a happy school. In this area, they break down into several sub-points. Friendships and relationships in the school community are considered important practices of a happy school. Another important criterion for happy schools in this area is positive teacher attitudes and attrib...