Choose The Right Board Of Education

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    • Publish Date: May 21 2019 3:26PM
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    • Updated Date: May 21 2019 3:26PM
Choose The Right Board Of Education

 How do we make a choice? Educators draw on the work of Jean Piaget (1936) who was the first psychologist to explain how a child constructs a mental model of the world. He enlightened us that cognitive development is a process, which occurs due to biological maturation and interaction with the environment.

 

Keeping that understanding in view, parents should consider the below factors for selecting an educational board that would work best for their child:  

 

1.       Geography: While it may sound as an obvious factor, one must understand that not all educational boards are as easily available and affiliated across the country. Institutes affiliated to State Board and CBSE have better presence across the country in comparison to international boards like IGCSE and IB, which are mostly available in metros. In such a case, whether the family is willing to consider a relocation, matters

 

2.       Assessment methods: Assessing a student’s skill and capability only is not a holistic approach. Students should be assessed for their critical thinking, soft skills, participation in extracurricular activities and overall growth that they display in an academic year. Hence, selecting a board that gives equal weightage to academics and extracurricular activities while assessing students  makes a better choice

 

3.       Preparing for the future: An extremely important factor to consider is the education boards’ ability to prepare your child for future education choices. Providing students with tools and techniques that help them compete on a global platform is a necessity today to ensure students are future ready.    

 

4.      Recommendation by a pre-school – Your child has already spent a year or more in a pre-school and teachers are already aware of your child’s learning style. Additionally, they also have a fair feedback from previous students; hence it could be of advantage to know what the preschool has to recommend 

 

5.       Focus on the process of learning, rather than the end product of it – The pace at which the world is changing, it is difficult to predict what the world will look like when our children graduate. Hence, just preparing them with content is not enough and we must prepare them to ‘understand’ and learn problem solving skills. Parents should actively seek a board that focuses on holistic development of a child by using innovative teaching methodologies such as enquiry-based learning rather than traditional methods of just rote memorisation.    

 

Ultimately, one must appreciate that there are no black and white conclusive answers as each child is a unique individual, and as parents and educators, our aim must be to help the child realise their potential.

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The board of education does not matter much but the education system of a country does.

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