September ’10

Education is a unique and life changing opportunity for the teacher as well as the taught. A teacher is not just an

instructor but a role model and a mind moulder for a whole generation. Think about the madarsas across the world,

blaring out propaganda and enrolling the faithful en masse.

Over the years, teaching in India has won for itself the dubious distinction of being the most boring job and also the

least paid. Often people dismiss education in India as a legacy of the British who needed to mass produce self-

important clerks to carry out boring transactions in English in dreary government offices across small towns and

tehsils across the sub-continent. Obviously, "It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely

uneducated."

Is that what we have been inflicting upon generations of Indians? Scratch the surface and you’ll realize the scenario

is even worse. Many parents today are opting for home schooling over dragging their child through hell and high

water to get them admitted to a “good” (read socially acceptable) school or college. Many students who are learning

at home are also doing very well. The recent breakthrough by a Delhi boy, 14-year-old Sahal Kaushik who is the

youngest Indian to crack the IIT entrance exams is a tale that cannot be dismissed lightly. He was home schooled by

his mother! Cities like Bangalore and Pune have scores of kids who are learning at home, helped by their parents.

These kids are not being pushed into learning everything like in a school therefore, they are less burdened and

pursue a more fruitful education that is focused around the areas of their strength and interest - the results are not

bad at all.

Does that mean that institutionalized education is on its way out? Not really. Educational institutes are important

and a child needs to go to a school to be able to grow socially as a person. It is important to be a part of an institute to

be able to understand the competition that he/she will have to face in the future. Shutting down of institutionalized

education would leave us with the problem of dealing with the asocial and withdrawn.

However, our education system needs to change and there are no two ways about it. The one-way interaction in the

classrooms has to give way to a clear two-way transaction. As teachers and academicians, we have to understand

that the focal point of any classroom is the students. They are our customers and they need to be satisfied and

happy when they go home. We need them to be excited to come back to the classrooms everyday for roughly a

decade-and-a-half if not more.

Our approach towards teaching needs to be more investigative and project-oriented. Instead of teaching from the

books let your students try out other possibilities like experimenting, questioning, creating and research-based

outcomes. Let the education they get be useful and fruitful – something they can apply in real life years after they

have left their classrooms and moved on.

A lot of work is being done in this direction and many schools in big cities are adopting such training methodologies.

However, it is the small towns and cities that supply maximum manpower to the hubs that need help.

This is where vocational training is most sought after. Here is where i360 can make a huge difference. Vocational

training needs to be hands-on and relevant. This is the general target that we need to achieve at our centers across

India. We need to program our courses into self help modules where the students can learn from their own

mistakes. Projects, internships, simulated environments and scenario-based learning as well as game and activity

based teaching can work wonders here.

We have the power to turn the students who come to us into achievers - people who are sought after by the industry

and feted by their peers. To achieve this, we need to walk off the beaten track and think out of the box, to spark

interest, to draw the students back to us again and again. After all, someone has aptly put, “I like a teacher who gives

you something to take home to think about besides homework” and therein lies the success mantra.

Shoma Chakraborty

Rethink Education…

Ms. Avneet Kaur Dhanjal: 30th Sept.

Ms. Ujjaval Sharma: 11th Sept.

KEY HIGHLIGHTS OF THE MONTH

REASON TO CELEBRATE

Mr. Deepanshu Khurana: 1st Oct.

> Entered into a New State --- Bihar with 2 centre Sign up’s in Patna

> Expanded presence in Rajasthan by adding Udaipur to the centre list

> 3 successful centres launched at Mau, Gangtok and Jammu

> Dehradun continues to lead the collection among all the centres

> Aggressive marketing activities done to generate franchise enquiries and student enquiries

Franchise Front

> Closed Senior Level assignment in IT with a leading real estate company

> Acquired 5 new clients in the last month, highest in the current fiscal

Ozone

> Training in Delhi for CMA (first five modules)

> Training at Jammu center for English and Soft Skills,

CMA (first 5 modules) and Academic Docket

> Training at Gangtok center for English and Soft Skills and Academic Docket

> Courses made online on the Academic website: CDP

Academic Front

New Joinees

Mr. Sadab Hussain Saddke: COUNSELOR, Pitampura

Ms. Ujjaval Sharma: COUNSELOR, Laxmi Nagar

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Mr. Dharmendra Sharma: 13th Sept.

Marketing FrontRolled out Teacher’s Day activities for centers

Mr. Vineet Vaidya

Mr. Samit Dayal

Team

Dehradun

It’s a Hattrick ! Many congratulations to Team Dehradun for the wonderful performance for the third consecutive month in a row. I wish them the very best in the coming months. Gr8 Effort ! Keep the ball rolling !!

Dharmendar Sharma has been seen as a man with a magic hand.

His visualization of colors and imagination has been the core of

all colours of i360. A soft spoken and simple person, Dharam is

always very hard on the mouse of the computer through which he

generates all the colours and graphs and shapes ……name it and

he would do it! He has played a role of being the back

bone of the organization. I wish him success and expect that he

would continue adding colours to the i360 brand to make it a

vibrant RAINBOW with all colours….sharp and clear.

pioneering

Mr. DharmendarSharma

Dharam’s Magical Canvas

Canvas Paintings by Dharmendra Sharma

Mr. Abhishek SarkarTrainer-Dehradun

Ms. Shilpi Banerjee

Trainer-Laxmi Nagar

DOB

One word to describe your personality

Hobbies

List 1 thing you wish you could change

about yourself

If you could start your own restaurant, who

would be your first customer from i360?

If you could have 3 wishes granted, what

would they be?

If you HAD to change your name, what

would you change it to?

If you won $20 million in the lottery, what

would you do with the money?

If aliens landed in front of you and, in

exchange for anything you desire, offered

you any position on their planet, what would

you want?

About i360

18th February

Electrifying (Please don't get shocked!!)

Listening to hard rock, reading, watching

sci-fi movies

Anger

Ms. Shoma Chakraborty (She is always on

time with her meals...potential sign for a

loyal and regular customer ..he he he)

i360 as education pioneer (will help our

business!!), Performing in a Rock gig & the

last wish would be to what I want & when I

want

I like my name (It has Aishwarya Rai's name

attached to it...It’s known all over the world

now!!!)

Buy an Island, make it a tourist spot and

earn more money (will invite the entire i360

staff....paid of course! Gurcharan don't be

disappointed I will give you a special

discount)

I will ask them to take me to their planet &

give me the finance department (I would like

to be with green martians with green

money...I hope that's the color of their

currency)

Supernova!!! (It’s an explosion of a star in

space giving birth to new forms...just like

i360 giving birth to fulfill desires of jobless

DOB

One word to describe your personality

Hobbies

List 1 thing you wish you could change

about yourself

If you could start your own restaurant, who

would be your first customer from i360

If you could have 3 wishes granted, what

would they be?

If you HAD to change your name, what

would you change it to?

If you won $20 million in the lottery, what

would you do with the money

If aliens landed in front of you and, in

exchange for anything you desire, offered

you any position on their planet, what would

you want?

10. About i360

31st October

Jovial

Cooking and Gossiping with good friends

My Temperament

Shoma Ma’am

a) To have a Doctorate degree

b) To be a successful trainer

c) To have a playway school of my own

I love my name Shilpi so I don't want to

change it

I would like to have a grand bunglow, will go

for world tour, will posses a luxury car and

will put rest of the money in fixed deposit

Captain of Aliens

It's a full fledged corporate providing all

round development to the students

Happy Birthday

Anjali

Happy Birthday

Tanvi

Happy Birthday

Ajay

Rainbow is for you therefore try to add colors of your innovation and creativity by writing

an article, poem or any experience. Your contributions will be rewarded.

Your contribution is valuable. Please write your feedback about Rainbow and mail your entries by the end of every month at pr@i360training.in

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Winners of the last Month:

Sidharth Pahwa

Ravi Kumar

Tavandeep Sahni