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Gurukul’s “Unschooling”

Admissions open even on Monthly basis

Unschooling is a program for children where the learning takes place beyond the 6” inch screen . Children are taught life skills through role plays that includes concepts such as banking (handling money), gardening, conversational skills, managing emotions, art and craft etc. Children can enjoy physical classes along with academic fun. (Of course with Social distancing, masks and sanitizers!)

Gurukul - A unit of Banjara Academy for Children

An academy for young people whose parents are concerned and committed towards their better and holistic growth, not just academics.

Our main aim is working with children who either do not wish to, or are unable to cope with rigid curriculum and pure academics. After understanding the child holistically, a personalized plan is made to enhance each child’s abilities and support him/her to grow and learn individually in the best way possible. This being a very sensitive way of building up the child’s potential, we need equal participation from parents to work as a team with our highly committed faculty, to ensure that the student not only learns, but also grows up to become an asset to the family, society and country.

We at Gurukul offer

1-PSE – Pyscho-Socio-Educational assessment, which helps in understanding the child’s style of understanding things around him, his social skills and how he manages them and his educational level and understanding of the same.

2-CDA-Child Development Assessment which helps to understand the developmental issues of a child.

3-Admission to NIOS-OBE- Level A, B and C under

 (BANJARA FOUNDATION) AAO08047

(National Institute of Open Schooling- Open Basic Education)

We even teach children for NIOS class 10 and 12 for certain subjects

Admission opens for children of any age, any background and any academic level, throughout the year.

Very reasonable fee, based on the needs of the child and affordability of parents.

Days: Monday to Friday

Timings: 10:00 am to 2:30 pm

Tel:  8867192260, 8861421666, 9035679801

Each child will be educated and trained individually depending on the capabilities, intelligence, interest and inclination, leading up to 10th standard certification if interested, otherwise providing life skills and improve emotional intelligence.

No uniform, time-table, no deposits or long term fees. Active involvement of the parent is our only requirement. Together we can achieve wonders, and ensure that the child gets an opportunity to bring out his/her best potential in any field.

Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE)-Online

Admissions Open! Contact Banjara Office for more details…..

Certificate in Early Childhood Care and Education is a distance learning program offered by NIOS and is recognised by the Government of India. This course provides vocational inputs to those who deal with Children when they are in their early childhood. It helps parents and also early childhood care/educational workers to provide holistic development of children. This recognised certificate also helps to open a Day care center, or to work as an Administrative coordinator in a school.

 

Every baby and small child has an innate desire and curiosity to explore, learn and acquire skills. 

Adults find it so difficult to hold back toddlers who wish to move around all over the place and investigate everything within their reach. They use all their senses to see, listen, touch, taste & smell whatever they come across.

As the child grows older, he is sent to school to get ‘educated’, but all his motivation and desire to learn reduces.  He then has to be forced to listen to the teacher, take notes, do calculations, complete his homework, and ‘mug up’ for exams. Is it the fault of the student, or is it the fault of all of us adults who kill the curiosity and the joy of learning?

Instead of blaming the system or authorities, each one of us can, and should, do our bit to rekindle the spark of learning in any child we interact with, and send him off on a path of growth to become a capable adult.

It’s not difficult.

We can be rightfully proud of ourselves

Patients treated in American hospitals have lower death rates if they are treated by doctors who were trained in foreign countries than at American universities – and these foreign doctors include many from India.  This was the result of a survey done by Harvard University, covering as many as 1.2 million elderly patients.

In the US, international medical graduates are mostly from India, the Philippines, and Pakistan.

The study questions the perception that some people may have that the quality of care provided by international graduates may not be on par with US- trained doctors. “America has a history of attracting the best and brightest from around the world and that appears to be true in medicine as well. We hope that we are able to maintain that openness because the biggest beneficiaries of these doctors coming to the US have been the American people” said senior author Ashish Jha, and I do hope Mr. Donald Trump is listening.

 

Bilingual Advantage

Those of you who feel burdened because you need to study two or more languages, let us see some advantages of being bilingual:

Overall, the bilingual outperformed the monolingual speakers on memory tests. Bilingual people were also on an average five years older than the monolingual participants.

Bilingual people tend to have better functional connectivity in frontal brain regions which helps them maintain better thinking skills and withstand the damages to the brain. Constantly switching between different languages causes structural brain changes creating a “neural reserve” that helps bilingual people resist mental deterioration.

Bilingual people also have better ‘neural compensation’—the brain looks for alternative pathways to help maintain thinking skills and compensate for the loss of brain structure that comes with aging.

Speaking 2 or more languages may slow down mental decline and eventually help you keep away from dementia, one of the worst things that can happen to you in old age, for which there is no cure.

 

Gratitude is a wonderful habit that can enrich your life significantly.

It is not the same as Thankfulness. We can be thankful for something that we wanted and received, and hence we desire to have more.

When we develop Gratitude, we are thankful for something we received without wanting, expecting or anticipating – and we feel a sense of fulfilment without desiring more.

It makes you feel happy, positive, and helps you overcome failures or disappointed.  You can even have gratitude towards those who treated you badly, because you became strengthened by their behaviour.  You can learn from failures. You feel connected to everyone around you – and you will never experience loneliness. Learn to look at only the good side of people around you.

Just start off with making a journal of all that you received as blessings or gestures or gifts every day…. And read the journal periodically.