Education is a major step for almost everyone in pursuing a career . What is taught as topics in schools contain underlying concepts and skills. Schools often concentrate on the ability to reproduce what is taught but pay little attention to the understanding of concepts and development of key skills from an early age. Teachers are extraordinary contributors to the building of children and, therefore, a nation. Still, schools address a mass or a group in their processes, not individuals. That leaves a gap and that is what SkillsOnward.Com aims to fill. Every child is unique with different talents and skills. Our schools, by nature of the system, are not equipped to harness individual talent. Sometimes it is even difficult to identify the talent a child possesses. Skills can be transferred, talent cannot be. Besides, we teach the present and what is already known. How do we prepare for the future? How do we help children become better thinkers and daring innovators?
There is only thing that counts in the world: PERFORMANCE. That’s what SkillsOnward will help.
If one has been observing the Western Express highway and the connecting NH48 that runs through Mumbai areas, they had problems from the 1970s and they still have problems today. I believe this is because we are trying to solve the traffic and congestion problems that accumulate every 4-5 years or so. Maybe it didn’t occur that highways should be built to accommodate traffic envisaged in 15-20 years in the future. Perhaps finance may also have been be a constraint. Looking into the future is not easy. That’s where knowledge and skills must work together to carve out your own path as best as possible.
We always seem to be building for the current or past problems. What if we thought about education in the same manner? Lately, a new mobile gets outdated within a year or at the most two. When the airline industry opened up around 1995 hundreds of cabin-crew training schools opened up. Some still survive, others have gone under with business cycles. Most of the airlines in India too have gone under. Skills also drive SURVIVAL.
The process & objective: In its articles, this site will discuss various issues of the present (and a bit of the past) and what can be changed and how learning at schools can be complemented by parents. This, so that the learning outcomes are most suited to the future and not to yesterday or just the present. Obviously, it must be understood that there are some basic concepts that are enduring and permanent and those don’t need any dramatic changes. For instance, the relationship between the Sun, Moon and Earth is not going to change. At least not for eons. And all the changes don’t have to be in the content alone but in the methods used for teaching and learning. This is the humble attempt that this site will make.
As with students, teachers, parents and working professionals also need to keep upgrading their knowledge and skills. This site caters to everyone who is in the pursuit of knowledge and skill. Those who can benefit from this site are: 1) Parents 2) School teachers & faculty members of higher education institutions 3) Students of high school and above and 4) Education domain professionals and researchers 5) Working professionals in any domain.
About the founder: SkillsOnward.Com was created in 2014 by RS Narayan. He has worked in important positions in top corporations in the private sector in the areas of Finance, Marketing and Sales. But his passion for education made him shift to the school education domain. In the course of his work in this domain Narayan has met over 3000 schools in the country and interacted with their principals. He has also trained teachers in programs created by WIPRO and has interacted with thousands of teachers, children and parents to understand needs of Indian education system and he hopes to see a better future for our children. Narayan is also known for his writing and speaking skills and has interacted with many higher educational institution students and faculty like IIT, IISC (Bengaluru) and many informal groups. He comes from a family of educators who have shaped school education for over three decades.
