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HOW TO IMPROVE

PERFORMANCE

IN SCHOOLS AND CORPORATES

Himanshu Garg

A good quality education results better performance but what is quality education?
A seasoned manager and educationist Himanshu Garg on need of changes in system
of impartment of education.

Improving performance is an issue that opportunities for learning to take place
faces us in different ways throughout the life. rather than manage and control learning.
Whether it is learning outcome of kids or “Form should follow function” has been the
work performance of employees, there are success mantra in every aspect of life, but
some common threads that connect these schools in India have been doing just the
issues. reverse. That has resulted in an education
culture, which tries to assess every student
Let's first look at education. A good with the same measure. The definition of
quality education results in better success has been very narrow and we have
performance of students. However, it is not believed in labelling students very early in
easy to define the Quality education. Is life, which they have been unable to shake
provision of good school buildings and other off.
resources ensuring quality education? Or is it
an updated curriculum that is more My work with multiple schools in helping
important? Or maybe, it is something else them use technology and educator training
that can help us improve learning of our kids. for improving learning outcomes have
allowed me to experiment and measure
W h i l e t h e e d u c a t i o n i s t s a n d results. The biggest learning I have from a
governments in India are still trying to find number of such experiments is that the
the right answers, one aspect that we have educators' mindset is the single biggest
generally overlooked is motivation of determinant of how students will learn. Much
students and educators. By avoiding use of more than the physical resources and
technology, we have continued to use curriculum, the impact of a positive mindset
outdated tools to measure learning of educator has helped every single student
outcomes and learner motivation. And now, in such classrooms to improve performance
we are at a moment when technology has significantly.
become central to all our educational efforts,
thanks to forced closure of all kinds of Ok, let me share some examples. I will talk
educational institutes for more than a year. about an experiment that we did at a school
in Delhi. To give you the perspective, this
It really is an opportunity for school is located on outskirts of Delhi and
educational institutes. It allows teachers to most of the students are children of
play the role of facilitators, by concentrating immigrants from mid to low income families.
o n p r o v i d i n g t h e r e s o u r c e s a n d The school was struggling with Maths and

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