Best education system for Indian kids | IB curriculum ( Episode 1)

0:02 for more recipes conversation DIYs for kids don't forget to subscribe to our channel and hit the bell icon so you never miss a video from kids stop press coffee [Music] TV today joining us we have Wanaka Z who is the founder of reach IV calm she's also an HBS and a Carnegie Mellon Alan welcome Donna thank you so much thank you guys for having me here Aizen ever evolving in the innovation space so I feel like we're making strides

0:34 really slow strides but I feel like there is a directional shift the big difference and the undergraduate level is obviously in the advent of international curriculum these curriculums did exist you know when I went to school here in Bombay so the advent of the ID board the GCSE of the cambridge system it's brought about the sort of alignment to international curriculum making your transition from an a new curriculum to an international curricular much easier its facilities

1:00 the transition I went from an Indian system I did the ICS C and the HSC here in Reno and had a very tough time in my first semester in the United States because it was a very different style of teaching a very different style of adapting the knowledge in the examinations and in the classrooms so I feel now a lot of the students we work with given the I me only a level advantage they're able to transition

1:21 very smoothly to their international curriculums however this remains the FIR viewer obviously of the very wealthy as alright 500 international schools in the country so it doesn't really speak for the country as a whole these international schools have also realized that when they apply to universities internationally the schools are looking for holistic profiles hence we see a lot of focus on extracurriculars the schools now plan you know this summer holidays the schools will plan ski trips and

1:50 extravagant you know hiking opener trips etc the schools are very focused on multi-dimensional training schools really promote if a student is really gonna take the piano or an elocution or drama the schools will now have more levy relative to when we were in school because it was still purely academic in its focus so I feel there is a shift there however I feel and the postgraduate level we still remain a grade based system and I think that is

2:17 really thats detrimental to our system it's detrimental to the society as a whole because there's so much pressure on students to you know wrote learn and crack this one thing you know examination whether it's at the 10th grade or the 12th grade we cleared up 12 years of our life duties being honest examination the tenth standard and then that forms the basis for admission to for your eleventh and twelfth and if you don't do well in the twelfth and you're

2:43 not going to get into engineering or medical or whatever it may be so this grade based cutoff based system is something I feel like we need to look beyond if we're really looking at aping the West or trying to bridge the gap that you spoke about I believe that the first thing we need to do is connect the admissions policy we need to look at more holistic or your rounded applications move away from the cutoff mentality and say okay you know we have

3:09 a threshold so we evaluate anyone from let's say like an 80% to 100% let's put the whole pool together and let's see what else does the 80% student bring to the table you know is he bringing expertise in you know piano is he bringing is he a national level swimming champion you know because anyway if you take one track then you're just stuck with that triangle some I only mentioned power how international curriculum Susan are providing for you

3:34 know a multi-dimensional approach towards a suit do you feel that you know the and most parents have that mindset ok humility I see I see I see when we turned out just fine and again students if they learn in the roadway or the kind of rigorous math or science that we do it's much easier for us to switch and adapt and eventually at least you're keeping the doors open for they want to you know push your college or school in

4:00 India versus doing it doing it all internationally do you feel like that myself is changing Roadshow oh it's a very good question and some a pertinent question because this is really something that a lot of parents are debating with I don't think parents should look at one curriculum in separate superiority versus the other I think the trick really lies in understanding your child and understanding how your child's gonna adapt and what teaching style suits your child some children take very well to

4:32 academic rote learning they like the rigor they like the discipline and they have a great memory power in which case the Indian system works fabulously for them they get a very strong base again very well entrenched in mathematics and the sciences and they're able to memorize large amounts of information which as you proceed towards your postgraduate degree and even later on in life is very very beneficial because you have very rigorous academic base some students on the other hand don't adapt

5:02 well to rote memorization now unlike our times they have a choice now if the academic learning system doesn't work for you you have the International curriculums we do not want you to memorize heaps of you know books and sheets they're looking for more application based learning so you're someone who likes to read and adapt and processes in then write a paper on you know what you studied in class then that systems would work belfry what are

5:30 parents of a six year wonder need to know we're looking at in terms of extracurriculars who build that sort of multi-dimensional personality to say that okay you know I am this mistress has got an all-rounded perspective to life sure great question so you are supposed six and eight I get asked you know for newborns they get asked when men are like two years old and that they're your age is to say no please give them a lot of love and

5:55 that's the baby that's all you can do as your child gets a little older what we encourage is creating a culture of curiosity and that I really feel is the basis for you know your child then going on to pursue extracurriculars this craving for knowledge if you can instill in your child you know this ability and desire to ask questions and not accept the status quo on which you can as a parent you encourage you know saying okay why

6:23 why is this life you the color ages and why is the table balancing on three legs versus you know one accept it so as a parent if you can engender this element of curiosity I think it's going to really do want to square a child and another key trait to instill is a self-driving initiative I see a lot of parents not only in India but internationally the whole concept helicopter parenting where even in India a lot of women contrary to people will

6:53 even over now women are in the workplace etc there are women who are still dedicating a primary element of their lives to bringing up their children which is great but you know the amount of involvement really needs to be measured is there something distinctive that these universities or schools are hangout in terms of extracurricular is elevated so absolutely so what are the schools look for right so when we look at this we break this down into four big components

7:22 the primary component is academic rigor as I said before it's not cut off based so as long as you fall within a broad range of that even if you're going to talk 20 percentile of your class so obviously you're not going to necessarily if someone is in the bottom 5% right so let's be realistic about this as long as you meet a certain academic threshold then we say we agree you're in this threshold let's look at

7:44 what else you have the next thing we would look at is any professional or career oriented work you've done so at the undergraduate level it's internships it's special projects etc obviously at the postgraduate level it's the real-world work experience you had in terms of extracurriculars so there are two ways to go about this a lot of people will go for breath where they will dabble in like 12 different things just because they work that's the kind

8:11 of person they are you know so they'll have a portfolio in art they'll you know be like skating for their school or city or club or wherever and they'd also be playing a musical instrument and your i-78 other things but there are seven or eight things happening but they're happening at the school level or this cloud level etc yeah so they're not able to build or showcase serious expertise but are you able to showcase of breadth of

8:37 experiences well then there are some students who pick maybe two things sometimes even one sometimes maybe three and they really go in depth in their pursuit of excellence on those are the kind of students that the universities are beginning to take a preference to us but the schools like both breadth as well as step so again you have to understand the person the individual and you know really Kato or roadmap or a structure for the person

9:07 there is no like one-size-fits-all there is no secret code of cracking or university it really is student based but ability to showcase excellence beyond the average beyond the norm is really what a university is looking for now again there are limits to what you need to do and it's really important to understand those limits because we see a lot of parents you know really going crazy trying to get connections but sometimes the Ministry and the Prime

9:33 Minister the Prime Minister's go to release my son's book the university's admissions committee they're not stupid you know there's a reason they are admissions advisors or directors at Yale or Princeton etc so they also have a realistic sense of like is this really achievable by a 70 year old versus you know all is how much of this is really driven vs. child women and if they feel that you the balance has been it's too tilted towards the

9:59 film or like professional guidance then you know this high actually that you're not going to get it so keeping it off magic or keeping the student voice very much intact is really critical a because thank you so much for joining us today we've had a fabulous session I have learned so much as a parent and I'm sure so many other parents are going to benefit from this conversation so thank you so much for joining us an absolute

10:22 pleasure thank you for having me and you know it's a great opportunity for me to dispel a lot of bits that both students and parents have so and so doing this [Music]