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Feb, 2016

How do you motivate a slow learner?

Teaching is a profession that has challenges and amazing returns in the long run. It requires a lot of patience that helps you reap the rewards much later. In order to bring about marked improvements and tangible results in your students, you need to evaluate the learner’s intelligence and his or her ability to muster up the confidence to deliver results.

A slow learner often is sensitive and very self-conscious. Most of them are well aware of their weaknesses and lack confidence to boost their performance. Here are a few ways in which slow learners can be motivated:

Find out the main issue: Slow learners have different sets of reasons why they perform badly. As a tutor, it is essential that you find the true reason for the learner’s weak performance. A good amount of interaction is necessary along with a tracking of the activities undertaken by the learner himself. You can adopt new ways in which the slow learner can be guided and help him or her learn new styles of learning.
Take extra classes: Teachers should often encourage students to come over for extra classes that are beyond the set timings of the classroom. Extra care and practice is always necessary. Individual attention may help trigger a need for change in the student. As a teacher, you should adopt new methods of teaching and stay cool with the feedback. A lot of patience is also necessary when teaching slow learners.
Slow is not necessarily inferior, but different: Never encourage a feeling of neglect among the slow students. These children are not unwanted and may deliver results in the long run. Do not let the short term goals deflect you from the long term perspective. Learning disabilities can be ameliorated if proper care and attention along with audio visual aids are used in imparting education.

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Jan, 2016

By MyEdge

4 tips to creating an effective social learning strategy

Technology is creating a rage worldwide. In a tech savvy world, you can tap into a wealth of informational resources without even leaving the confines of the home. Social media platforms and the social learning strategies that can help in making a big difference in learning outcomes of students spread across far flung geographies. This article is to help teachers make their social learning strategy more effective. To make your learning strategies better and more effective, here are a few things that can be done:

Assess a learning strategy that helps you move forward. The amount of social learning you would want to incorporate is crucial in determining how and in what ways do you want to make an impact on learning outcomes. Some students who take to virtual learning, are more comfortable with asynchronous and autonomous learning and will take a lot of time and resource to opt towards a more social based learning platform.
As a teacher, you should have set goals about the learning objectives and the social learning platforms. Underlying the social learning elements and exploring the subject matter by infusing more real life based situations can actually benefit both the teacher and the pupils.
Try and form groups on social networking sites and also encourage group collaborations. The main idea is to get learners involved in core content and share the links of resources and references on the social sites. By simply posting on social media, you can help spread information easily and effectively. You can also post blogs and encourage learners to spread a healthy word of mouth for the posts and social media page.
Ask the learners to share your class sessions on social media and YouTube. This will help create a positive environment for more such online learning initiatives in the future.

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Jan, 2016

By MyEdge

3 effective online learning strategies for tutors to teach better

Our knowledge of online teaching and learning is growing in leaps and bounds. There are a host of best practices that tutors need to follow when tutoring online. These effective teaching strategies can help you get started in an online learning environment. You can develop comfort and confidence, experience and patience when you get implement these techniques.

Be present at the course site: It is imperative that you have access to online tutor virtual e libraries. These will help increase your efficiency as a tutor. You can refer and recommend these online e books to your students and also learn from them yourself. Communication tools such as discussion board postings and online forums offer enough space for the students to communicate with their guides. Just like in traditional teaching, online tutoring requires a lot of mentoring and care that can help create irrevocable bonds.

Create course communities that hone skills: If you are a tutor, teaching a professional course, you would need to develop online communities that set the course for balanced dialogue. This includes faculty with student, student with student and student with resource relationships respectively. You can help enliven the studying environment and create a social, cognitive and a teaching presence by interacting well with all stakeholders in an online teaching environment.

Brainstorm and use strong behavioral experiences as a model: Online courses are very effective if you have an opportunity to brainstorm and introduce concepts effectively through role playing and by working in teams. Complex case studies and scenario discussions are very good for long term study retention.

The use of several synchronous and non-synchronous activities leads to a more collaborative and reflective learning environment. Online learning sessions can also be recorded and reviewed from time to time. This helps in self-assessment and development in real time for both students and the tutor.

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Dec, 2015

By MyEdge

INSPIRATIONAL WOMAN WHO FOUND HER EDGE IN INDIAN BUSINESS PART – 2

Entrepreneurship and business may have its ancient roots in India, most Indians feel it is a risk not worth taking. Starting a business, unlike in the West, is fraught with many challenges in India. To begin with the Indian mindset does not value the importance of innovation and self-discovery. If you are a woman, this may be an amplified many times over!

Women entrepreneurs in India, not just fight the challenges of cultural bias, they also lack a safe environment to reach their goals. Women have it doubly tough in India, is because most of them get overwhelmed with the pressures of balancing work, family and home.

Here is an amazingly successful Indian woman who has carved a niche for themselves in business and have put India on the global map.

If you look at India’s rapidly rising pharmaceutical industry, one name stands out as exemplary. A woman who broke all barriers and carved a niche in a world at a time when possibilities were limited for women. Kiran Mazumdar Shaw started Biocon with a capital of Rs 10,000. Armed with a degree from Bangalore University, Shaw wanted to be a doctor but never received the scholarship for the course. She went on to pursue an alternative dream of studying malting and brewing in Australia. She worked briefly in the profession before taking up a job at Biocon Biochemicals Limited of Cork, Ireland. Shaw always had a fire burning in her belly. Her interest of owning a business herself led her start Biocon India in 1978. The company, initially, struggled to find its grip in the pharma sector. Today, Biocon India is worth $3.61 billion USD. It is one of India’s top companies and figures globally in the top 500 companies by Forbes and Time magazines. Shaw is one of India’s and the world’s most powerful women whose company has seen double digit growth rates year on year!

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Dec, 2015

By MyEdge

Inspirational Woman Who Found Her Edge In Indian Business Part – 1

Indian women have always been at the forefront of business and enterprise. For centuries, women here have fought along the men in battles and achieved supremacy in science, literature, arts and crafts. Still, amid all the past grandeur, most feel a sense of the invisible gender divide in society. As a mark of the breaking the set norms, countless of gritty and perseverant women have climbed up the ranks of corporate India and broken the glass ceiling. Many of them have scaled the heights and done that with laughter, patience, hard work and belief. These women never gave up and contributed to society in different ways.

Chanda Kochar, is among the elite group of Indian women, who are educated, self-starters and ambitious! Lording over a bank that has assets worth $125 billion USD, Kochar is India’s most powerful female corporate leader. She is the MD of ICICI Bank and is credited for a 14 to 15 percent rise in profits year on year. Kochhar was born in Rajasthan and has a vast educational background that included a BA, MBA, ICWA and a MMS in Finance. She started her career at ICICI bank as a management trainee and rose to Managing Director in 2006. Thus began a journey of empowerment and diversification for the company. Under Kochhar’s leadership, ICICI bank has scaled amazing heights. She has also received the Padma Vibhusan in 2011, the second highest civilian award in India. Kochhar is a towering figure in banking across the world and is an icon for women all over the world.

Women are fast learners of the Internet and use technology in effective ways in daily life in comparison men. Online social learning platforms such as MyEdge.in have done their bit to inspire young girls, and create a space where learning and teaching has no physical boundaries.

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