Renowned Canadian Qur'an reciter and IT expert Qari Imran Khan said the success mantra for students in this high tech world lies in switching their strategy from work harder to work smarter.
He also highlighted the role of both motivating teachers and positive parents in achieving all round development of the younger generation. Khan was delivering a lecture on Parents, Teachers and Student Resource Management at the auditorium of the International Indian School Jeddah (IISJ) on Thursday evening.
The function was organized as part of an awareness program for the parents of class IX students to discuss the concept of Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE) as well as to give them insights into the tools and measures used in the CCE.
Several prominent figures including IISJ Principal Syed Masood Ahmed and Vice Principal Najeeb were also present. Noufal Palakkoth, headmaster (Boys Section IX-XII), conducted a PowerPoint presentation on the CCE. There was also a question-and-answer session and interaction with schoolteachers.
In his speech, Khan, who is an old student of the IISJ, called on teachers and parents to work as a team to encourage excellent output from their children. Highlighting the significance of their collective role in this regard, he said: "Please don't play the blame game for the failure of students. Give emphasis to inspiring children rather than impressing them," he said, while urging teachers and parents not to undermine the capabilities of children.
Holder of a degree in electronics engineering from Memorial University of Newfoundland, Khan is an international Qari (reciter) of the Holy Qur'an and an expert in the art of Qur'an recitation (Tajweed). He has given Adhan (call for prayer) and Tajweed seminars across the world and his Tajweed program has been featured on Sharjah TV for the last three years. Khan, who hails from Hyderabad, is a Canadian citizen currently working at Al-Khaleej Training and Education Institute, Jeddah.
On his part, Headmaster Palakkoth gave an impressive presentation featuring various aspects of the CCE, the new evaluation system introduced by India's Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) with the objective of decreasing the accumulated stress of board examinations on students.
"As a team, IISJ teachers are proud of effectively implementing the CCE method and reaping the rewards by scoring the best ever performance results in the all India secondary school certificate examinations last year," Palakkoth said, adding that the new evaluation system enables the teacher to know how much he or she developed and the students to learn how much they have achieved.
Palakkoth also highlighted the significance of implementing the scheme with the active involvement of parents.
The CCE aims at helping students improve their performance by identifying their learning difficulties and abilities at regular intervals right from the beginning of the academic session and employing suitable remedial measures for enhancing performance.
The scheme, which has inbuilt flexibility for schools to plan their own academic schedules as per the specified guidelines, helps the students who are not good in academic subjects to show their talent in other fields such as arts, sports, music and athletics. This is a new term to assess the all-round development of a child through a series of curricular and extra-curricular evaluations.
© Arab News 2012
