Amity Academic Leadership Forum For K-12 Schools India, Amity University Gurugram Organized Panel Discussion on 21st Century Skills and Employment on 17th November 2021.
Total 177 Students, Teachers, and Parents from 6 schools are St. John School, Faridabad, Grand Columbus International School, Faridabad, Pathania Public School, Rohtak, Gems International School, Gurugram, Amity International School, Pushp Vihar, New Delhi, Amity International School Sector-43, Gurugram attended the session.
Mr. Sachin Juneja, Director, Market Promotions moderated the session and discuss major key points on 21st-century skills and employment.
Dr. Amrita Vohra, Director of Education for GEMS Education, India and Executive Principal for GEMS International School, Gurgaon.
Expressed her viewpoints with research that in the coming future there will be more than 85% of jobs in existence which we have not heard of. She focused her view on misinformation, disinformation, and overloaded information and added that technology can not control us this is only for our benefit, despite all the progress we need empathy, emotional quotient, intelligence quotient, and social quotient, and compassion.
She added more by emphasizing the importance of entrepreneurship, she pointed out the changes students have to opt for, as earlier students used to opt for jobs coming from the same courses, later they started to change their career and now they seem to change their career in every 5 years. Considering this there is a big need for entrepreneurs.
Mr. Anshul Pathania, Managing Director, Pathania Public School, Rohtak shared that in the 21st century, There is a lot of skills related to technology. The Medium & media has been changing but middle things will be constant and students should be able to adapt to the change. Leadership & Entrepreneurship must be emphasized in the students to lead the corporate world. We should encourage the students for idea making and give them the platform to implement these ideas.
Ms. Aparna Gautam Panda, Principal, St. John’s School, Faridabad
Mentioned that there are many challenges in making students industry-ready because Indian parents are so much in love with their students, they are over-possessive, over protecting that they don’t allow schools to try new methodologies, to implement new pedagogy. Only good marks are not a sign of holistic development, potential in students and happiness is also important but to parents, at last, marks are more important. She also praised the government for reforming education through NEP. The basic character, the vision of NEP is good and according to skills and employment needed. We must accept the change, She emphasized.
Ms. Deepika Sharma, Principal, Grand Columbus International School, Faridabad
Shared that India’s economy is a reflection of its education system. In today’s time, good student is associated with good marks only, this must change to improve skills according to employment. NEP is a very good concept, a must need but proper implementation is a must. Since there is a huge displacement amongst all stakeholders it will be very hard to implement. Vocational training is very important as there is no balance as of now between what is required and what is delivered.
Ms. Ameeta Mohan, Principal, Amity International School, Pushp Vihar, New Delhi
She rightly mentioned that gaming is great learning for students nowadays in 21st Century Skills, student can collaborate their other skills during online learning. Technology has reached students in the form of virtual learning, gaming, and Artificial intelligence. She also mentioned that students work on preparing presentations on their own, students are smarter than teachers, how to ease out things for others, students are preparing themselves for the growth of the country.
Ms. Anshu Arora, Principal, Amity International School, Sector- 43, Gurugram
She explained that gurukul is the perfect example of learning of skills in past times they taught students how to handle people, relationship, There are few broad categories are learning skills, critical thinking, problem-solving, collaboration, that We need life skills to learn, relearn when we are preparing students to make them ready for 21st century. She also explained emotional quotient, Intellectual growth skills are being developed by teachers. We are monitoring children and focusing on their skills to make them a perfect blend for today’s employment.
The session ended with a vote of thanks by Mr. Sachin Juneja, Director - Market Promotions.