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DR M Bastin Kumar

B.Ph., M.A., M.Ed., PGDELT., M.Sc. (Psy.), D.Litt.



ABOUT ME


Professional Experience

1 year as Teacher of Communicative English

9 years as Teacher of English

7 years as Principal

1 year as Academic Head of Riju & PSK NEET/JEE coaching classes, Thrissur, Kerala

Designations Held

Teacher

Soft Skills & English Language Trainer

Basket Ball Coach

Choir Master

Coordinator

Principal

Senior Principal

Academic Director

Academic Advisor

Resource Person

Observer of Board Exams

District Coordinator (Academics & Training)

Professional Credentials

Certified CBSE Resource Person for CCE, English Core XII, Classroom Management, Career Guidance, Life Skills and Gender Sensitivity, Value Education, Upholding Ethics and Integrity in Schools, Experiential Learning & Strengthening Assessment and Evaluation Practices & Happy Classroom

Certificate of Honour from School Education Dept. of Tamilnadu in 2008-09

Certificate of Honour from Academic Council of Matric. Schools of Erode Dt. of Tamilnadu

Co-author of two articles in 2015 at CENBOSEC, the official half-yearly journal of CBSE

SET certificate holder in education

Effective Participant of National Conferences of CBSE and other confluences for school leaders

National Rank Holder for teaching High School English certified by CENTA (Centre for Teacher Accreditation)

IDEAL PRINCIPAL AWARD from ALL INDIA CITIZENS DEVELOPMENT CENTRE, Aurangabad, India

ASIA’S GREATEST PRINCIPAL AWARD 2020-21 by Hummingbird Education LTD, Delhi

BEST PRINCIPAL AWARD 2020 from Institute of Scholars, Bangalore

OUTSTANDING LEADERSHIP PRINCIPAL OF THE YEAR 2021 by Asian Education Awards, San Francisco

PRINCIPAL SPEAKS


“Education is not the amount of information that is put into your brain and runs riot there, undigested all your life. We must have life-building, man-making and character-making assimilation of ideas.” -Swami Vivekananda

With the ‘knowledge’ explosion running rampant across the globe as well as the society where we live, the same has crept into the classrooms of now, creating tension and turmoil in the tender minds of children who long to have a joyful and fun-loving schooling today. Learning is almost similar to eating. It is not how much you eat that matters, rather how much you digest.

Therefore, we do not need more academic qualification but Intelligence (quickness to learn), Skill (ability), Competence (ability along with willingness to apply) and Attitude (values). It is high time that the paradigm shift from ‘learn to earn’ to ‘learn to live’ is to be brought into the classrooms of today in order to bestow on our children the bountiful gifts that life awaits with.

If a child can’t learn the way we teach, let’s teach the way they learn. But the teaching-learning process must enrich the cognitive aspects such as consciousness, imagination, perception, thinking, intelligence, judgement, language and memory while enhancing the non-cognitive aspects viz. emotion and instinct.

When this sort education system is carried out with utmost dedication, I am pretty sure that every young mind will be endowed with a joyous learning towards a blissful living.

Wishing all teachers, parents and children a happy schooling now and in the ages to come!