Smart Studen Sept2009

UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION PROGRAMME

Knowledge based skills - Sept 2009 R D Pindoria

Welcome to our UFP

On behalf of the International House University Foundation Programme (UFP), it

gives me great pleasure to welcome you all to this course.

I would like to congratulate you for choosing this foundation programme as an entry route

to a UK University.



Welcome to UFP

• We are delighted that you have chosen to study with us in the most exciting city in the world.

• We hope that your time with us will be both successful and enjoyable.

• Our UFP is challenging and stimulating.

• It will prepare you for university study in the UK.


Knowledge based skills - Sept 2009 R D Pindoria Dr Ravji D Pindoria

Ravji gained his PhD from Imperial College London (1995)Technologist with expertise in Materials Science Physics and Software Engineering

Project management

Teacher/Lecturer

Investment - Business Ventures

[email protected]

www.ravjipindoria.com



What is this lecture about?• About Happiness and success – are you happy? (Q/A verbally by all) 3

• Some interesting metaphors (Q/A verbally by all) 5

• Setting VISION, MISSION and GOALS (written exe setting vision individual) 15

• Sharpening of the saw (what area of your saw needs sharpening? – Q/A group discuss) 5

• Important questions to ask (role play in pairs - by all) 5

• Time Management quadrants (role play for each quadrant – class demo) 15

• Principle centered (to be interpret verbally by all) 5

• How the brain learns (Q/A verbally by all) 5

• How clue-ful are you? C = G + LT (discussion by each group) 15

• Knowledge based skills (each group to discuss and present skills) 15



Who is the happiest person here

King Abdullah

APJ Kalam

Albert Einstein

Nelson Mandela

Kavi DalpatRam

Mahatma Gandhi

Cavendish



Happiest person is the one who has the most

interesting thoughts.

Happiness is all within yourself, in your way of

thinking



Where is Happiness?

• True happiness stems from a quality within ourselves, from a way of thinking of life. Happiness is everywhere around you and about you.

• The quest for happiness is always in vain unless you can find it within yourself, within your own heart and soul.



Group formation

Count from 1 to 6



Happiness life curves

Addicted to Alcohol

Poor diet

Promiscuous

behaviour

Cigarette

Person on path A

Person on path B

50 100Age (years)

(A)

(B)

Hap

pine

ss %



Some interesting metaphors

• Each groups to interpret happiness-life curves

• Einstein and Intelligence

• Each groups to interpret metaphors

• The Jar

• Each groups to interpret metaphors



VISION, MISSION and Goals



Vision, Mission and Goals

• State your vision• State your Mission• State your goals• State your values

• Any Obstacles?

What is your focus on ?



Sharpening of the saw

–Example of a woodcutter– Mental development (Education)– Spiritual development (Dharma, Mahatma-Gnyan-Bhagti,

Vairagya,

AtmaNishta)– Social skills (Getting on with people)– Physical development (Health and Fitness)



Important questions to ask are:

• what is broken here?

• What needs to be fixed?

• How will you fix it?

• What is missing?

•



The time management quadrant To be effective you need to be in Quadrant 2

Urgent - Important Not Urgent - Important

best quadrant to be in

P/Pc - in Balance here!

Urgent not-important Some telephone calls

Not –Urgent & Not - Important

to meet deadlines Q 1

Q 2

Q 3

Q 4Going to cinema?



Be Principle Centred

• Battleship example (Loya 5-6)• P/Pc in balance Principle base

U 235 Bombs



Knowledge based Skills

• How to be a smart student.

Self-control is strength

Right thought is mastery

Calmness is power



How does the brain learn?

• Role play - Questions/A• Problem solving• Asking questions• Experimenting and failing and retrying• Watching others• Reading and doing a course• Writing• Teaching others



How Clueful are you?

G4

G3

G2

G1

C = G + LT

Time

C

L4 L3 L2

Lo

L1



Knowledge based Skills:

• Research and enquiry:

• Creativity and Innovation:

• Capacity to use high-end technology:

• Entrepreneurship:

• Moral leadership:

• Ref: (APJ Kalam)



Research and enquiry:

• Today it is all about management of knowledge and information that we have generated and what value addition that we can bring.

• As a student: - you want to develop skills to find a way through the sea of knowledge that has been created and continue with lifelong learning- This is important skill required for sustained economic development.

• Ref: (APJ Kalam)



Creativity and Innovation::

There is vast amount of information around us and this is overwhelming.

When information is networked the power and utility of the information grows as squared as predicted by Metcalf’s law.

Student must learn how to manage knowledge collectively by linking to networked groups. (Ref: APJ Kalam)



Capacity to use high-end technology:

• Student must learn to use the latest technologies for helping their learning process.

• Computing equipment

• Laboratory facilities

• Internet facilities• Good environment to enhance learning

ability. (ref: A P J Kalam)



Entrepreneurship:

Student must learn to take calculated risks for the sake of larger gain as per “Dhandho” concept, but within the ethos of good business.

Learn to cultivate character to do things right. This capacity will empower them to take up challenging tasks later in life.

(Ref: A P J Kalam)



Moral leadership:

Two aspects are involved here:

1.Ability to have compelling and powerful dreams or visions of human betterment.

2.Develop character to do the right things and influence others also to do the right things in compelling ways .

• (Ref: A P J kalam)



Useful reference material• Seven Habits Of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey

• Using the Brain's Natural Learning Process to Create Today's Curriculum by Rita Smilkstein

• http://www.hocking.edu/~aaffairs/FacDev_files/brain_based_pedagogy.htm#NHLP• www.ierg.net/confs/2004/Proceedings/Smilkstein_Rita.pdf • The ways to win Will Carling and Robert Hellers

• Indomitable Spirit (ISBN: 8170286549) by A P J Kalam

• Rules For Renegades" by Christine Comford-Lynch.

• http://www.ericsink.com/Career_Calculus.html by Eric Sink

• Thank you for your time - Please E-mail me if you want a copy of this lecture notes. [email protected]

• Also visit my web site at: www.ravjipindoria.com

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