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Happiness Index For Schools: in Focus

Mrs. Nikita Kothari is an academician with over two decades of experience in academia. She believes happiness should be the cornerstone of education, as students need to be happy to learn, regardless of curriculum relevance. Schools should develop empathy, support, and address stress and anxiety among students. They should also help orient parents to the concept of freedom of choice in education and careers. Measuring happiness in schools can be done through questionnaires, student and parent feedback, attendance rates, academic performance, and other factors. Ensuring student well-being requires focus on health, robust physical education, and policies supporting all students. A multi-cultural approach celebrating diversity through art, music and group discussions can highlight unity

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Happiness Index For Schools: in Focus

Mrs. Nikita Kothari is an academician with over two decades of experience in academia. She believes happiness should be the cornerstone of education, as students need to be happy to learn, regardless of curriculum relevance. Schools should develop empathy, support, and address stress and anxiety among students. They should also help orient parents to the concept of freedom of choice in education and careers. Measuring happiness in schools can be done through questionnaires, student and parent feedback, attendance rates, academic performance, and other factors. Ensuring student well-being requires focus on health, robust physical education, and policies supporting all students. A multi-cultural approach celebrating diversity through art, music and group discussions can highlight unity

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IN FOCUS

HAPPINESS INDEX FOR


Mrs. Nikita Kothari, is
SCHOOLS
an academician with over
two decades in academia, Happiness means knowing, believing in, and loving what you’re doing. With
having been involved happiness as the cornerstone of everything we do, the students learn to
at High School, Middle love school and lifelong learning. The teacher should believe that no matter
School, Higher Secondary, how relevant the curriculum might be, students need to be happy to learn.
and Teacher Training. She
has been instrumental The education in classrooms should develop empathy, count on support,
in setting up schools, and deal with negative worry, stress, and anxiety. Schools should endeavor
designing school curricula, to orient parents to the concept of ‘freedom of life choices’ as in India, parents
and working with officials tend to dominate the decision-making for education, career, and life partners.
in the various schools
across India to maintain The framework of looking at people, place, and process and
standards of effective understanding the key elements of happiness, for it is often
schooling, bringing in argued that happiness can be subjective and personal, would play
Moral values and culture a pivotal role in promoting a happy school and a happy nation.
in the students.
She is currently the MEASURING HAPPINESS
Principal Of Arunodaya Measuring happiness among various parameters used for measuring
Public School and was the Happiness Index and people's psychological well-being is considered
the founder Principal Of a prime factor. Schools play a significant role in developing the right
Narayana e-Techno School attitudes, perspectives, and emotional stability among growing children.
Kalyan Branch.

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While happiness may be both social, and emotional needs of are practices that schools can
relative and subjective, it’s the students. Psychological well- adopt to help students utilize
not unquantifiable. Because being starts with one’s health. time effectively. Schools should
the teachers should strive to Schools should emphasize a undertake action research on
ensure optimal satisfaction at robust and dynamic physical time use and management of
their school, we can measure it education program. It should their activities during school hours
according to the following factors: not compromise on time made and use the data available for
available for sports and games, preventive and corrective actions.
1.A questionnaire through which club activities, other programs that Teachers should also learn how
the happiness index is computed cheer up the school environment. to optimize time for what we
treasure as educational goals and
2.Feedback from students Moreover, policies that affect demonstrate them to students.
students' morale who don’t Schools should have a strong
3.Testimonials from parents· fare well in academics should multi-cultural policy and bring
be revamped. The curricula value, respect, tolerance, and
4.Regular attendance· should be supporting ability- celebration of all these cultures.
based education cultivating Learning about different religions,
5.Positive referrals and five major abilities of students languages, morning assembly
sibling admissions· – social, moral, academics, themes, homestay experiences,
physical and emotional. special day observances are
6.High academic performance· some small steps in this journey
Young children should be valued of learning co-habitation.
and respected. Goal setting,
Schools are often perceived scheduling, force field analysis, A multi-cultural curriculum in
to be knowledge centers with cause and effect diagrams, self- teaching language arts and social
just the bare minimum time for awareness activities, time logs, sciences could highlight the unity
addressing the psychological, and delayed gratification response in diversity. Group discussion on

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seeing different points of view diagrams, self-awareness


should be a regular feature in activities, time logs, and delayed
the school. The dual purpose gratification response are
of learning should be reiterated practices that schools can adopt
to draw attention to cultural to utilize time effectively. Schools
perspectives and associated should undertake action research
values. Education through art, on time use and management of
music, dance, drama, and craft their activities during school hours
will easily achieve these goals. and use the data available for
preventive and corrective actions.
We need to develop positive
teacher attitudes and attributes A multi-cultural curriculum in
and improve teacher conditions. teaching language arts and social
Education should move from exam- sciences could highlight the unity
based to learner-based approach. in diversity. Group discussion on
The curricular framework should seeing different points of view
give equal importance to the should be a regular feature in
physical, social, and emotional the school. The dual purpose
development curriculum, just of learning should be reiterated
as there is a well-defined to draw attention to cultural
curriculum for core subjects. perspectives and associated
Large numbers of people have to values. Education through art,
be trained in these areas so that music, dance, drama, and craft
it does not exist as an exclusive will easily achieve these goals.
subject in a few experts' hands.

Goal setting, scheduling, force


field analysis, cause and effect

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