PRINCIPLES OF MANAGEMENT SESSION 2

Living Life to Educate

Everybody is transformed into a mature human being by education . In today's world, Education has taken a new meaning of competition other than learning. All of us are running towards marks and recognition from other people , but nobody is concerned by personal development . This thought is very much prevailing in society and everyone is judged on this criteria. Still in every generation there are people who think differently and do things in a subtle which was done by a man called Mr. Salmaan Khan. Khan revolutionized the way we look at education. It all started when he started tutoring one of his cousins interactively using Yahoo Doodle images.

If talk about Mr. Salmaan Khan, he is a graduate of the prestigious MIT, born as a Bangladeshi and Haward Business School. Today his video tutorial library has more than 3500 video lessons encompassing lessons ranging from basic arithmetic to hard core complex functions and calculus, from biology to economics, from astrology to physics and what not.

The Khan Way

  How it all started:

The Khan Academy started with Khan remotely tutoring one of his cousins interactively using Yahoo Doodle images. Based on feedback from his cousin, additional cousins began to take advantage of the interactive, remote tutoring. In order to make better use of his and their time, Khan transitioned to making YouTube video tutorials.

Traditional Teacher think how a thing like this possible but it was made possible by this man . There is one illustration proving it .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTFEUsudhfs

 Here is a small demonstration of the genius brain in pictorial form:

 A Snapshot of the website. http://www.khanacademy.org/

                                      An Innovative Dimension to online teaching!

Our schooling system never treates a student to the amazing world of logic. Millions of children don't know that something like this exists. I was one of them until recently. But when I came in contact with it, it was amazing!! I was amazed to discover the extent to which logic decides every moment we spend the way we spend it. 

Now let's talk about the IITs. The institutions really grill the student. It's so tiring and stressful that students go into depression if they don't get a seat. But who's to blame? I say it's our schooling system. The IITs essentially test the student on the application of concepts. I never thought that I was applying when I was in my school. It's what Mr. Salman Khan, founder of the Khan Academy, says - our teaching system at present follows "one size fits all" rule.
This system needs to change, and Khan Academy has done wonderful job in at least moving in that direction.

Mr.Salman Khan- Theory Y Manager

Mr Khan made  proves theory Y manager real . He saw an opportunity in the world of education and tried to change the status quo . He never thought that people will accept it or not but went to launch an concept which is thought provoking . Underlying concept was always to make an positive impact on student  and thought that students will take  it positively . Everyone is present to improve themselves and society as whole . This positive attitude gives strength to everybody  to change life into a better one .

All this creates an successful and happy manager who is vibrating and willing to change . He tried that everybody gets appreciation on their performance so he created following concepts 

1.     Hall of fame wall.

2.     Appreciation wall.

3.     Student of the month.

This is further aid to the motivation of students.

Conceptulisation:

Conceptualization concept states that how we can integrate small parts and creates something much bigger. Here is the biggest example that I have come across in recent time, which elaborate this concept further.

Khan has stated a vision of turning the academy into a charter school:

This could be the DNA for a physical school where students spend 20 percent of their day watching videos and doing self-paced exercises and the rest of the day building robots or painting pictures or composing music or whatever.

A November 2011 grant of $5 million from Ireland-based The O'Sullivan Foundation, founded by Avego MD and cloud computing pioneer Sean O'Sullivan, will be directed to three initiatives:

1.    Expanding the teaching faculty

2.    Extending content through crowd-sourced contributions following a Wikipedia-style model

3.    Developing curricula to help users blend the content with physical teaching through STEM learning

Recent teaching appointees as a result of the grant include Dr. Steven Zucker, formerly of Pratt Institute and Dr. Beth Harris, from the Museum of Modern Art in New York, to produce art and history content. YouTube video creators Vi Hart and Brit Cruise have also joined the teaching faculty.

A series of summer school camps are planned to start in Northern California from June 2012 to test curricula for real-world schools.

Last Thoughts:

The conclusion part would be this that in case you wishes to actually do something that as a visionary educator like Mr. Salmaan Khan, then make sure that you follow the few principles mentioned below:

1.     BOUNDED RATIONALITY: As a manger one must always make sure that no crude data in full form will ever be available, you must have a visionary leader and a forecaster to make sure that with limited information one must be able to make sound decisions.

2.     Management by objectives: In organization every bit of planning is done by keeping by keeping objectives in mind. Vision must be Impossible, Crisp, Rosy, kick for anyone who reads it.

3.     Believe in Hawthorne Effect: A term referring to the tendency of some people to work harder and perform better when they are participants in an experiment. Individuals may change their behaviour due to the attention they are receiving from researchers rather than because of any manipulation of independent variables.