Does school prepare your child for life?

As a parent, Children's day surely holds immense significance, especially if you have a child in the formative years of schooling. So let’s start with a question that might interest you.?

Ever thought about whether the education your child is getting is good enough to prepare them for life??

Your basic expectations would entail Math, Science, Social Sciences, Languages and probably extracurriculars such as dance, music and so on. However, have you thought about their understanding of the world matters? And whether your child is literate about empathy, compassion, environmental issues, and everyday skills such as accounts, taxes, law, sports, arts and nutritional wisdom??

According to a survey conducted by Standard & Poor’s Financial Services LLC, approximately 76% of Indian adults do not adequately understand key financial concepts.?Other research and surveys have indicated a similar lack of understanding about key legal, technological, emotional and overall well-being concepts.

The rate at which the world is evolving today- your child definitely deserves more.

Not more syllabus. Not more hours of study. But a more advanced and structured format of schooling.

And that’s where Stellar steps in with its philosophy of life literacy, which forms the pillar of education for life for its learners.

Life literacy.

This is an umbrella term for all those aspects that should be an imperative part of?school education in our country. Overall, there are 12 forms of literacy that can empower your child and enable their all-around development early on.?

1. Intellectual Literacy - To allow critical appreciation of abstract or complex forms of art, knowledge, and sciences through debate and logical analysis.?
2. Academic Literacy - To compare, contrast and synthesise ideas and develop the ability to grasp new concepts and learn better.?
3. Emotional literacy - To inculcate values such as empathy, gratitude, resilience and perseverance early on and help them express their feelings and ideas constructively in the long run.
4. Cultural literacy - To imbibe their home values while appreciating other cultures and growing up to be global citizens.
5. Financial literacy - To learn the basics of personal finance and financial planning and help them become aware and worldly-wise individuals.?
6. Environmental Literacy - To understand the importance of compassion towards nature, communities and future generations.?
7. Technological literacy - To be safe, responsible and effective users of digital platforms.?
8. Occupational literacy - To learn about functional and soft skills needed to excel in the career of their choice.?
9. Artistic Literacy - To develop imagination and personal expressions through visual art.
10. Physical Literacy - To learn more about nutrition, exercise, meditation and other aspects of creating a healthy lifestyle for one’s overall well-being.?
11. Legal Literacy - To know one’s fundamental rights, laws and their role and contribution towards the functioning of society.?
12. Social Literacy - To learn to express and act positively as well as responsibly in a range of complex social settings.

These 12 forms of life literacy are unique to Stellar’s curriculum, and it is the 1st school in India to develop it as the foundation of schooling.?

Now you may ask- while life literacy seems brilliant as a concept, how is it put into practice? In the next 12 weeks, we will focus more on each of these literacies and talk about how Stellar is helping children learn these literacies in the classroom.

What do you think about life literacy? And what’s the magnitude of change you think it’ll bring in the future of education? Let us know in the comments, we would love to know your views.

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