About Shikshayatan
The children come from our own village and from the neighbourhood. We take on even brain injured children because we believe in the efficacy of our philosophy and teaching methodology we call QuadSeek. After two years with us, people are hard put to find the child in a group of normal children. Of course this is especially true when the child comes to us as early as two years of age.
Features of the school
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A laboratory/library on wheels that can be taken to other primary and middle schools in the area. The mobile lab is also equipped with a computer with multimedia and a video – TV to screen educational films
60 computers with multi media where children from Grade 1 on work on their own
A language laboratory.
A video section where children’s films are screened every week.
We have created a complete teaching kit along with a teacher’s handbook that gives details on how to use the learning materials that have been created.
The kit is being used in all the schools that have adopted our system
Children work in an environment of freedom and joy, learning without pressure at their speed, without fear of home-work and examinations
About Student of Shikshayatan
The school is a project model to show how QuadSeek can be put to optimal use.
Our children have a wide understanding of the world.
They can add, subtract mentally up to 20 at the UKG (age 4 – 5 years).
Children who are in the third standard are able to write compositions and short, imaginative stories of their own.
They read English and Tamil with equal ease.
They are able to read non-fictional, essays and writings (‘Kalki’ Krishnamurthy, OASwaminathan, Vandu Mama’s books in science) and understand and write answers of their own.
By the 5th standard they read and refer to encyclopaedias for children and can write short compositions.
Our children (now in other local high schools) have scored more than 95% in the SSLC board exams.
Some of our achievements as seen through the achievements of our students inspite of their economic and social status:
T. Govindarajan: did his NIOS with us, was selected by DJAcademy of Design and Arts, was given scholarship by the college, stood first in all the semesters. He is now working as a designer of games and toys and doing well for himself.
K. Sabesan, A.Jagdish, both topped their class in the 12th standard; one has joined engineering college with scholarship and the other is doing his C.A intermediary.
Seetalakshmi is first in the University of Pondicherry, Department of fine arts.
One was a chef with Barbeque Nations, Mumbai, now is freelancing
One is helping run a school Inodai, in Mumbai
15 children have done their engineering;
10 have done their Masters in computer application
3 children have done their fine arts courses
1 child cleared the CLAT exams and is now studying law at Madurai
More than 75 have done their graduation and are now employed at various levels and also in the Middle East.