Models of Delivering ALC
The powerful ALC is implemented by Sir and his team depending upon who are you as an individual or as an institution. Group ALC for the schools is implemented under a powerful program named Happiness Curriculum For Schools.
Happiness Curriculum for Schools: ALC
Happiness Curriculum for Schools is dedicated to providing youth with a healthy body, a healthy mind and a healthy lifestyle. We do this by offering youth practical tools and life skills to manage stress and emotions. The students are the Stars. Our highly researched and well implemented curriculum STARS+ (Student Training for Awareness & Reward System) includes stretching and exercise, targeted breathing techniques, life skills in conflict resolution, and life lessons on human values such as responsibility, respect, friendliness, kindness and cooperation. STARS+ program covers various aspects of Value Education that is Sadvidya. As students learn how to manage their stress in a healthy way, they exhibit greater confidence and motivation to succeed in school and make healthy choices when faced with life’s challenges. The curriculum chapters of Parent Partnership Program (PPP) helps schools leverage Parents skills for students benefits.
Happiness Curriculum : WHAT WE DO
Happiness Curriculum is offered as an extra-curricular activity both in school and after school. These Happiness Curriculum programs were successful, with students reporting increased mental focus, improved academic performance, greater ability to manage anger and emotions, improved relationships with their teachers, parents and peers, improved sleep and a host of other benefits. Since 2011 STRAS+ Sadvidya program for Schools has been delivered to over thousands of students.
As a result of the great benefits and success of the Happiness Curriculum program, the leadership of Sorsfort had now introduced the same for the international students.
As Happiness Curriculum for Schools grows we continue to explore program development and partnerships to create a sustainable impact that uplifts the lives of youth. The program is conceptualized as a service to students and is non profit in nature.
Happiness Curriculum : WHY WE DO
Unmanaged emotional reactions to stress not only lead to behavior problems in young people, but also create physiological conditions that inhibit learning.(McCraty et al 1999) Yet, the standard school curriculum provides little or no time for teaching practical skills that young people need to cope with the stress and negative emotions they experience on a daily basis.
Research indicates one of the greatest impediments to learning is stress. Stress can disturb the balance of important chemical messengers in the brain. One of these is corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH), the production of which is increased during times of mental stress. Excess activation of this hormone disrupts the ability of brain cells to communicate with each other by delaying transmission of information across synapses (Joels & Baram 2009). Cortisol is another hormone that is activated by stress. The activation of excess cortisol also interferes with neurotransmitter function and makes it difficult to retrieve long-term memories. Research also indicates that stress has a negative impact on performance. Stress is associated with decreased performance in tasks that require attention and the ability to shift focus (Liston et al 2006) and chronic stress has been shown to decreases students’ concentration, learning ability, test scores and overall academic performance.
In addition, young people face emotional issues such as low self-esteem, depression and anxiety that are a source of great stress. Without a healthy alternative, students often turn to unhealthy strategies to cope with these problems such as smoking, alcohol or drugs. Other signs of stress in young adults are aggression, withdrawal from social interaction and engaging in acts of violence. In fact, research demonstrates that stress plays a negative role in normal social interactions. High levels of stress and anxiety are associated with “self-focus,” (Eysenck 1997) rather than the “other-focus” necessary for building relationships. Case studies have found that perpetrators of violence in schools are often highly isolated individuals (Lear et al 2003). With incidents of violence in schools on the rise, maintaining healthy social connection among the student population has become a crucial component in academic and school performance.
By offering youth practical tools and life skills to manage stress, Happiness Curriculum for Schools is addressing a critical issue in education today. As students learn to reduce stress and manage emotions they gain the ability to focus and perform well academically at school, as well as the ability to build more positive relationships with their peers, parents and teachers.
Happiness Curriculum : IMPACT
Happiness Curriculum Leads The Upward Spiral of Positive Emotions, Social Connetcions And Health
People who experience warmer, more upbeat emotions may have better physical health because they make more social connections, according to a new study published in Psychological Science.
To study the bodily effects of up-regulating positive emotions, the researchers zeroed in on vagal tone, an indicator of how a person’s vagus nerve is functioning. The vagus nerve helps regulate heart rate and is also a central component of a person’s social-engagement system. (Happiness Curriculum for Schools’ “Mind, Mediation and Memory” techniques are designed to target the vagus nerve.)
According to the UNC Chapel Hill study, people who have a higher vagal tone tend to be better at regulating their emotions. Participants who entered the study with higher vagal tone showed steeper increases in positive emotions over the course of the study. As participants’ positive emotions increased, so did their reported social connections. As social connections increased, so did vagal tone. In contrast, participants in the wait-list group showed virtually no change in vagal tone over the course of the study.
The study concluded that positive emotions may be an essential psychological nutrient that builds health, just like getting enough exercise and eating leafy greens.
From an educational perspective, this is great news. We all want our students (and ourselves!) to self-regulate, enjoy positive emotions, feel connected, and have healthy hearts!
So Who delivers Happiness Curriculum
Knowing your Academic Life Coach
An academic coach is not a traditional teaching role; rather, it is the opportunity to lead students in a truly Socratic setting using extraordinary technology and teaching methodology. For Sir, teaching is his passion and if you as School Owners, Educators or Parents want to impact your students through usage of new educational models and technologies – his session is for you. Sir works with students during his session/s to set academic and life skills goals. As an academic Coach, he monitors progress and motivate students through their daily, weekly and yearly goals. The goals could be academic or non-academic in nature.
Alongside Sir as academic coach, students explore common challenges they face including time management, test and performance anxiety, note-taking, motivation, text comprehension, test preparation, and other barriers to success at school/college. Typically, the coach and student work together over various classroom sessions to create a strategic learning plan—one that lays the groundwork for awareness of what strategies and practices will be necessary for success in school/college unique academic environment. As a step 2, Sir as an ‘Academic Life Coach’ • help students to be a self-coach, so that each student will be able to seek answers to their questions. • listens to a student practice on the lines of TedTalk and • gives feedback, or brainstorm with a student who is developing code. Sir works on the model of PPP that is “Parent Partnership Program” which further helps the school leaders comes closure to parents and further collaborate with the common goal of student success. Generally this has helped the school stakeholders increase their appreciation of their school, staff and enrolments numbers of students.
What you can expect from Happiness Curriculum
If you or your students have participated in Sir’s group ALC program titled as Sadvidya Happiness Curriculum, you can expect the following that the students
• will feel more confident
• Will feel less stressed
• communication with their parents and teachers improved
• has improved their GPA
• has accepted to their top choice college program
Basically they will be Happynaire First and Millionaire than!
Why Academic Life Coaching with Sir?
The subtle and demanding pace of a todays schools/colleges may pose significant and unexpected challenges for students. Academic Life Coaching with Sir Kuldeep Surolia provides direct, differentiated assistance for students as they navigate this transition.
Not only this. But Sir as an Academic Life Coach is redefining the way students go to school and parents perceive your school. After Sir’s session as an academic Life coach in your school, you will experience the following:-
1. Your students will learn two to three times faster than students in a traditional school
2. Your students will learn the life skills (public speaking, goal setting, leadership, grit, entrepreneurship and purpose) that are necessary to be successful
3. Your student will love school
The Internet is revolutionizing education and how we learn and gain knowledge. Traditional school models are being redesigned as students no longer require a commonplace classroom to obtain knowledge and demonstrate skill mastery. In changing times to come, teacher’s roles are evolving to coaches.
Sir Kuldeep Surolia as an Academic Coach prepares students to think deeply, to learn how to fail and rise again; how to solve problem faster and smarter. We are excited to help prepare students for the ultra-competitive workplace that is evolving at lightning speed. We use adaptive technology to teach core skills faster and more efficiently, allowing us ample time to teach and develop life skills.
Sir’s role as an academic coach, creates an environment where students love school so much, they’d rather come to school than go on vacation – literally.
Common Goals For Academic Life Coaching
Sir Kuldeep Surolia do as an Academic Life Coach covers the following
• Work with students each day to set academic and life skills goals
• Develop both short- and long-term goals for success
• Monitor progress and motivate students through their goals
• Develop students self-coaching abilities
• Listen, provide feedback and brainstorm with students
• Share academic resources and run workshops
• Identify and work through obstacles getting in the way of academic success
• Develop study skills and habits necessary to be a successful student
• Motivate student and stop procrastinating habits
• Prepare for tests and reduce anxiety
• Establish a balance between academic rigor and extracurricular activities
• Improve time management skills of student
• Teach & Track the importance of making notes and acquire the “how to”
• Teach & Track self-discipline, self-motivation, and self-efficacy
• Create Partnership with parents and school leadership and other guides
