STUDENT PROFILE

LEARNING OUTCOMES

Personalized learning
Targeted support
Improved student engagement
Deeper understanding of students
Better academic performance

INTRODUCTION

The world around us is rapidly changing. Children have access to quickly evolving technology, and they learn pretty fast. They often engage in a multitude of activities that take them beyond textbooks. Is is a shared responsibility between parents and schools to provide opportunities that help students develop various skills that they can use in any career to prepare them to keep up with the changes discover themselves, and be prepared for their future.

What is a student profile

A student profile is a snapshot of a student's learning journey. Student profiles encompasses students basic details, descriptions of themselves, education, career goal, courses undertaken and work experience. It also has a place to list hobbies, skills, badges earned, accomplishments and memberships

A portfolio is an important part of the student profiles as it highlights the noteworthy projects done by students. Student profile bring to life the depth and breadth of a student's academic life. Student profiles display a timeline of students learning journey and progress made through their school or college life.

Why is a student profile needed

Development and inherent knowledge of one's own aptitude and liking and interests are missing in most students, caught up in an otherwise academic/test focused world other than traditional school subjects exposure to the application relevance of learning different things and their interdependence in the real world is largely missing.

Accomplishments, academic records, and artefacts of extracurricular activities are scattered in unstructured repositories. And as a result, students and their parents are unable to analyze, find patterns and drive insights from the progression of their learning journey.

Student profiles captures key information about students life academics, skills developed, interests, accomplishments and aspirations and ready to showcase when needed for higher studies and career opportunities

How to make a student profile

My sphere is conceptualized and designed for students to help in their career preparation and give them a safe space to build their impressive profile and digital portfolio Students can visit my sphere and start creating their students profile and portfolio.

Student profile includes multiple sections:

About yourself : Students can write about things excite them, their career aspirations, and interests in the about section
Work experience: Apart from writing about their education students can mention their work experience. It includes summer internships, volunteering or freelancing work
Course: Additionally, courses taken for up skilling and enhancing knowledge can also be listed here
Portfolio: Is the highlights of a student's profile. It showcases the best projects of a student
Accomplishments: Activities other than academics from an important part of students holistic development. Accomplishments such as getting published in the school magazine, receiving an award, getting a scholarship, earning a certificate and winning sports medals add weight to the profile
Badges: Add a lot of character to a profile. One could get a badge for being a house captain, debate master, cultural head or hundred percent attendance. Students can demonstrate many qualities like leadership, timelines or dedication through badges
Memberships: Mentioning membership like Nature club, photography club, Drama group in the profile indicate areas of interest. Finally, the skills section emphasizes the natural talent and areas of expertise of a student

Why is student profile important ?

Academic scores, standardized exam results, research potential and work experience (part time/ community service, and leadership) are all factors that the admission committee considers while making its choice
Students and their parents can form a data-driven informed view about a student's interests, abilities, strengths and weakness. The same stands true for career counsellors and consultants
Students can write about their learning experiences and insights gained in their portfolios. Revisiting these reflective notes help them analyze and improve their ideas and get a better perspective. While journaling, students capture their learning logs reflect on them and develop critical thinking and writing skills. Based on their learning journey they are better able to make sense of their interests and based on that what are the suitable career opportunities for them to choose from.

Some LMs include a service intended to support the management of student profile,these services are not designed with the aim of managing either trustworthiness or collective intelligence data gathering. For instance Moodle as a representative LMS system. Which is being extensively adopted by educational organization to keep educator create effective e-learning communities, support the management of student profile as follows: