Educationist of the Year Award at British Parliament
Awards & Accolades
Dr Sivakumar Manickam
An Innovative Educational Leader
- Experienced in:
- Teaching Teacher & Head of the Department (Indian School Muscat), Head of the Department (Oman Dental College)
- Academic Development Member of Academic Task Force, Chair of Academic Subcommittee of ISM
- Management Member of School Management Committee (ISM)
- Board Advisory Member of the Academic Advisory Council to the Board of Directors of Indian Schools Oman
- Chairman Chairman of BoD of Indian Schools Oman
Dr Siva has the Expertise, Experience & Education – to lead & change the system. A full-time academician with 30 years of expertise in education. Academic Leadership experience across Teaching, Research and Administration. Award winning Academician, Published Researcher and Writer.
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His Vision, Action and Commitments
School education is being redefined with the growth of artificial intelligence, robotics and biotechnology. Preparing our children for such a rapidly changing world requires relevant and modernised education. This does not mean, however, discarding traditional teaching techniques and replacing them with computer screens. What it does mean is that we must deliver our children core subject knowledge in a way that incorporates this ever-developing technology, which is efficient and engaging, in order to equip them with the knowledge and digital skills that the future will demand.
Delivering the Indian curriculum in Oman presents significant challenges to teachers, school administrators and parents. Being one of the largest networks of schools – with more than 47000 students and 1955 teachers – our Indian School system needs practical solutions that are realistic to implement and highly relevant.
Dr Siva has gained an excellent understanding of our unique and complex education system with experience at ISM as a Teacher, Head of the Department, Member of the Academic Task Force, Member of the School Management Committee, Chair of the Academic Subcommittee of SMC, Member of the Academic Advisory Council to the Board of Directors and the Chairman-BoD.
He, therefore, envisions:
Students
- Empowering them to acquire, demonstrate and articulate the knowledge and skills to become life-long learners.
- Students to rely on school for all educational needs and receive quality education just-in-time.
Teachers
- Supporting and recognising teachers as passionate, skilled professionals with strong digital literacy skills.
- Continue supporting teachers to free them from administrative duties and to focus on academic functions.
Schools
- Configuring schools on the needs of students and the abilities of teachers.
- Providing well-rounded academic foundations that support cultural and global competencies.
- Recent addition of Regional Language Classes to be extended and to continue regularly.
Parents
- Ensuring parents have access to safe, cost-effective and inclusive education.
- Forming Institutional Grievance Redressal Cell. Better financial transparency and accountability.
- Uniform and high teaching and assessment standards.
Key Personal Achievements within Indian Schooling System:
- Provided the Indian schooling system with its first Virtual Learning Environment
- Instrumental in adopting post pandemic strategic measures that successfully revived many financially stricken schools
- Implemented measures to control and monitor quality of online learning and teaching during pandemic with focus on screen-time
- Samriddhi Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching: Courses and programmes for students and teachers
- In-house development of Psychometric Assessments to provide with an insight in to student’s skills to choose appropriate career path based on their aptitude
- Centralised recruitment portal to enable all Indian schools to recruit talent pool
- To instill students a sense of identity and attachment to the family roots, more major regional languages are introduced across Indian Schools in Oman
 | Provided the Indian schooling system with its first Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) by | |
 | Interactive Webinar | Developed interactive webinar portal that is being used by students of ISM and other Indian Schools to |
 | Spearheading the innovative Just-in-time Teaching (JiTT), a pedagogical strategy that forms a feedback loop between classroom teaching and students’ participation in online activities from home. | |
 | Coordinated ‘STAI-2018’ (Science, Technology and Innovation) a mega Inter- School event that has become | |
 | Digital Transformation and process automation | Successfully implemented several process automation and digital transformation initiatives that saved hours of clerical workload for teachers and administration. |
Education
1990-1993
Bachelor of Science
Bharathidasan University
1993-1995
Master of Science
Bharathidasan University
1995-1997
Master of Education (Curriculum Development)
Annamalai University
2010-2011
PGDCA
Bharath Sevak Samaj,
2007 - 2011
PhD (Computational Biophysics)
Bharathidasan University
Work Experience in Oman
Indian School Muscat
HEAD OF PHYSICS DEPARTMENT (SENIOR)
- Served as a head of the department and taught Physics to Senior Section students
- Developed and administrated first computerised e-report card system at ISM. This facilitated easy to understand graphical reports and error-free consolidation for promotion
- Monitored and delegated various curricular, co-curricular & extra-curricular duties
- Launched computer as an interactive teaching tool to teach Physics
- Developed applications in Java-Applets to teach Physics
- Founded Robotics Club & Astronomy Club to promote these disciplines
- Guided students to take part in various national / international science exhibition
- Actively engaged in International Award Scheme (Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme)
Oman Dental College
HEAD OF ELEARNING & ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
- Implemented Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) successfully as a portal for supporting teaching and learning through PCs, tablets and smart phones
- Modernized assessments process as a paper-less, multi-layer secured and multimedia rich
- Provide statistical consultations for several researches and prepare post-assessment psychometric
- Developed several mobile apps and interactive E-lessons for teaching ICT & other dental subjects
- Involved in various collaborative research projects with international researchers in the field of E-learning, assessments and virtual & augmented reality
- Involved in teaching ICT for dentists
- Supervising research students and guiding them for research and obtaining PhD Degree
Publications
International Peer-reviewed Journals
- Siva Kumar, M., and P. Philominathan. “The physics of flagellar motion of E. coli during chemotaxis.” Biophysical Reviews 4, no. 1 (2010): 13-20. DOI: 10.1007/s12551-009-0024-5.
- Siva Kumar, M., and P. Philominathan. “Computational Fluid Dynamics Modeling Studies on Bacterial Flagellar Motion.” International Journal of Fluid Machin- ery and Systems 4, no. 3 (2011): 341-348. JOI:JST.JSTAGE/ijfms/4.341
- Siva Kumar, M., and P. Philominathan. Purcell’s swimmer revisited, Interna- tional Journal of Automation and Computing 9 (3), 325-330
- Siva Kumar, M., and P. Philominathan. “Bringing out Fluids Experiments from Laboratory to In Silico – A Journey of Hundred Years.” American Jour- nal of Computational Mathematics 1, no. 4 (2011): 271-280. DOI: 10.4236/ajcm.2011.14033.
- Siva Kumar, M., and P. Philominathan. “Robo-Linked Purcell’s Swimmer.” International Journal of Fluid Mechanics Research 38, no. 6 (2011): 565-571. DOI: 10.1615/InterJFluidMechRes.v38.i6.90.
- Siva Kumar, M., and P. Philominathan. “Permanent Breakdown of Scallop Theorem: Self-propulsion Through Vertical Reciprocal Motion in Fluid”, Acta Mechanica (Submitted).
- Siva Kumar, M., and P. Philominathan. “Creeping Flow Past Spheres -Insights on Flow Properties through 3D Simulation Studies”, International Journal of Engineering Simulation 13 (2). (July 2012): ISSN 1468-1137.
- JE Gallagher, Siva Kumar, NHF Wilson. “Sultanate of Oman: building a dental workforce”, Human resources for health 13 (1), 50. (2015): DOI: 10.1186/s12960-015-0037-z
- Dr Siva Kumar, “A Geological Paradise on Earth”, Oman Observer, Thursday 10th, December 2020, Link
- Dr Siva Kumar, “The Art and Science of Lying”, Oman Observer, Sunday 29th, November 2020, Link
- Dr Siva Kumar, “A Viral Story”, Oman Observer, Thursday 12th, November 2020, Link
- Dr Siva Kumar, “Virtual meetings, real minds and Zoom fatigue”, Oman Observer, Thursday 5th, November 2020, Link
- Dr Siva Kumar, “The Art of Learning”, Oman Observer, Monday 16th, March 2020, Link
- Dr Siva Kumar, “The Selfi-confidence”, Oman Observer, Tuesday 10th, March 2020, Link
- Dr Siva Kumar, “The Art and Science of Sleeping”, Oman Observer, Monday 14th, March 2016, Link
- Dr Siva Kumar, “When tomorrow becomes yesterday”, Oman Observer, Monday 7th, March 2016, Link
- Dr Siva Kumar, “Newton’s Apple and Karan’s iPhone”, Oman Observer, Monday 22nd, February 2016, Link
- Dr Siva Kumar, “Keep calm and observe ant”, Oman Observer, Monday 15th, February 2016, Link
- Dr Siva Kumar, “Jane, your name tastes like purple”, Oman Observer, Monday 8th, February 2016, Link
- Dr Siva Kumar, “If I only had a brain: With cloud backup”, Oman Observer, Monday 1st, February 2016, Link
- Dr Siva Kumar, “This won’t hurt a little bit”, Oman Observer, Monday 25th, January 2016, Link
- Dr Siva Kumar, “Turn left or right? Always left with the fact that Jane is right”, Oman Observer, Sunday 29th, February 2016, Link
Academic Honour and Volunteer Services
Editor
American Journal of Fluid Dynamics
Reviewing research papers and recommending publications by serving the editorial board for this leading peer-reviewed scientific journal published from USA.
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Research Supervisor & Examiner
Bharadidasan University, India
Guiding PhD scholars and serving as an External Examiner.
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Member, Academic Task Force
Indian School Muscat
Actively participated as a member of Academic Task Force and involved in academic auditing.
Member, School Management Committee
Indian School Muscat
As a member of SMC actively involved in the functioning of school management.
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Chair, Academic Subcommittee of SMC
Indian School Muscat
Headed academics and lead several initiatives including STAI, VLE, JiTT etc. Click here to know more.
Member, Academic Advisory Council of BoD of Indian Schools
Indian Schools
Advising board of directors for issues related to academics and supported Board's various new initiatives. Click here to know more.
Awards and Accolades
Indian School Board of Directors Elections 2023
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