M-CLAP stands for Meru Career-Readiness, Leadership and Life Skills, Academic Enrichment Programme. It is a comprehensive K–12 initiative designed to holistically prepare students for academic success, personal growth, and future career opportunities. By integrating academic progression with essential life skills and leadership development, M-CLAP ensures that students are well-equipped to navigate the challenges of the modern world and achieve their full potential.
The programme includes key modules on:
- • Entrepreneurship
- • Financial Literacy
- • Life Skills, Leadership & Career Awareness
Entrepreneurship
A course aimed at inculcating an entrepreneurial mindset which is geared towards innovative problem-solving skill development, which can be employed in any real-life situations students may encounter. Students will be exposed to the core fundamentals of thinking like an entrepreneur and will be equipped with the skills and knowledge required to successfully transform their ideas into reality.
Key Topics
- Ideation
- Business Modelling
- Marketing and Branding
- Finance
- Digital Identity
Projects
- Business Modelling
- Pitch Deck Presentation
MCLAP Life skills program in action
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Financial Literacy
Let’s explore Financial Literacy and Entrepreneurship Skills of M-CLAP
MCLAP Life skills program in action
This course will introduce students to the fundamentals of managing money. Students will learn about responsible saving and spending habits? Inculcating these values at a young age will help students fall into the habit of managing their money early on and continue this practice into adulthood.
Glimpses of Financial Literacy in action
Click hereStudents will learn many other important skills, including:
Juniors
- Foundations of Financial Literacy- Budgeting
- Income, Expenses
- Banking
- Interest Rates
- Fraud Protection
- Risk Management
- Important Regulatory Bodies
Seniors
- Foundations of Behavioral Economics
- Financial Planning and Money Management
- Investments
- Risk Management
- Digital Currencies
Life Skills
Let’s explore Leadership and Life Skills of M-CLAP
Leadership and Life Skills provide a solid base of life that will help our learners achieve social, emotional, and academic success during their early years and build upon that success in middle and high school to a career of their choice and potential in life.
All levels of the curricula include standard-based lesson plans with objectives, time estimates, activity sheets, and educator resources Assessment questions and extension activities conclude each lesson.
MCLAP Life skills program in action
Students will learn many other important skills, including:
Grade EY to Grade 5
- Public Speaking
- Presentation Skills
- Writing Skills
- Conflict Resolution
- Team Management
- Problem-solving
- Ethics
- Empathy
- Teamwork
Grade 6 to Grade 8
- Team Management
- Decision Making
- Research & Critical Thinking
- Assessing strengths and weaknesses
- Being a Leader
- Ethical Responsibility
- Positive Thinking
- Introspection and Reflections
Grade 9
- Stress Management
- Introspection and Self-Awareness
- Managing Expectations
- Goal-Setting
- Volunteering Business
- Writing Skills
CAREER GUIDANCE AND SUPPORT VIA M-CLAP
Internal Competitions & External competitions
We have a dedicated team of career gurus to help students navigate through any challenge that comes along the way. Our career gurus offer support, including organisational, academic and test-taking skills. They also help students develop peer relationships, coping strategies and effective social skills.
Communication, problem-solving and conflict resolution are a big part of the counsellor’s role along with providing valuable education. We go beyond college counselling and focus on lasting interventions to enable students to develop professional skills oriented towards expertise and long-term usefulness rather than a purely academic one.
The other roles of the career gurus include:
- Goal setting/decision-making
- Career planning
- Individual and small-group counselling
- Psychometric tests
- College and Course Selection Strategy Workshops
- Create & Draft College Applications – India & Overseas
- Guidance on building the SOP/ Essay
- Strategize and review of Letter Of Recommendations (LORs)
- College Readiness Group Discussions Prep with Case Studies
- Resume/ Portfolio/ Profile Drafting
- Personalize list of colleges for each child
- Profile building and monitoring
- End-to-end guidance on profile building
- Prepare for the college interview process
- Application, Transcript & certificate reviews
M-CLAP: MERU CAREER-READINESS, LEADERSHIP AND LIFE SKILLS, ACADEMIC ENRICHMENT PROGRAMME
Let’s explore Meru-Career Readiness Program
M-CLAP is a K-12 schooling programme that prioritizes Academic Progression along with Career Readiness among all students to secure productive employment in their chosen pathway – efficiently and cost-effectively. This programme is the initial step towards enhancing leadership skills, and giving students the freedom to choose from a plethora of career options.
MERU Career Readiness Standards
MERU Career Readiness Standards is a mix of formal and informal ways of enhancing attitude and aptitude among children from EY to Grade 12. It focuses on teaching the skills needed by students to succeed in real-world jobs. This, in turn, will guide them in developing their employability skills. India needs more skilled employable youth in order to achieve the projected $5 trillion economy.
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