JOB DESCRIPTIONS

DUTIES OF OFFICERS, MEMBERS AND COMMITTEES

The person responsible for the job must know what the job is! Each officer has specific work to achieve and functions to perform.

Obligations and responsibilities of officers, members and committees should be written, analyzed and evaluated annually. Obligations of officers should be listed along with purposes, opportunities and the channels of procedure.

Duties of officers should include relationship with others in Council, the procedures and the objectives. There should be recognition of available resources and equipment for achieving Council goals.

Group member roles played and status requirement fulfilled by individuals are vital ideas. Both, officers and members must be informed about the Council, its committees, its leadership and its progress in reaching objectives. Obligations to the community should be listed as well.

I. Students Council Chairman

A. Represent the student body at national level, civic events and other meetings.

B. Supervise the functioning of the elected student body officers.

C. Develop the agenda for and preside over the meetings of Student Council.

II. Students Council Vice-Chairman

A. Represent the student body at school national, civic events, and other meetings as requested by the president.

B. Coordinate the work of committees.

C. Preside over Student Council meetings in the absence of the president.

III. Students Body Secretary

A. Maintain the student body files.

B. Prepare agendas for meetings.

C. Take and distribute minutes of meetings.

D. Represent the student body at national level, civic functions, and other meetings as requested by the president.

E. Sign all purchase orders.

IV. Students Body Treasurer

A. Coordinate the preparation of the annual budget.

B. Present the proposed budget to Student Council for adoption.

C. Maintain financial records of the student body.

D. Prepare financial reports for meetings of Student Council.

E. Assist the bookkeeper with sales as necessary.

F. Coordinate fund raising projects for the student body.

G. Sign all purchase orders.

V. The Council Member

A. Communicate ideas from the student body to the Council.

B. Serve the chair committees.

C. Volunteer as needed.

Qualities necessary for Office Bearers of the Executive Committee of students council are:

• Leadership skills – Are you willing to lead committee.
• Creative – Are you able to think new and exciting activities and fundraisers for the student council.
• Communicative –Are you able to share ideas with other student council members.
• Team player – You could be working with the council to generate ideas and organize events for the Student Council.
• Responsibility – You may be responsible for running activities pervasively and you must be reliable.
• Commitment –This is a year-long activity and if you volunteer now, you will be expected to come to all meetings for the remainder of the year. There will be at least 2 meetings throughout the year after school, so if this does not fit into your schedule, please do not volunteer.

Meetings of the Executive Committee

• The Executive Committee of the Council shall discuss the programme of activities at least twice in a year.
• A notice of at least three days shall be given for meetings of the Committee by the Secretary. Urgent or special meetings may be convened on short notice on the authorization of the President.
• The proceedings of all the meetings of the Committee should be recorded.
• 50 percent shall be the quorum for the Executive meeting.
• The Chairman has the right to convene the Executive Committee of the Council any time.

Duties of Students Council:

• It gives a chance to the students to display their leadership skills and further improve those skills for future.
• It also helps students to learn the importance of team work.
• Students learn to take responsibility at an early age.
• Since the members of the council are students, they also represent the ideas of rest of the students of the school. They know exactly what is right for students and what's not.

Through projects and activities, students council work to:

• PROMOTE CITIZENSHIP
• PROMOTE SCHOLARSHIP
• PROMOTE LEADERSHIP
• PROMOTE HUMAN RELATIONS
• PROMOTE CULTURAL VALUES
• PROMOTE SELF INDEPENCENCE
• PROMOTE LITERACY (REMOVE ILLITERACY)
• PROMOTE INTERNAL HAPPINESS
• PROMOTE BROTHERHOOD & NATIONALISM
• PROMOTE SKILL DEVELOPMENT
• PROMOTE EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES (WITH IDEAS)

PROMOTE CITIZENSHIP

• By supporting and further developing democracy as a way of life.
• By involving students in meaningful, purpose-oriented activities.
• By helping each student develop a sincere regard for law and order, appropriate to the democratic society.
• By leading each individual in developing a sense of personal responsibility and earned self-respect.
• By idolizing through teaching the processes and procedures of democracy.
• By encouraging desirable attitudes and continuous upward development of valued patterns of good citizenship.
• By providing a forum for student opinions, interests and desires; so these may be understood by the entire student body, faculty, administration and community.
• By honestly reflecting and interpreting the student viewpoint.

PROMOTE SCHOLARSHIP

• By contributing to the total educational growth of all students in the school.
• By encouraging highest standards of scholarship and positive student involvement in learning and thinking.
• By providing experience in genuine problem-solving procedures.
• By providing training and experiences in the skills and techniques of good citizenship and leadership to prepare articulate citizens and leaders for a progressing society.

PROMOTE LEADERSHIP

• By providing young people with the power and right to speak and especially, the power, right and privilege of being heard by those in authority.
• By avoiding the commercial or cultural exploitation of students.
• By providing coordination of school-sponsored student activities with constant evaluation in terms of the selected purposes.
• By promoting opportunities for leadership among student body members.
• By utilizing the ideas and support of students in solving relevant school problems.

PROMOTE HUMAN RELATIONS

• By helping create harmonious relationships among faculty, administration, student body and the community.
• By providing organized services to the school in the interest of the general welfare.
• By communicating purposes, activities and the other positive elements of school life through mass media to the entire community.
• By helping young people to further realize the genius and dignity of each individual.

PROMOTE CULTURAL VALUES

• By sparking school loyalty, pride, patriotism and individual student development.
• By providing real experiences in group development and human understandings.
• By helping students earn and protect individual rights and responsibilities.
• By selecting projects and activities which seek to achieve purposes which are significant in the life of the school community.
• By giving young people deeper reasons for attending school and the stimulus for developing commitments to worthy goals.
• By helping each student reach maximum educational growth and development.

PROMOTE HUMAN RELATIONS

• By helping create harmonious relationships among faculty, administration, student body and the community.
• By providing organized services to the school in the interest of the general welfare.
• By communicating purposes, activities and the other positive elements of school life through mass media to the entire community.
• By helping young people to further realize the genius and dignity of each individual.

OBJECTIVES OF STUDENTS COUNCIL

• To initiate, implement, and complete projects and activities which will be of help to the school, the students, the faculty, the administration, the Board of Trustees and the community.
• To develop and provide opportunities for leadership and service in the local school and in the community.
• To encourage personal growth of leaders through participation in district, state and national meetings and organizations.
• To provide a live workshop on democratic processes, through activities like; elections, participation in a constitutional representative assembly, etc.
• To contribute to the educational experiences of students by providing them with a positive involvement in the school, with widened areas of responsibilities and with more direct participation in organizing and implementing activities.
• To encourage and provide essential knowhow of organizing conferences, seminars & conventions.
• To promote respect for law & order and general welfare of the school & community.
• To promote awareness of Moral/Values/Ethics, human relations, power structures and how one effectively operates within them. These objectives are realistically approached through increasing avenues of cooperation among the administration, faculty and students.
• To provide a viable means for student expression and an increasing amount of Morale & self- direction.
• To improve understanding between and within groups. through interactions and communication.
• To develop student potential and encourage them to make a well-informed, honest, interested and active citizenship.
• To develop not only leadership abilities within the youth prevailing today, but also leadership for the community, state and as a whole; future of nation. In this process, it is also the objective to develop an awareness of good leadership qualities; hopefully, for a more informed, concerned and active citizenry of tomorrow.
• To increase student involvement and school pride.

SHINING SOULS believes school life is not only about academics, games, friends and fun, in fact it is also about learning to interact with other people, being aware of the social issues/inequities and learning to amend the deformities present in our society.

Start with something small: Making a difference doesn't mean doing something that's going to change the world. However, you can do things that make a difference to yourself, your family, friends or community. Do not weigh your efforts to find how big or small they are. Remember that you're making an effort to make someone’s life a little better and to make people happy.

There are plenty of ways younger kids can make a difference in the society, with their small and influential steps. These are:

• Plant a tree
• Feed the hungry
• Donate your books, toys and clothes
• Encourage education
• Encourage updation of Information Technology
• Promote universal brotherhood
• Promote prohibition of different forms of discrimination
• Feeling of nationalism & refraining glorification of caste
• Organize several activities on social issues
• Respect for different cultures
• Maintenance of clean surroundings
• Awareness and execution of Moral/Values/Ethics
• Boycott of pollutants in her/his life
• Acceptance of good ideology.

Lots more...

Today’s youth is tomorrow’s nation. And today’s youth are our students. Students play a vital role in the society and on how a society is shaped generation after generation. The formative period of an individual is during the student phase and hence, it is known to be the crucial time of life.

When students are being treated with due respect and responsibility, they have also lived up to be responsible and respect in return to the society. When being recognized, they have the acceptance to work for a better society through hardships rather than giving up in between.

Today, there are many activities for which students take initiatives, for the betterment of the society. We have seen that students of the younger classes taking steps to plant trees thereby promoting awareness programs on protecting tress and the importance of planting trees for the coming generations, rather than destroying trees. There are activities where students promote the awareness of old age and rescue shelters.

Apart from these, when there is a natural calamity in any part of the globe, schools across the globe contribute to the affected people and place what they can and this kind of programs would help realize young children; the importance of brotherhood.

Apart from services, we have political arena where students are seen. With the right kind of motivation and guidance, they could become the most trustworthy, most accepted and sensible leaders in the coming future. However, if exploited, they could become worst and corrupt leaders. It is we who bring the good and bad out in our students.

We have seen how the youth stand as one, against the negative aspects like corruption, violence, terrorism and fight for peace and security of the nation. However we see that there is a lack of patriotism in the youth slowly coming up, which destroys the harmony and peace of the nation.

Students act as bridges between two generations. They need to realize and understand today’s happening, eliminate the bad, extract the good and implement tomorrow. For this, understanding the right education with the right involvement of the happening is a requirement and the education system should see to it if it is being equipped for a better understanding rather than classifying education as elementary, secondary or higher education. The syllabus and the activities should be framed in such a manner that it is interactive and interesting; so that students understand and signify the importance of what they learn.

If we do not mould our youth today, we may have to regret tomorrow as tomorrow’s nation is in the hands of our upcoming youth and they in turn would pass on what they have acquired in a better format to the forth coming generations, thereby enabling the nation to grow in all sectors and make her one among the most powerful and harmonious future nations.

Students must realize the importance of the relationship between an individual and the society. Man belongs to a society and students are an important part of it. Students cannot live in complete isolation from the community-life. Even a school-going student is bound to have links with other people, who together form a society.

Students can play an important role in improving and strengthening the society. The simple fact is that united we stand, divided we fall. The society is the manifestation of that united existence and the students are part of the society.

So let us join hands now for a better tomorrow through our youth who are budding students now. India needs us and we should stand for HER….

Upcoming Activities

SHINING SOULS NATIONAL STUDENTS COUNCIL is coming with lot many activities on NATIONAL PLATFORM.

So let us join hands now for a better tomorrow through our youth who are budding students now. India needs us and we should stand for HER….

Activities Like.

• Plenary Sessions
• Debates
• Conferences
• Seminars
• Conventions
• Work Shops
• Declamations
• Act Plays
• Science Exhibitions
• Olympiads
• Fashion Shows
• Dance Competitions (Solo/Group)
• Singing Competitions (Solo/Group)
• Social Cause Activities
• Sports Activities

BY YOUTH,

FOR YOUTH!!

A sincere and innocent contribution towards national welfare & growth.
Standard for Evaluation

Please refer to the table below to increase your chances of winning.

Zone	States
NORTH ZONE	Jammu & Kashmir, Laddakh, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Chandigarh, Uttarakhand, Haryana, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh
EAST ZONE	Bihar, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura, Meghalaya, Assam, West Bengal, Jharkhand, Odisha, Chhattisgarh
WEST ZONE	Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Daman & Diu, Dadra & Nagar Haveli, Maharashtra, Goa
SOUTH ZONE	Andhra Pradesh, Telengana, Karnataka, Lakshadweep, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, Andaman & Nicobar