The Progressive School Vol 02 Issue 04

• Slate chalk games: Give a slate and
chalk to each child and make them
sit or stand in the manner that two
kids face each other. Ask a question
and let them write the answers on
the slate. Once the teacher says turn
around, each child shows his slate to
his partner.
• Spinning board should be made
with different topics. As soon as the
spinner stops, the revolving pointer
stops on a topic and randomly a kid
is asked to speak something on that
topic.
• Memory word games: These can be
used for the junior level kids, who can
improve their vocabulary with it.
Academics - a rat race?
Academia has turned into a rat
race, leading to a deep change in the
fundamental structure of academic
behaviour, and entailing a self-defeating
and hence counter-productive pattern.
The teachers are pressurised to finish the
syllabus on time and the parents pressurise
kids to come first. This has become a mad
race.
Students should learn to accept
criticism and both school and home should
counsel them that way so that the rat race
can be coped up. Teach the students to
love themselves and accept failures in the
positive way. And consecutively admire
those who are able to successfully get out
of the rat race, because very few people are
able to follow their passions and succeed
in unconventional streams.
Integrating learning
experiences…
When I was in school, I was taught
comprehension only in reading class,maths
in only mathematics class, and so on. I
often wondered why some math concepts
weren’t taught in science since they
somehow seemed to have a relationship.
Also, maths it is described as one that
Pinky Banik
connects different areas of study by
cutting across subject-matter lines
and emphasizing unifying concepts.
Integration focuses on making connections
for students, allowing them to engage in
relevant, meaningful activities that can be
connected to real life.
Students not only connect and
create more real world connections in
integrated classrooms, but they are
also more actively engaged. Creating
an integrated curriculum means that
teachers are charged with having to create
challenging, fun, meaningful tasks that
help students connect to information.
Creating a solar system unit that also
requires oral language development and
practice, reading comprehension skills
and mathematics, can engage students
far more than just a lesson on the solar
system alone. Integration helps to achieve
retention and engagement in classrooms,
which yields higher mastery of content
standards.
Learning: a lifelong process
Education is a part of life itself and an
infinite preparation for life. As technology
advances quickly, lifelong learners have
to learn new skills and adept to rapid
changes in professional and personal
environments. Nowadays, we replace
workers with learners or community
members to acknowledge all participants
in the learning. They also give educators
the ability to create a private network with
a clearly defined purpose, an alternative to
using Facebook—a system that may be
perceived as primarily a “social” system—
for educational purposes.
When we are in the classroom, 90% of
your interest in the subject depends on your
teacher: if the teacher is passionate about
his/her discipline, then students can feel it
and care more. Even if they have problems
with this class, they do not feel afraid of
looking for the teacher’s help because
passionate teachers are usually very open
and eager to offer any assistance ever
after school hours, so learning beyond the
classroom are much more sensible.
Learning outside the classroom helps
children feel the nature better and become
more concerned about the environmental
issues, which is also crucial today.By
taking learning beyond the classroom
you’ll find dozens of opportunities to make
learning concepts, real and relevant by
putting them into a more realistic context.
Suddenly their minds are free to explore
and you can often end up with some very
creative results no matter what subject
you’re teaching them.
Experimenting is also a fantastic way
to learn – very young children learn a
huge amount about volume and textures
by simple things like sand and water play,
whilst older children enjoy becoming
nature detectives and learning about minibeasts
and their habitat.
Co-curricular activities facilitate in
the development of various domains of
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