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Children have
significant cognitive growth. In a very real sense, children think
differently than adults.
The experiences should be very positive and mind-expanding for a
child — as long as they are done at the right time. Children need
real-life experiences with real people to truly benefit from
proper learning environment. Children have to have an integrated
and well-balanced set of experiences to help them grow into
capable adults that can handle social-emotional interactions as
well as develop their intellectual abilities.
Balance and timing are
the keys to healthy development.
Provide the right kinds of experiences at the right time. For
example, if you take a newborn and do not hold that infant and put
her in a seventh grade classroom and leave her for the afternoon,
it's not a good experience. It can actually be abusive. But, if
you take the 14-year-old child and rather than having them spend
the afternoon in school, you hold and rock them all afternoon,
that is not the right experience at the right time for that child.
What's important is when experience is provided and how it's mixed
in with other crucial experiences.
Parents
and teachers must act as facilitators in children's learning.
For example, sitting down together and using playing cards is a
very cognitive experience. They can learn how to add, they can
learn how to predict, they can laugh, and they can learn how to
win. In their interaction with a parent they're using this
externalised object which is a playing card and a game .As
parents think about the future they need to realize two things:
Early childhood education and proper learning environment for
child development and behaviour. So our task is to balance
appropriate skill-development with learning technologies with the
core principles and experiences necessary to raise healthy
children.
Children learn best
when their physical needs are met and they feel psychologically
safe and secure. They construct knowledge. They learn through
play. Children's interests and "need to know" motivate
learning. Human development and learning and are characterized
by individual variation. Children in the age group of 2 to 6
years are especially vulnerable to effects of positive learning
environment. From the age of 6 to 10 years, the children
consolidate the learning through experiments, motor skills,
symbols and pictures to an eclectic form. The natural process
of learning and proper learning environment forms a solid ground
for a child to go in for higher levels of education.
What should the early
childhood education provide? Early childhood education should
create the following in the child:
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Awareness:
Experience, Acquire an interest, Recognize broad parameters,
Attend, Perceive
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Exploration:Observe,
Explore materials, Collect information, Discover, Represent
Figure out components, Construct own understanding, Apply own
rules, Create personal meaning
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Inquiry:
Examine, Investigate, Propose explanations, Focus, Compare own
thinking with that of others, Generalize, Relate to prior
learning, Adjust to conventional rule systems.
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Utilization:
Use the learning in many ways; learning becomes functional,
Represent learning in various ways, Apply to new situations,
Formulate new hypotheses and repeat cycle
It is now evident
that greater emphasis is to be on:
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Active, hands-on learning
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Conceptual learning that leads to
understanding along with acquisition of basic skills
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Meaningful, relevant learning experiences
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Interactive teaching and cooperative learning
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A broad range of relevant content, integrated
across traditional subject matter divisions
Traditional
instructional method of rote memorisation,
burdening the child with books and confining them to a closed
environment makes a negative impact on the child development
and behaviour and this is what the psychologist and educationist
say.
Baalyaa
Nursery and Primary School,
known as BAALYAA, is the school for early childhood
education. Modelled in Montessori and Kindergarten education
methodology, BAALYAA encourages the natural process of learning in
Children. The approach is to enhance the learning process in a
child from pictorial, symbolic, phonetics to structural
presentations." Good and sound foundation till 5th
class prepares the child to cope with any model of higher
education". Situated at #97,
Easwaran Koil
Street ,
Keelkattalai,Chennai-600117,
BAALYAA
emphasises on self directed learning in children. "FOUNDATION
LEARNING SHOULD BE MADE EASY"- this is the mission of BAALYAA
School. This is a school with a difference.
-The Hindu/Down Town
REPORTS
Annual Report: 2001-02
Annual Report: 2002-03
Annual Report: 2003-04
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