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N. Raghuraman, Management Guru
Imagine, if a school said that it has made ‘Chidiya Ud’ (the same Indian game we all used to play indoors) a part of its curriculum in its Kindergarten classes, because this game helps in improving mental agility and decision making. Develops capabilities, apart from this it also gives knowledge about which things fly and which do not, and also it improves leadership qualities in them, so what would you think?
Researchers in California found that most teachers were spending class time doing “didactic instruction,” meaning giving students information and instructions rather than encouraging independent thinking and play. They may not have ‘Chidiya Ud’, but they will have a game equal to it.
They feel that, instead of learning letters and numbers from the teacher standing at the front of the class, young children should run around the class, play games and find materials to learn the same numbers and letters in imaginative ways. Like watching a math lesson on simple addition for the mind of a five year old.
The teacher takes the children to the garden with eight colorful toy bears and tells them that these bears are going for a walk and are joined by two more bears from the next building. Later the teacher asks, how many bears went for a walk? Surely this will be different from the number written on the worksheet.
Deborah Stipek, professor of education at Stanford University, believes that America is not actually preparing teachers to teach young children. That’s why California made a historic expansion in public education in 2020, adding a new grade called ‘TK,’ which stands for ‘Transitional Kindergarten,’ where teachers are trained to understand how a four-year-old child’s brain How to learn and teach everything they need to teach kids in the game.
Starting next year, California will ensure that all elementary school teachers in ‘vaccine’ classrooms are properly trained with scheduled classes on early childhood education. To focus academically in ‘TK’ the teacher can choose a theme, such as trees, where students can learn the names of different trees from picture books (literacy), see them in nature (science), different leaves. Can count and compare (mathematics, science) and then make pictures (art) of them.
Not surprisingly, most parents and teachers now want schools to be fun-filled places for children and expect the new play-based learning system to be mandatory till Class 3.
Sensing this opportunity, California’s San Jose State University has become the first institution to launch a credential for preschool through third grade, with classes beginning in September offering 20 students who will be the ‘vaccine’ teachers of the future. . There are topics like “emotional development,” which is a major focus of this curriculum and a major focus of most preschool programs.
They are taught to handle children in such situations when something happens where they do not know the reaction of children. For example, when a child takes a toy out of someone’s hand, it can come as a shock to them.
I completely agree with him because today’s toys can be tomorrow’s promotion at the corporate level. Tomorrow, when it comes to sharing cubicles in the office, the behavior of these only children who grew up with pride may be an issue. In corporate, I see more than half of the issues being more emotional than intellectual.
The bottom line is that If our schools are capable enough to handle the emotional intelligence of children, then we don’t need to change ‘KG’ to ‘TK’, but if there is anything good in doing so, then this idea is here for a better future. There is nothing wrong in implementing it.