A great service by an assamese fellow being to thehumanity Regards Satyen
Sent from Satyen's iPhone Begin forwarded message: From: "[email protected] [SupportAChild-Assam]" <[email protected]> Date: 10 October 2014 4:12:01 GMT+05:30 To: [email protected] Subject: [SupportAChild-Assam] Re: Happy Diwali from Re:Imagine - our Mid Year newsletter Reply-To: [email protected] We are so glad to know about the development on Imagine Learning Community. The Newsletter and the breathtaking pictures are taking the readers into the core of creativity. Surya , you are doing a great service to human kind , let’s continue to grow and evolve. Ankur da ---In [email protected], <[email protected]> wrote : Re: Imagine Learning Community " Empowering individuals for a conscious and critical participation in the society" Newsletter - October 2014 http://www.reimagineindia.org/ Hello, again! A lot has happened since we last said hello to you! It’s almost five months into the year and we have been able to build some deep personal relationships with our children and their families, create a joyful learning environment embracing the diversity that our children bring, design opportunities for student-led inquiry and overall, grow in our understanding of early-childhood education. We are now gearing up for a mid-year showcase for the parents, children and teachers to celebrate and reflect on the learning that has happened. Notes from our classroom – children learning to play the “whole game” In alignment with our focus on introducing children to the “whole game” rather than isolated pieces of a discipline, we have made some progress in creating learning experiences situated in real context of our community. A great driver of this whole-game approach has been our holistic language development program. The magic of language comes alive when children are communicating in diverse authentic settings and not just filling rote worksheets of alphabets and matching pictures as in many skill-drill classrooms. This needed a complete re-imagination of early childhood language acquisition and meant spending long hours on discussing, studying and planning for experiences and structures where children are read aloud to, they discuss the books that have been read, they apply thinking skills like sequencing the story and connecting the book to their personal experiences. They enact the stories, engage in group discussions to learn the norms of speaking in a group, building on ideas of others and asking questions to the speaker. They even create their own books of real experiences with their invented spellings. Creating a spirit of inquiry through personalised learning stations Another interesting addition to our school day has been small group/ individual learning stations where children can choose their preferred inquiry tasks based on their interests, while the teacher can observe, document children’s work and have deep, meaningful conversations with each child doing different activities. Children have access to about 6-7 different key experiences in any given week – language, math, art, craftsmanship, construction, and exploring concepts of science etc- carefully designed by the teacher based on student interests and curricular needs. Some stations have a pre-defined learning objective and some are open for the child to explore and decide what he/she wants to do. We have taken baby-steps in this direction and there is a lot more to learn and do. Aha moments from our classroom of 4 year olds! Dhanashree, during an activity involving paint, mixed yellow and red. The colour became orange-ish. Dhanashree showed the new colour to the teacher and smiled excitedly and said "Didi, look what happened to the colour!" On asking how, she replied "I put this colour (yellow) in this colour (red) and it became like this!" She has since then, mixed colours to see what h _______________________________________________ assam mailing list [email protected] http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
