EFFECTIVE LEARNING THROUGH THE INTEGRATION OF ARTS

 Integrating arts into studies is an innovative method or not just improving the child’s art skills but also his grades in academics.

How would you react when your second-grade student says to you, “I don’t understand how planes fly and stay in the air, even when they are not like flies with the supernatural powers.” The problem of this grades students is, they do not understand the physics behind flights even though they have taken off in the plane. So here, the arts can play a major role.

It’s time to turn your Science class into art and craft class. To explain the flying planes you need to explain the various forces of flight like thrust, drag, gravity and lift and not to forget a pack of acrylic colors. It is quite big to experience the colors making their way on the paper and explaining the work of gravity than to simply be in the classroom and read all this happening in the books of Science.

Let’s start working

Research is important
You must know what and how are you going to do it. If you are working on the flight physics, start thinking and find out various ways that can be integrated into your class to make your students understand the concepts. Ask yourself a few questions:

•    Can art really describe your topic? If yes, find out how?
•    Would arts be able to cover up the content areas as per the subject requirement?
•    Would you be able to meet your students’ goals with this project?

Plan how would you conduct the art based learning
Work on the standards, learning targets, common goals, the guiding questions, and the final art product that would deepen the concepts and also explain the art content.

Testing is necessary for success
Once you have worked on papers for the model, bring it in action. If you are having fun while preparing the project and learning with it, then your students would also love to work on it. Working on a model gives you experience and also gives your student a great example for what they have been striving for.

Learn from your strengths and weaknesses
If you are working out on such projects for the first time, it would be a great experience for you. You might come up with problems; deal with them and come up with questions so that when you prepare it with your students and they have questions, you are ready with answers.

Teachers at Presidium do the same. They make sure that they know the concepts before they teach the same to their students. This is one of the reasons that Presidium is one of best nursery schools in Faridabad.

PROMOTING HEALTHY LEARNING IN CLASSROOMS

The 2017-18 session is almost here and teachers are already working on to fill up their classrooms with the tools and equipment that would help their students succeed.

An organized classroom - Check
Classroom rules posted - Check
Students’ seating arrangement - Check

Is that it? Does your organized classroom promote healthy learning? Even if you are not a health educator, physical educator or a sports teachers it is important to set up a classroom that promotes healthy learning because it affects the academic performance of the students.

In case of the young ones, it is important to focus on their eating habits. Healthy eating habits have a positive influence on their classroom behavior, attendance, self-esteem and concentration level. On the other hand, healthy and good learning opportunities can help in enhancing the regular lessons in subjects like mathematics, English and social science. It would do wonders if you can incorporate a science garden that has lots of learning and hands-on fun for the students. This can be encouraging for the students and easy for the teachers to teach them.

Here are a few ways that can make your classroom happening and inviting for the students:

Healthy and decorative reminders!

How about a bulletin board with healthy reminders? Ask your students to decorate it on their own. Ask them to write on it the benefits of eating healthy balanced diet. It takes very little time to put on the colorful posters on the wall including what you want them to write on it.

Healthy lessons are a great way!

What is your topic for today? Maybe balanced diet?

Tell your students to get at least 5 foods that are included in a healthy balanced diet. You can ask your students to fetch different foods that include Vitamin A, B, C, D, minerals and roughage. The best thing about the activity is that it is going to be very tasty at the end. 

Incorporate creative ideas!

Birthdays are a great way of igniting excitement in the students. Nursery kids are fond of birthday parties. Organize them but in a fun-learning way. Organize theme parties and ask your students to come  dressed as animals. They may not be aware of the names of various animals but through such birthday parties they can learn and have fun at the same time.

If you are wandering and still looking for nursery school admissions in Faridabad, visit to Presidium Faridabad today and feel the difference.