This document discusses different techniques for understanding students and engaging them in learning, including:
1) Connecting students to nature through the "biophilia hypothesis" and increasing outdoor time, as animals can evoke curiosity and joy in children.
2) Using mind-mapping to understand what students are thinking.
3) Incorporating various artforms like movies, music, painting and crafts into education.
4) Telling stories, which is a powerful tool that humans remember best and can develop skills while preserving culture.
5) Developing foundational literacy and numeracy skills by grade 3 through reading, writing and building numeracy understanding.
5. Children and Animals
• “Biophilia hypothesis” by biologist
Edward O. Wilson, 1984
• Humans have an innate tendency to
associate with other living creatures
• Early childhood educators increased
outdoors time for students
• Animals evoke emotions of curiosity,
care-giving and joy in children
9. Art-forms for Education
• Movies and
animations
• Music and rhymes
• Painting
• Crafting and clay-
modeling
10. Story-telling
• Most powerful literary tool
• Humans think and remember the best in
stories
• Stories have been used to preserve
religious and cultural values
• Stories can be used to develop linguistic
skills amongst students
12. Let’s discuss
Q. What has been
your personal
experience
using art or
mind-mapping
with your
students?
13. Universal objectives of
Foundational Literacy and
Numeracy
• Meaningful reading and writing by
the time students enter grade 3
• Develop their basic understanding
and competencies related to
numeracy
