Child Holistic Development: Happy & Healthy Environment
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Added on 2021-06-18
Child Holistic Development: Happy & Healthy Environment
Added on 2021-06-18
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PGCE International: Bangalore 1 CohortXX4PI5: Contexts Marking tutor: Anna Emerson Word Count: 3033ASSIGNMENTNIKITHA PARAMESH4320317AN IDEAL CLASSROOM IN AN IDEAL SCHOOL: ‘A happy and healthy environment for the holistic development of the child’
ContentsContents...........................................................................................................................................1Introduction......................................................................................................................................2Curriculum.......................................................................................................................................2Physical Activities...........................................................................................................................4Flow.................................................................................................................................................5Child- Centered Classroom..............................................................................................................7Student- Centered Teaching............................................................................................................8Positive Unintended Hidden Curriculum.........................................................................................9Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................9References......................................................................................................................................11
IntroductionFor a happy and healthy environment, I believe student’s happiness stands first in school. Schools are the best place for enhancing the natural creativity of children as they enter a development phase once they start going to school. When they are happy and enjoy going to school, they are able to accept the knowledge being provided by the school and using it in the right spirit. An ideal school should provide enough options for sports and different exercises to the students for making them happy and positive. Moreover, an ideal classroom should provide good amount of ventilation, open space, light and comfortable seating arrangements to the students. Moreover, the classrooms need to be student and user friendly for the purpose of achieving the objective of holistic development of child. The school curriculum also plays an important role in making the place happy and energetic. Learning is enhanced when students are free from undue stress and pressure and are secure, safe and comfortable at school. Health of the students is of equal importance for performing in a school. In my ideal school, study programme is well balanced towards physical activities and concept of flow thereby making it a child centric school. An ideal classroom in my ideal school will have all these characteristics which will subsequently result in the holistic development of the child. CurriculumI agree with Braslavsky who has defined curriculum as an agreement among educational professionals, communities and the State regarding what learners should take on throughout particular phases of their lives (Coggle, 2018). In my ideal school, curriculum will play a centrallyvitalpartinplanningthe student-centricenvironment and will provide a way for carrying on the process.
Schooling in India starts from the age of 3. This is the period when proper attention is required tobe paid towards the development of child (Pednekar, 2017). The curriculum of the ideal school considers the student as the center of interest. It provides the children a freedom to develop naturally. Teacher acts as a guide to students. All the needs of the life of children are met by this curriculum by establishing a co-operation between home and school. The student centric curriculum considers the child as a plant, the school as garden and teacher as a gardener. Our ideal school gives enough attention to the growth and development of a child in natural atmosphere. Several options are provided to the students in the form of special activities, exploratory courses and a variety of other experiences in accordance with the knowledge of learner characteristics. The curriculum is based on the fact that when a child will gain different experiences in life, he will be more eager to learn (Bautista, Ng, Munez & Bull, 2016). The environment works for the purpose of building safe learning spaces for the children. The environment will further attract only those teachers who are adequately knowledgeable and who care regarding the learning of students. The teachers of an ideal school are required to adapt theirinstruction for meeting the needs of the learners (Equinox Parent School Council, 2018).The curriculum should further take into consideration the ongoing trends in the society as these children are going to be the future of the society. The curriculum will further aim to acknowledge the importance of knowledge age while providing the children with the skills required for becoming successful (Parkay, Anctil & Hass, 2014). It further aims to contribute towards the happiness of children by allowing them to feel complete within their role in the society. Moreover, my ideal school will aim to provide the children with self- awareness for making the selection of their preferred activities and the commitment and enthusiasm required for pursuing them wholeheartedly. Such curriculum will consider the fact that the children needs to learn about their own selves. Therefore, the curriculum will significantly involve learning self- esteem and self- respect. Moreover, children also require learning about their relationships with other people (Simmons, Graham & Thomas, 2015). For this, the focus should be emotional literacy and social literacy.
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