Snippets:
- Successful education cannot happen in a piecemeal fashion. Taking an integrated approach can help children, with all their complexity and humanity, to develop to their full potential.
- "Whole child” approach is not only desirable but necessary to ensure that children learn well.
- Our current education system mostly focuses on a narrow objective of children’s cognitive development with an emphasis on transmitting content knowledge, often to be memorized and repeated in the same form it was received.
- Many schools today are based on antiquated designs from the early 1900s that emulate the factory model, wherein students cycle through classrooms and teachers see hundreds of students a day.
- Learning is not just Academic and rote learning. It's social, emotional, and academic.
- Children who had dropped out of high school in 25 urban, suburban, and rural communities, nearly half (47 percent) said a major reason for dropping out was that classrooms were not interesting. These young people reported being bored and disengaged from high school.
- Effective instructional strategies connect learning to students’ lives, and empower them to use their knowledge for their own and others’ benefit.
- Social-emotional skills involve developing greater awareness of oneself and others.
- The brain’s capacity develops most fully when children and youth feel emotionally and physically safe; and when they feel connected, and challenged.
- Negative emotions, such as fear of failure, anxiety, and self-doubt, reduce the capacity of the brain to process information and learn.
- Positive school climate aims to foster deeper relationships among adults and students to promote a sense of safety and belonging, which are conducive to learning.
Click to read full article from the source:
Note: Credence Learning Foundation do not own any research material or thoughts. This is an initiative to spread research on education through summarised publishing of articles and researches.