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 It is about how we can interact with a child or a group of children in so many different ways so that we value add to the child, we enrich his or her life and our's too. Please note the idea here is not to find a better way of facilitating, rather explore and learn multiple ways of interacting, so that we can at any moment, decide which one to use. So when we would look into each master's work, we are going to see what alternatives are being offered, and collect them as more options in our journey with children.  The BEST way to Facilitate is the WORST way to Facilitate! A lot of teachers and parents come and ask us what is the best way to deal with xyz situation with a child, the best way to facilitate. Some talk about the ‘Aarohi' way of responding to children - indicating that there is ‘right’ or ‘best’ way of facilitating – that we (at aarohi) use, which is eluding them. Some teachers and parents even feel bad if they dealt with a child in a way contrar...

In the wake of the nation-wide lockdowns, TCS is offering schools and colleges, access to the TCS iON Digital Glass Room, a virtual learning platform, free of cost, so students can continue learning at home through this unprecedented period. The TCS iON Digital Glass Room is a mobile and web education platform for schools and colleges, that empowers educators to engage with students in real-time by sharing lessons, videos, worksheets, assignments and assessments, using interactive methods like polls, debates, quizzes, surveys and many more tools. As an add-on, the platform also provides an embedded live classroom, which simulates live classroom teaching. TCS iON Digital Glass Room is available to educational institutes of all types, irrespective of the medium of instruction, Board/university affiliation, or size. Interested schools and higher education organizations can register for the platform by going to https://learning.tcsionhub.in/hub/glass-room/ Click to open: or copy a...

*Life is a classroom. The teachers are not only adult humans — they include nature, experiences and children. The other differences between the classroom of life and regular classroom is that in the classroom of life you never graduate out of it and the tests often comes before the lessons. But the tests need not come before the lessons. We can easily learn from other’s hard lessons. And my observation is that, it is not that life does not give us easy lessons, but that we hardly take notice of the easy lessons. If you will look carefully, you will realize that there are lessons all around us. There are no new lessons. There are only old lessons happening to new people or people who forget. Those who forget the lessons of life will become life lessons for others. Wisdom cries out to be noticed. Our tragedy is that we are too busy fooling ourselves. The only qualification to learn in life’s classroom is readiness. And your readiness is proved by your willingness and humility. When you ...

Click to listen Audible has made it's content free. You can instantly click on the story and start listening. Listen to audio of kids stories, books for children of all ages.  In response to the  2020 COVID-19 pandemic , which saw people in several countries confined to their homes, Audible made a large number of children's and classic titles free to access via its website, with no sign-in required. Thanks to Audible for this initiative. Note: This is a message from CLF blog to help more and more families and kids to benefit from. Meanwhile, you can also read in this blog education-related articles.

- In his research on the cognitive development of children,  Jerome Bruner proposed three modes of representation: Enactive representation (action-based) Iconic representation (image-based) Symbolic representation (language-based) -  The role of the teacher should not be to teach information by rote learning, but instead to facilitate the learning process.  - Bruner's  work also suggests that a learner even of a very young age is capable of learning any material so long as the instruction is organized appropriately. - According to Bruner, Language is important for the increased ability to deal with abstract concepts. Brief understanding of 3 steps of learning by Bruner's theory: a. Enactive representation: Thinking is based entirely on  physical actions , and infants learn by doing, rather than by internal representation (or thinking). b. Iconic representation: Information is stored as  sensory images  (icons), usually visual ones,...

Since many kids are/will be home from school,  sharing an awesome list of ideas from a parent who homeschools. Online resources: - BrainPop - Curiosity Stream - Tynker - Outschool - Udemy - iReady - Beast Academy (Math) - Khan Academy - Creative Bug - Discovery Education YouTube Channels: - Crash Course Kids - Science Channel - SciShow Kids - National  Geographic Kids - Free School - Geography Focus - TheBrainScoop - SciShow - Kids Learning Tube - Geeek Gurl Diaries - Mike Likes Science - Science Max - SoulPancake Lots of board games, library books (and Kindle), tinkering/upcycling with household junk, etc.  Some resources to help with kids at home: *Scholastic has created a free learn-from-home site with 20+ days of learning and activities. https://classroommagazines.scholastic.com/support/learnathome.html *Pretend to travel the world..Go on a virtual tour of these 12 famous museums. https://www.travelandleisure.com/attractions/muse...

What exactly are Paradigms? A Paradigm is a mental conditioning. From the time we are conceived, we are being conditioned. How you ask? By the feelings of your Mother firstly. This is why we say Keep a Pregnant woman very happy so her child will also turn out happy :) Once you are born upto age 5 or 7yrs, you are being conditioned as you have a subconscious mind wide open or you can say you are learning by observing the people around you who are meant to be your Role Models. You start absorbing the Energy of everyone raising you, your parents, grand parents, aunts, uncles etc....For example if you are a little boy, If men in your family are always angry, you already learnt that men are supposed to be angry. You simply absorbed that Energy daily for almost 7 years! At a later date in Life, those seeds will bear their fruits by the Law of Attraction! In the same way, you learn the language or languages you speak. Your likes and dislikes, Your mannerisms, your logic, your use of ti...

آج کل والدین اور اساتذہ دونو ں بچوں کے بارے میں عموماً جو شکایت کرتے ہیں وہ یہ ہے کہ بچوں میں اب پڑھائی کا شوق نہیں ہے۔ بچے اِدھر اُدھرکی مشغولیت میں لگے رہتے ہیں اور پڑھائی پر کم توجہ دیتے ہیں۔ گویا بچوں میں پڑھائی کا شوق پیدا کرنا ایک بڑے مسئلے کی صورت میں ابھر کر سامنے آ رہا ہے جس کا سامنا بالخصوص اساتذہ اور والدین کو کرنا پڑتا ہے۔ ذیل میں ہم بچوں میں تعلیم کے لیے رغبت اور ان میں پڑھائی کا شوق پیدا کرنے کی کچھ تجاویز قارئین کی خدمت میں پیش کر رہے ہیں۔ اگر کسی انسان کو اس کے اختیار اور مرضی کو دبائیں گے تو اس کی خودی، شوق اور فکری نشوونما بری طرح متاثر ہو گی۔ اس لیےشوق اور اختیار کے بغیر بہترین کتابیں، اچھے اساتذہ اور اعلیٰ معیار کے اداروں کی چمک بھی بچے کو پڑھنے اور کام کرنے پر آمادہ نہیں کر سکتی۔ جس طرح بھوک، پیاس انسان کا فطری داعیہ ہے اسی طرح بھی شوق ایک فطری داعیہ ہے۔ انسان میں شوق کا داعیہ ودیعت بھی کیا گیا ہے اور وہ خارجی فطرت سے بھی متاثر ہوتا ہے۔ بچہ صرف ذہانت اور استعداد کی بنیاد پر کامیاب نہیں ہو سکتا جب تک اس کے اندر دل چسپی، اشتیاق اور رغبت کی دولت نہ ہو۔ استاد بچو...

یونان اور روم میں نظامِ تعلیم ڈاکٹر عرفان حبیب مغربی تعلیم کی تاریخ کا آغاز حضرت عیسیٰؑ سے سیکڑوں برس پہلے، یونانی قوم کی تعلیمی سرگرمیوں سے ہوتا ہے۔ اس تاریخ میں بیسویں صدی کی شروعات تک ایک تسلسل پایا جاتا ہے۔ ابتدائی دور میں یونانی شہری ریاستوں میں رہتے تھے۔ شروع ہی سے ان کے یہاں تعلیم کو بڑی اہمیت دی جاتی تھی۔ اچھے شہری تیار کرنے کے لیے تعلیم ضروری تھی۔ یہ ریاستیں دشمنوں میں گھری ہوئی تھیں اور اکثر اندرونی خطروں کا بھی سامنا کرنا ہوتا تھا۔ اس لیے شہریوں کی اس طرح سے تربیت ضروری تھی کہ وہ اندرونی اور بیرونی خطروں کا اچھی طرح مقابلہ کر سکیں۔ اس یونانی سماج کی بنیاد، غلامی کے نظام پر تھی جس میں غلاموں کی تعداد آزاد شہریوں سے کہیں زیادہ تھی۔ تجارت اور ہاتھ سے کام کرنے کو معیوب سمجھا جاتا تھا اور یہ کام غلاموں سے لیے جاتے تھے، اس لیے شہریوں کو کوئی ٹیکنیکل تعلیم حاصل کرنے کی ضرورت نہیں تھی۔ شہری ریاستیں کئی باتوں میں ایک دوسرے سے مختلف تھیں اور اس لیے ان کے تعلیم کے مقاصد بھی جدا جدا تھے مثلاً سپارٹا اور ایتھنز کے تعلیمی نظام بالکل الگ الگ تھے۔ سپارٹا کے شہری اپنے علاقے می...

There is been a clear need for polished skills and expertise in many professions. There are many professions which were the sub-fields, but as per 21st century needs they have grown up to be an independent field on its own. One such field is ECE- Early Childhood Education. Currently this field has contributed a lot towards the understanding of child and it's growth and development. These professionals usually work as preschool teachers, mentors, curriculum designers, program managers etc. The usual age group of children at ECE environment is 0 - 8 years. As this age group is looked after by female predominantly from ages, today as a result this field has more female working than male. It is very important that even male contribute to this field, by doing a graduation in ECE, research, facilitation, program design, advocacy etc. In a tedx video shared below, a male ECE professional who has studied ECE and working in ECE is sharing his experience in the field of ECE and it...