Sparkling Smiles and Bright Minds: The Joy of Teaching Nursery Kids
BY ADMIN PUBLISHED February 21, 2024, UPDATED February 26, 2024
The little bundle of joys, the future of our nations, the young learners need extra care in the early years of education. As we re-examine early childhood education at Delhi Public School Ghaziabad Society, we propose a paradigm shift in promoting meaningful learning. In our institutions, our educators embrace the core values of early education. These values emphasise the importance of play, friendship, self-care, independence, problem-solving, and self-regulation.
The Intrinsic Relationship Between Learning and Childhood
We understand that the essence of childhood is the unrestrained joy of each discovery and adventure at DPSG. Children's awe, either admiring worms after a rainstorm or jumping in puddles, expresses the essence of their joy. Teachers know they are responsible for fostering children's explorations of their humanity. This joyful learning becomes a way to discover feelings ranging from loneliness to amazement and eagerness to reflection.
The Spectrum of Joyful Learning
The curriculum for nursery kids often includes only play-based education. This helps them to create a foundation for critical thinking, creativity, social skills, and cooperation. In light of the 21st-century advancement and technology at DPSG, the importance of joyful learning is emphasised.
Joyful Learning in Action: Insights from Brain Studies
There is a strong relationship between joy and good learning in neuroscience. The process of learning happens best when pleasure is mixed with learning. DPSG provides environments that integrate joy, decrease the boredom of education, reduce stress, and help develop a growth mindset. Joyful learners personify children who celebrate education and do not think much about the results, rather defying the traditional education mindset. DPSG encourages this kind of growth in the minds of the kids
Overcoming the Barriers
The quest for happy learning in the DPSG is full of challenges. Children's explorations often involve physical movement and vitality that might be unsettling to adults unaccustomed to such an approach. Nevertheless, within the walls of DPSG, we embrace the chaos that usually follows the joyful learning experience. Embracing chaos as a precursor to creativity is our pledge to offer real learning engagement for our children.
Promoting Joyous Learnings at DPSG
To start with, DPSG's journey towards joyful learning rests on the foundational pillars of passion, purpose, and play. Weaved intentionally with other elements, joy becomes inseparable to learning. There are some ways mentioned below to promote this kind of environment:
Building Strong Positive Relationships
Shared humour and emotional warmth reverberate through the corridors of DPSG, creating bonds upon which the joy of learning is found. These connections provide an intimacy that allows the minds of the nursery kids to synchronise. This is a starting point for collaborative learning and mutual understanding.
Promoting A Growth Mindset In Nursery Kids
Praise is an ode to the effort, not to the achievement in DPSG's classrooms. It provides no sanctuary for stereotypes and labels, enabling each child to grow to their potential. This is what makes the learning journey about effort and resilience.
Embracing the Outdoors
The outdoors is a transformative agent for joyful learning for the nursery kids. The environment becomes a broad landscape with visions, sounds, feelings, and odours that increase the joyfulness of being in the experience of learning.
Promoting Physical Activity
At DPSG, physical activity is not just part of learning; it is something one enjoys in itself. We believe that rough and tumble-play is a way to express joy, fun, and laughter within the movement areas in the indoor classroom.
Cultivating Pleasure in Learning
DPSG makes children happy by letting them choose and achieve success. Learning journeys are illustrated in scrapbooks, which becomes a celebratory way of assessment, creating a shared space for parents, children and educators to experience the fun in learning.
Nurturing Expertise
DPSG teachers motivate children to be experts, aware of the great happiness that comes from deep thinking. Children discover joy in their education when learning is aligned with individual interests, resulting in insights, passion, focus, and playful discovery.
Embracing Creative and Expressive Arts
The creative arts in the school include singing, dancing, painting, and drawing – they are not just extracurricular; they are part of the learning process. These mediums allow the kids to present ideas, events, and emotions, which results in joy and the creation of symbols necessary for the development of thinking.
Cherishing the Power of Stories
The experiences at DPSG are woven through narrative, both told and read stories. In stories, we go back to relive and talk about shared experiences that make learning joyful and worth remembering.
Also Read: How to Discipline Your Child: Tips and Advice for the Parents
Conclusion
Teaching often includes purpose, passion, and joy. Learning is reshaped, small successes are celebrated, and the joy in childhood is connected to the joy in teaching as they all form a harmonious atmosphere for teaching as an art of brightening minds and sparking smiles. At DPSG Palam Vihar, we are the torchbearers, lighting the way for the youngest learners to blossom, discover, and revel in the joy of learning.
