What makes learning a better experience?

It is easier to identify a quality learning experience. However, it's not the same when it comes to deconstructing the factors that lead to a greater learning experience! The process of deconstruction is what makes the process more yearning. It allows a learner to push further his comfort zone and develop his own standard and methodology for self-learning.

One of the fundamental rights in any country—the right of education is an important right for all. It ensures all individuals get equal opportunities to sustain in their lives. Education, no matter, improve the quality of living and adds essence to livelihood. This is not all. Quality education is the need of the hour—quality education promotes an individual to do better in life. Deconstructing patterns requires deep dedication, time, and analytical skills. However, once you have deconstructed the pattern once, you can use the same to understand new information, every single time. 

Below are the primary points that highlight the importance of quality learning:

1. Adds value to the learner

Learning something new adds up to the knowledge bank of the learner. This means the individual is competent in doing something they couldn’t before. The entire process of learning is purposeful and puts the needs of the learner before everything else.

2. Focuses on being effective first

The learning experience isn’t great if he fails to bring in the effectiveness of the learner. It is important for individuals to be interactive and visually rich, but these all aspects should be used to enrich the individual’s learning.

3. Promotes further learning

Learning shouldn’t be done just for the sake of passing an examination. This approach will fail to take individuals to better places in their lives. A quality learning experience has the potential to inspire individuals’ to become lifelong learners, encouraging them to pursue education beyond their syllabus and curriculum. 

According to the Founder at Treehouse, Rajesh Bhatia, “learning can be made a better experience by providing learners with quality education and helping them to decode their pattern of learning to make the process seamless every time they have to learn something new.”

Mindfulness: An art to adapt from early childhood

Merriam-Webster defines mindfulness as the practice of maintaining a nonjudgmental state of heightened or complete awareness of one's thoughts, emotions, or experiences on a moment-to-moment basis. In other words, it simply means, living in the moment.

Research suggests that mindfulness if practiced from early life, can bring success and development in later life. This has made learning mindfulness an important art to learn in early life. It has been learned across the world for centuries, however, it wasn't integrated with early education until recently. This approach equips youth with crucial tools, empowering them to behave responsibly and act sensibly. A unique aspect that sets this particular art different from others is that the learning doesn't bind itself to classroom walls. It can be learned almost everywhere and almost at any time. Mindfulness empowers children with excellent self-regulation skills, improved attention to details, increased well-being and resilience to odd situations, as well as promotes kindness and compassion for self and people around.

Teachers can play an instrumental role when it comes to encouraging raw minds to adopt good habits. Therefore, they should put the active effort into conditioning young minds towards adopting mindfulness. Teachers can integrate mindfulness into a child's daily activities in his environment that can help him taking charge of his behavior and actions, increase his focus and engagement, and promote a feeling of ownership and empowerment in him. The idea of integrating mindfulness in a child means to make it second nature of the child, a part of his personality.

The tools used to gain mindfulness aren’t expensive, however, the result you get is worth million dollars. Mindfulness support healthy and quality relationship, be it child to child or child to adult relationships. Read along to know a few techniques that can help your child to adopt mindfulness:

1. Deep Breaths - How do you feel under stress and pressure? Your breathing gets shallow, doesn’t it? How do you react to it? By taking deep breaths! Children need to learn the same technique to cope up with stress. This is the reason why teachers need to teach children the technique of deep breathing whenever they feel stressed about something. With consistent practice, children will be able to PAUSE, BREATHE, CALM, and THINK better when frustrated.

2. Active Listening - Unlike visual representation, listening to sounds need active effort. As simple as it sounds, it takes a great deal of effort from a child to gain active learning skills. However, it is very crucial to gain control over thoughts and gain mindfulness about his environment. By training a child to listen with intent, he will naturally be calm, engage in peaceful listening, and gain awareness about his surroundings.

3. The Glitter Jar - It is easier to hold children’s attention with visual tools. For instance, a glitter jar, ask a child under stress to hold a jar filled with water and glitter. Now ask him to shake it. Ask him what he sees? Apparently, he will say the glitters are moving in random directions. Now ask him to stop shaking the jar, as the glitters start settling down the child will have a sense of stability. This method use sensor (glitters) to calm down the child’s mind. And condition him to be aware of his thoughts and the environment.

According to Tree House founder, Rajesh Bhatia, “Conditioning young minds to be more aware of their surroundings help them to control their thoughts and take charge of their actions. This encourages children to gain stability in their lives.”

ACTIVATE YOUR KIDS EMPIRICAL THINKING THIS SUMMER

It is that time of the year, where the teachers constantly think about the long vacation which will eventually lead to the forgotten lessons by the students. Meanwhile, the parents are engaged in preparing a vacation to involve their kids in physically active and mentally empirical activities during the long summer days. Pledge this year to give them the most enthusiastic summer holiday with innumerable amusement and a legit utilization of holiday by keeping their mind working all day. To assist the parents in this vacation with a challenge of transforming this vacation into legit productive, here are the 5 most crucial strategical technique to help your kid progress in the best way possible with maintaining the moral discipline and etiquette. 

1. Invite your kid to the kitchen and teach them how to cook and the entire anatomy of cooking: The measurement, safety, ingredients and of course the taste. Also, acknowledge them about the cooking paradigm of different ere like Mughals, postcolonial, a pre-colonial and ancient method of cooking. Take out your cooking book from the shelf and introduce them to the atmosphere of the kitchen in the most amusing way possible. Make sure you are not making this activity monotonous.

2. It is often more preferable to go for a walk rather than going for a drive. Through your light walk, you can introduce your kids to the apt reality with a practical illustration. For instance, about light, speed, and nature. It will not only enhance the diameter of your kid analytical thinking but will comprehend the idea of life and living.

3. Staple together pieces of plain paper or use a notebook to encourage your child to make a cartoon flip book. Kids draw a chain of cartoons and simulate motion as they "flip" through the pages. (Note that the first image in the series must be at the bottom of the stack of pages, and the illustrations should progress from bottom to top.) Also, sketching or drawing stimulates one idea of their understanding for the family. The similar thing which was pictured in a blockbuster movie Taare Zameen Par, where the protagonist depicted his separation from the family in his scrapbook. 

4. Go for a family picnic near your home and also invite your kid's mate for the enjoyment purpose. Ask your kid to organize the entire trip by himself or herself. This will give them an idea of managerial capability. With managing finance and also picnic activity, the kid will develop the learning of arithmetic calculations and also social behavior. 

5. Kids rarely have the opportunity to design their rooms. Now, involve them in the room renovation. Ask them the fundamental question that what else you do apart of sleeping in the room. If your kid is a video game enthusiast, arrange your room according to that. Else, the room must define whose room is this. When your kid approaches his personal interest it results in wonders an also it depicts the idea of his/her personality.

According to Treehouse MD Rajesh Bhatia, “The ample time must be utilized completely, parents must take the concrete and entertaining steps to engage their kids to develop empirical thinking.”

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