Our Pedagogy - ENKINDLE

Principles of the National Curriculum Framework for Foundational Stage

Goals of Our Pedagogy ENKINDLE

Most pre-schools teach children to read, write and recite. So does ADAMAS. But that’s just a part of the whole. With ADAMAS’s advanced curriculum, the child learns to communicate, collaborate, create and think critically.

Not just the WHATs, we encourage children to chase after the HOWs and the WHYs. They EXPLORE the world of language, and CONSTRUCT their own meanings. Here, education is the process of celebrating differences and respecting perspectives.

•Learner Directed Classrooms enable students to explore, engage and enquire.

•ENKINDLE encourages hands-on learning, spontaneous questioning and learning from peers.

OUR PEDAGOGY DEPENDS ON-The 7 Areas of Development

ENKINDLE is a framework designed to cultivate and consolidate a holistic well being in children. It takes into consideration seven areas of development.

1. Learner Centric Approach and Framework targeted to achieve specific Learning Outcomes

Learning is targeted to achieve specific Learning Outcomes.

Learning outcomes are statements that describe the knowledge or skills students should acquire by the end of a particular assignment, class, course, or program, and help students understand why that knowledge and those skills will be useful to them.

Good learning outcomes emphasize the application and integration of knowledge. Instead of focusing on coverage of material, learning outcomes articulate how students will be able to employ the material, both in the context of the class and more broadly.

2. Developing Higher Order Thinking Skills

ENKINDLE emphasises critical thinking and NOT memorizing. Each concept enables the learners to move from Remembering to Creating in the Bloom’s Taxonomy of Stages of Learning.

3. Strategies and Tools based on Experiential Learning Cycle

Every child grasps a concept through the stages of Experiential Learning.Example- Child knowing about the red Colour concept not by seeing the picture, but with a Palm Printing activity in the Colouring Book by actually experiencing the colour.

4. Whole Brain Teaching-Learning Method

Whole brain learning is a model of learning where learners learn a concept by using both parts of the brain and not just left or the right brain.

Whole-brain teaching is an instructional approach to combine left brain fact-based paradigms with right brain abstract visual cues to make learning holistic.

In the integrated brain, the functions of one hemisphere are immediately available to the other, producing a more balanced use of knowledge.

Whole-brain teaching emphasizes active learning, in which the learner makes connections that tap both hemispheres.

5. VARK Learning Styles Approach

Teaching according to the learning preferences/learning styles of the students

• VISUAL

• AURAL

• READING/WRITING

• KINAESTHETIC

We use different Teaching- Learning Strategies to customize the learning in every student according to his/her Learning Style.

Our curriculum and classroom activities are designed in such a way that every child gets to explore all the learning styles and learns best from his/ her preferred learning style.

NATIONAL EDUCATION POLICY 2020

To address the learning crisis in India the Govt. of India announced the

The National Education Policy 2020

✔Experiential Learning

✔Teacher Training Program

✔Technology Enabled Learning

✔Focus on Learning Outcomes

✔Focus on early Language, Literacy, and Numeracy

The National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 has mandated compulsory preschool education from the age of 3 onwards with guidelines on content, curriculum, and teaching standards.

THE 6 AREAS OF DEVELOPMENT of NCF

Monthly Developmental Checklist

This is the tool to track the growth and development of a child on a monthly basis based on Classroom Observation as done by the Teacher. This is totally based on a list of activities related to the seven areas of development. The child will be doing the activities in the class and based on how well he can achieve the milestones, the grades will be put up by the teachers. Initially an observation register also needs to be maintained for the same.

There are 6 culminations- on the day of PTM, the Development checklist needs to be shown and discussed with the parents especially with regard to the areas of improvement of that particular child.