Many parents, puzzled, ask, “But how will the child learn if not taught”
And the answer is simple but powerful,
“By DOING. Just like how we adults really learned: on-the-job”
Education often fails children because someone else decides what they should learn and how they should learn it.
– External agenda or expectations (Learn how to do this)
Mostly , adults in the child’s life decide what’s the right way to learn, what to learn and how to go about it. But just give it a thought, aren’t all kids different and unique? Yet why do we chartout the same plan for them to learn. Not only the plan is the same, even the scale that we measure them is also the same.
– Disappointment with Results (you’ve not done this well`)
We adults decide what the result should look like, based on our own ideas. The child is just told what to do. If they think for themselves, we often scold them or call them difficult. Then we feel disappointed in them.
– Stress from comparison and evaluation (Oh! I am not good enough)
Some standardized tests and exam decides what the child is good at or bad at. “Have you thought that maybe if we give the same child the same exam/test at a different time in a more understanding atmosphere, the score might be very different?” Just because some children could reproduce what they had studied at a particular time they are termed as intelligent and others dull? How justifiable is this?
But at Aarohi we realise that learning is natural, when built around ME
– No expectations: I would love to explore this.
Since adults in the environment don’t hold any expectations, we are able to observe the child and pay attention to what actually are the child’s strengths. This paves the way to see how we can add value to enhance their strengths.
– No hurry to reach anywhere: ‘What I did is interesting”
The freedom that this gives is the access to various possibilities. I am sure all adults agree that we all live in an interdependent world. So facilitators at Aarohi take advantage of this interdependence and can chart a path for the child into various subjects like Math, Science, language and even music through the child’s interests.
– Joy of effort : “I can do more“
As there is not much pressure from outside the child is free to dig into their own intrinsic motivation to want to learn or achieve a particular outcome. So the whole effort from start to finish becomes a source of joy. Then there’s no looking back or the need for any external motivation.
At Aarohi, children choose, they discuss, do and reflect.Mentors and others add value to their doing with interesting resources, building child’s ideas further, adding challenges and pushing them out of their comfort zone….
If you too want your child to naturally learn.Your child to push himself. Your child to dig into her own intrinsic motivation to do , explore and reach a particular outcome that they decide, along with enjoying the whole process.
Then come explore how we offer this child based education that focuses on ‘learning by doing’, ‘child’s strengths’ and ‘talents