Tag: Facilitation
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Parental Fears
Parental fears are something you’ll overhear in any conversation among parents-whether it’s about careers, competition, or just keeping kids safe, parental fears are always working in the background. The other day, my son casually listed out some fears: arachnophobia (spiders), astraphobia (thunder and lightning), and phonophobia (loud sounds). “I can manage the rest,” he said,…
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Did you say Behavior Discipline? – Check these 13 Joyful Discipline
The moment any group of parents gets together, the chat somehow zooms straight into behavior discipline. It’s like there’s a secret parent script: “So, how’s your child’s behavior?” And before you know it, everyone’s sharing stories about tantrums, homework battles, or “no screen time” disaster. But, isn’t there more to discipline than just nagging about…
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Aarohi Nurtures every passion – Trading to creativity
Recently the following video made a parent asked, “Can Aarohi really support a career like trading?” our answer was a big, enthusiastic YES! Aarohi nurtures every passion from trading to creativity. First let’s understand why we might find it difficult to support unique interests of child? Treating Professions and Learning Like Separate Boxes? Most of…
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A Multicourse Learning Menu
Ever noticed how we plan our restaurant outings or everyday meals? We pick new spots, try different cuisines, and make sure to consider everyone’s choices—vegan, dessert-lover, or the “I’ll eat anything” type. Every meal is an experience. But when it comes to learning, we often serve up the same bland dish every day- same books,…
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Learning Beyond Reading and Writing
If you’re a parent who’s ever worried because your child doesn’t want to read or write, I can relate to you. My 10-year-old hates reading and writing. And as a mom, I was panicking. During his school time every parent-teacher meeting was a repeat: “Your child needs to read and write more. You need to work…
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One gift every child deserves
If you could give your child just one gift, what would it be? Unconditional love? Freedom? Maybe just being their best buddy? At Aarohi, we think the best gift ever is support. Support to discover who they are, to explore their strengths, and to grow into their unique selves. It’s about standing by them, believing in…
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Curiosity drives the child’s learning
Is your child’s education or learning driven by school or curiosity? In today’s curated lives, learning has also become highly structured. Here is a slice of the day from a family – Children often come home from school and immediately rush off to their tuition classes. While academic performance is crucial for child’s development, excelling…
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Does your child struggle to sit in a classroom and study?
In a traditional school system, many children struggle because they either find the subjects uninteresting or can’t relate to them. Each child has their own reasons. It’s a system where not every child thrives because it focuses on a fixed curriculum and exams, rather than child’s interests or natural abilities. At Aarohi, kids have the…
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How can children deal with boredom – Question from a parent
A parent raised the following concern in our WhatsApp Open Learning Community “ I’ve been feeling a bit bored lately and sometimes I just don’t feel like learning or doing anything. Has anyone else felt this way? How do you stay motivated and make learning fun, especially in Open Learning? Any tips or advice on…
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How to create a Curriculum for homeschooling / open learning
In one of the communication groups of Parents from the Aarohi community, a parent asked “What is the best curriculum for homeschooling children”? In her words “My child is saying better put me in building school as I don’t know what to do at home and get bored. What is your suggestion here” The curriculum…
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How does my child manage my learning inability?
Our Open Learning journey is full of fun, surprises, and challenges. My biggest challenge as a parent is dealing with my internal conflict. It is like walking on a forked path always. One path leads to the safe environment of the “known” and family/friends. Another path is traversing a beautiful “unknown”. My mood for the…
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Environment – Shapes a Child’s learning
Our interaction with our environment shapes us as a person and our learning abilities. We have the power to build an environment which facilitates growth and nurturing. Read further to know about what creates such stimulating environment.
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Nudge – A subtle tool for parents pursuing Open Learning
How gentle cues of our environment shape our behavior. We know them as Nudges. Let’s explore can we use Nudges to enhance open learning.
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Reflecting on Daily Investments – for parents and children
Do we need to reflect only in terms of our success or failures. Can we use reflective practice just to bring self-awareness and being more observant of ourselves. How about getting deeper insight of our day? Self-reflection opens up new windows to provide a better view of ourselves.
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Divided by Subjects, United by Knowledge
Can we break our knowledge into subjects? What happens when we imbibe the knowledge without these boundaries? Let’s explore
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Exposure-Exploration-Collaboration – Ikigai of Learning
Exposure sparks curiosity, and what ignites our interest becomes the fuel for exploration. Collaboration shapes and aligns the exploration to our learning goals.
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The gift of “I don’t know”
Children readily accept both knowing and not knowing. We, on the other hand, often prioritize knowing above all else. Yet, in this intricate world, the unknown is what truly fuels the joy of living. The uncertainty of not knowing empowers us to ask questions and challenge our existing beliefs. Why is it so difficult for…
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What did you say – Planning is Boring?
Planning dread? We all go through various phases of planning. Open learning is easier if a broad plan is in place based on learning focus. Planning can be fun and need not be a chore.
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The Art of Listening Vs Hearing – Experiential Learning
We often do not notice the profound difference between Listening & Hearing in our world filled with constant noise and distractions. Here is a snippet of Experiential Learning through Reflection For one of our Reflection Activities during Thought Club at our campus of open learning, we all shared our thoughts/ experiences/ awareness about Hearing Vs…
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Children can be great mentors, this is what Learning Mela taught us
What happens when children mentor adults? Here’s the story….. It all started with a Santa seeding the idea of Learning Mela, 18+ year olds (adults) of the community would conduct the workshops and 18- year olds (young ones) would be the mentors to adults. All parents, teens and tweens of the community got together for…
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Fear and Children
Fears often multiply more with collective anxiety that a group of people experience together with lots of questions/ fears triggered by various factors such as uncertainties, health upsets, external situations or challenges. Recently we had this amazing period of 10-12 days at Aarohi Campus where out of 6 people four were partially/ fully sick and two…
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Stop Teaching to Activate Learning
Let’s stop being Teachers to Start learning for Children. Our job is not to teach or preach but to reach.
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Homeschooling journey – by Sharmila
Being part of a journey is more important than destination. If journey is joyous and satisfactory with all its ups and down , the destination may not be very different from it.
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Reflective Questions
Reflection brings clarity. One of the way to reflect is to question. Let’s create our own question bank to reflect on various aspects. Ask question to oneself and to children. Have a conversation around such reflective questions with family and friends.
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Facilitation by observing
Observation is one of the most powerful tool to learn and to facilitate. As an observer are you a CCTV camera or a cameraman who instructs you what and how to do.
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Facilitation by Creating
To live is to create. Facilitation itself is an act of creation. Let’s explore creating some aspects of facilitation which can open kaleidoscope of possibilities for whom we facilitate and for ourselves.
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Best way to teach
Is there any one best way to live life? If no then can there be one best way to teach. Children are dynamic and they need dynamic facilitation. Breadth of facilitation will provide depth to understand a child.