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How Boarding Schools encourages play-based learning for promoting holistic learning of every child?

March 14, 2024·4 MIN READ·Preface Institute
How Boarding Schools encourages play-based learning for promoting holistic learning of every child?

INTRODUCTION

Play-Based Lea ing is the newest approach of student centered lea ing, where lea ers are encouraged to team up with their classmates to lea concepts. Teachers in this form of lea ing are more like initiators, guiding them through the process rather than being the sole source of information. To simplify it more like lea ing through activities rather than just cramming for the sake of doing well in exams.
There are various strategies of Play-Based Lea ing is the newest approach of student centered lea ing, where lea ers are encouraged to team up with their classmates to lea concepts. Teachers in this form of lea ing are more like initiators, guiding them through the process rather than being the sole source of information. To simplify it more like lea ing through activities rather than just cramming for the sake of doing well in exams. There are various strategies of Play-Based Lea ing that can be implemented for 21st century lea ers. We have discussed some of them here: 1. Think Pair and Share - In this strategy students when asked a question they discuss it with their classmate and then settle upon an answer. 2. Strategy of Role Playing - This lea ing structure is an excellent way of engaging students wherein they are given the role of decision maker and decide about certain procedure and their results. 3. Discovering Plate Boundaries - This active lea ing strategy is basically a group discussion method that applies various aspects of cooperative lea ing. 4. Peer Review Methodology - This is another engaging active lea ing method where fellow classmate checks and review the assignments done by a student and vice-versa. 5. Group Discussion - This method of active lea ing initiates productive discussion among students for successful solutions. It develops in lea ers reasoning and rationality qualities. 6. Role playing - Not of be confused with the earlier role playing methodology. In this technique students choose a character from a specific topic and discuss how their decision affects the character and that topic of conce . 7. Using real data to solve problems - As a part of this method of active lea ing students are given real time data to analyses, utilizing which they need to solve or explore various concepts. 8. Just in Time Teaching - This method of active lea ing is targeted towards improving the lea er’s knowledge of web based questions. Here students are given a brief assignment, which they have to study, respond and answer after a short break. The students are the finally asked to engage in collaborative exercise after assignment submission. 9. Game based Lea ing - It is one of the most engaging ways of lea ing in active lea ing strategies. In this mode of lea ing characteristic of games are embedded with lea ing and has elements of competition, engagement and immediate reward. A good Game Based Lea ing (GBL) plan must have features of Achievement, Motivation and Assessment Lea ing  that can be implemented for 21st century lea ers. We have discussed some of them here:  

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