(In picture: Jayanthi Kannan, Founder, D.K.'s Learning Centre)
Story telling can be used to teach concepts
too. Once we attempted to teach afforestation and deforestation to class 4
students. We planned to have a puppet show. We had characters like monkey, elephant,
birds and a human. Students of higher classes helped us make these puppets.
We had the puppet show in the morning
assembly. The tiny tots of our school thought something was happening behind
the screen. They came running and were jumping with joy.
The difference in intonation and voice change
created a lot of interest and involvement among children. When we went back to
class and when there was discussion in the classroom there was 100 percent
involvement.
We also use stories to teach phonetics, concepts
in geography, etc. This is a small one line story to remember the names of
planet: madam viji Eats
mangoes and jhelabis sitting under a neem tree.
We always see teaching as an art. We came
to a realization that evolving in the ways of teaching is very important for a
teacher. We take it as a challenge to come up with innovative ideas promoting a
child’s interest and involvement in his/ her academics. In fact compromising on
teaching is compromising of quality future generation. Teaching should not be clichéd
but contemporary.
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