Dear Mr. Agarwal,
This refers to your recommendations for pre-primary education, submitted to Mr. Ashok Ganguly. We share your concern that early years of childhood and children’s first experiences with teaching and learning are crucial for success later on.
- Your recommendation that pre-primary school year should “only be play way and that children should not be subjected to any formal way of learning” reads a bit too simplistic. I can well imagine this is not meant to be that black & white. Call it play way or formal, our professional experience tells us, every teacher interprets play way and formal to the best of her own hear-say and experience having seen or read some where. Barring a few exceptions, training for teachers in more cases than not, is not up to the mark for future India.
- The idea of pre-primary school year is to prepare kids for the on-going school. Children should acquire the natural fear-free ease and curiosity to want to got to school of learning. Children need to be exposed to managing themselves and learning to learn and … Some degree of formal teaching and learning is reqiuired; I agree with you, it shold be done differently than as we it being done,mostly, at present.
- I am attaching a pdf file outlining our proprietary 360* Teaching & Learning Concept. This was developed by us from our base in Chandigarh, during which time from 1997 to 2004, we were also training teachers at schools and in B.Ed college and we are now offereing this as a training module in German universities.
With best wishes,
Kim J. Singh
Chairman & CEO
BS Creative Learning
India and Germany