Samsidh Interview
- How do you ensure proper planning and implementation of curriculum?
- Planning process should always be meaningful, manageable and useful.
- Teamwork is important as it will help develop a sense of ownership as everyone is contributing to the planning process.
- Proper planning ensures a consistent problem solving approach to a given task.
- Gathering of teaching resources is a shared responsibility and it ensures every member of the team is familiar with all aspects of planning the curriculum.
- While planning the curriculum, it is important to assess each child’s ability, to relate to their experiences and interests, and to meet their developmental needs.
- Complete holistic development of a child requires that cognitive, social, physical, and emotional aspects are taken into consideration during the planning process.
- The facilitators can then collate the entire planning process and document the lesson plan for each month.
- This will ensure smooth implementation of the curriculum on a daily basis.
- How is Samsidh different from any of the other schools you have worked with?
At Samsidh:
- Extensive planning goes behind each and every activity. Each day is well planned and in advance.
- Execution of the plan is flexible, keeping in mind the developmental needs and the learning style of each child. This approach eliminates the need for imposing a micro schedule on the student.
- Opportunity to present our ideas encourages and motivates us to remain current and up-to-date with the latest trends in learning and technology and is also helpful from the point of view of our own growth as individuals and career wise.
- A friendly and empathetic work culture encourages us to take up challenging tasks and assignments and excel at them.
- How do teachers keep abreast of professional development at school?
- At Samsidh, we realize that keeping abreast of latest technology and learning trends is very important as newer trends emerge faster than it is possible to keep pace with. Therefore, we take a keen interest in providing timely and relevant training to our teaching staff.
- At Samsidh, we pay close attention to how we train and support both new and experienced teachers. This benefits both groups, as there is a free flow of ideas.
- How do you ensure cognitive development is initiated from an early age?
- Why, what, how, when, and where are known as the wh-questions. Children are inquisitive by nature and tend to ask questions constantly. We as adults answer the questions some of the times and ignore when questions are difficult. But it is important to realize these are not trivial questions but synapses happening in a child’s brain which leads to the cognitive development in a child.
- To foster the synapses in the right direction, we provide an enriching environment that stimulates the ability to think in concrete ways such as how to combine, separate, order and transform things.
- Young children also see patterns in objects and events happening around them and organize those patterns and events to explain to others. When we allow children to repeatedly perform the logical activities, they try and come with various outcomes each time, thus strengthening the cognitive ability in them.
- How much do you rely on experience-based learning at pre-primary level?
- Every child is capable of learning and should enjoy the basic and essential learning experience. In this regard, we provide children with high quality and integrated pre-primary education that focuses highly on experiential learning.
- Children’s development and learning are greatly influenced by the people and things they encounter during the learning process.
- Children are active learners who are curious and interested in exploration. They perform best when they are given proper resources and right guidance.
- Children learn well when learning experiences match their development through life experiences, sensory stimulation, interesting activities, and most importantly through playing.
- What should be the focus of education for pre-primary children?
- The pre-primary programs should focus on who the children are, and support and encourage them to reach their full potential.
- Schools, in partnership with parents, have a vital role to play in developing social competence of children by providing the tools and knowledge they will need in order to play a constructive role as citizens in the future.
- But most importantly, the facilitators should first strive to establish an emotional rapport with children. Once a positive emotional rapport is formed, it is capable of creating magic in the classroom and help the facilitators with the nurturing by creating a warm and responsive environment. To sum up, when intelligence quotient is replaced with emotional quotient children become more receptive to relating to others and begin to take pleasure in learning new skills.
- Where do you see Samsidh 5 years from now?
In five years from now, I would like to see
- Samsidh as the most talked about school in Bangalore for the methodology used to prepare the children for their future life.
- Samsidh being hailed for imparting its curriculum in a fashion that develops curiosity, interest and out of the box thinking in its students.
- Samsidh students are groomed in a way that encourages them to develop a thirst for knowledge.
- Samsidh students are recognised for their ability to take on the world and overcome challenges boldly.
- Samsidh students are instantly recognisable, both for their respect for core human values, and for the knowledge and skills they possess.