08.07.10
Panel: Ayisha, Dharma and Meena
Panel: Ayisha, Dharma and Meena
- Workshops should be age appropriate
- Tools (Mind Maps)
- KWL Charts (What you know?, What you want to know?, What you want to learn? )
- Narrow down
- Meet the teachers and Observe present ways of teaching in class.
- Research and Reading, Howard Gardner, Child development and integrated learning and integrated teaching.
- The kit should be fun, independent and meaningful fun
- The lack of linguistic activity. The kit should be bilingual so that it can that anyone can pick it up and the kit should also be intelligent and age appropriate and should suit all levels of understanding.
- Augustus Baol – Theatre of the obressed.
- Sometimes we tend to over educate a child with our own impositions of learning and what they need to learn. Ask the child how he would design his own curriculum or activities.
- Children have there own ways of learning and figuring out things. They play all these role playing activities with each other such as “Ghar Ghar” but they need to do this with their subjects also.
- Meet people that are more experienced in this field that you get a deeper understanding of the work that is going on.
- Meet the theatre person of the school and plan .
- Plan each session separately as you wont know what will come out of the first session.
- Be open enough that in such a small time you wont be able to make so much change.
- Be open to criticism of your system.
02.08.10
Dharma Kanan
- After discussing what I had achieved and my next plan these are the few things we discussed:
- There should be controlled structure, they should learn to break out of structured and spoon-fed learning (There is no right and wrong)
- Encourage them to ask strange questions within a limited framework, go bizarre.
- Transforming classroom is one exercise I am going to d with them. ( Research: Display and design, Bulletin board).
- Take your session open air, it will a different experience for the kids and you will get different results.
- Questionnaire (Process for the user research in the market for the product)
- Design an Open ended Questionnaire. The answers should just not be yes or no. For children you might have to introduce an external source like drawing to get results.
- Every activity should have a motive and a objective. It just shouldn’t be done for the sake of having an activity.
- Larger than life experience is a good idea. Children should be given to draw large and big with fat crayons, this helps with their hand and eye coordination.
- Use al their senses, ask them to observe sounds and hen create something.
- Everything that the child does should be displayed. There is no good or bad and no competition.
- Allow them to work freely but within a certain framework within a given context.
- Activities should be age appropriate, within context and relevant to my motive or objective.
- Change the perspective of the school to see arts education or theater as an extra curricular activity. It is a co-curricular activity within the curriculum of the school and should not be seen as something outside.
- Ask them what-iff questions. (You have to prod and poke them )
