Bharti Rao: Where Creativity Rules Inventions are Child’s Plays

The Gaudium's 50 Tales of Discovery is an outstanding book. 

Every tale tells us about new discoveries, gives us a new learning environment, positive approach and help us to experience the discoveries mentioned in the tales. These tales create and nurture an environment of curiosity and this helps us to encourage people to work hard and gives their best. Change is inevitable but we can only get opportunities when we initiate to change. This change leads to discoveries.

From all the tales that I liked the most is ‘Where Creativity Rules Inventions are Child’s Plays’. In the tale, it is mentioned how creativity helps to discover and invent new things. Every child is creative and innovative. It is the duty of the Educators to create an environment to encourage the students to give their best by using their imagination and creativity. I quote the words of Nnamdi Azikiwe that “Creativity is the soul of a true scholar.”

Imagination helps us to think the impossible and unreal. Creativity creates new ideas to fulfil and implement their imagination. Creativity leads to innovative ideas which lead to discoveries. Creativity helps us to explore and then it helps us to set up ideas. We can help the students to create and invent by starting with waste materials. Creativity motivates the students to implement their ideas and this makes their life more interesting and fun. Students need to be motivated by the educators that they should not lose hope on their failures, for failures help you to be innovative. After reading these tales it will help me to groom my students and make my teaching more innovative and interesting.

I end by quoting the words of Damian Woetzel “In schools giving students a full education, not to create great artists but about the right to have full expression and imagination and creativity, along with an acknowledgement that everybody learns differently. You try and you fail and you try again. All those skills are useful in the workplace, too.”

Bharti Rao, Vice Principal, The Fabindia School, Bali

bro@fabindiaschools.in

Kusum Dangi: CHEW ON A SUBJECT TO EXPERIENCE THE BOOM

Book from The Gaudium School

Reading 50 Tales of Discovery was very exciting. It inspired me a lot. It believes in self-discovery. We all should have an ability of self-discovery. It encourages us to become an innovator.

I was very much inspired by the discovery of an accountant Mr Walter Diemer. He invented the bubble gum. He had a penchant for experimenting with gum recipes at his rubber company. So in his experiment, I learnt that we must chew a subject. We must get deeper into the subject if we want to get success. We should always find a way to make our learning more exciting. There are many more things that we can learn from one thing. We should always try to expand our learning. These 50 tales teach us that the art of teaching in the art of assisting discovery.

 

Educator -. Kusum Dangi, The Fabindia School kdi4fab@gmail.com

The Gaudium School, Hyderabad

First of its kind Teaching & Learning Program in the Best School in Hyderabad

The Gaudium has the distinction of being the first school in Hyderabad (and therefore the best school in Hyderabad!) to introduce STEM – a hands-on, integrated learning program popular in the USA, UK and East Asia.

Broadly activities can be called as Scholastic and Co-Scholastic Activities. The Gaudium lays equal emphasis on both kinds of activities.

STEM is an acronym for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. Traditionally, these have been taught as separate subjects with each having different textbooks and practical exercises. The STEM program integrates all these subjects along with technology to provide a hands-on, holistic approach to learning. STEM combines these areas because the skills and knowledge in each discipline is essential for student success and the fields are deeply intertwined in the real world.

A proper curriculum is set for each grade where the child gets to work on at least 10 projects a year. Each lesson plan is designed to better understand the concepts taught in the class room using hands-on and experiential activities – not without reason we are the best school in Hyderabad.