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How rhymes and poems can help children learn in primary schools

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Primary school forms a very important stage of a child's development.  As such it is important that teachers and parents do all they can to make sure that their children get the best out of this time so that they can develop to their full potential. One way that this can be encouraged is through using primary S chool rhymes as teaching resources. Songs for children can have a variety of benefits and different ones can help with different things. Some may be a bit of fun and encourage participation while others can role as an active memory support to help children retain information or learn by association. Benefits of primary school rhymes and poems Songs for kids carry a wide range of benefits. They can help improve: Memory - learning songs contextualises things, so teaching a particular subject or fact through primary school songs is a great way to help children learn and remember things. Actively engaging children to sing about certain a topic is likely to ...

Importance of art and craft for kids in school curriculum

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All children are artists, while some build up their skills to great extents others simply get past the first level. Hence it is all up to parents and teachers to encourage their children towards art. As in the words of Albert Einstein, "Imagination is more important than knowledge, for knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world." The different kids craft ideas must be essentially included in the School Curriculum as it helps the children to explore and create without worrying about the ended product. Thus with the help of the various craft ideas the children, are able to discover, experiment, make mistakes and learn from them. They are also able to try new ideas on their own which gives them vast self confident. These crafty ideas also let the children enjoy the excitement of the creative processes. In fact, there is no right way or wrong way for the projects to turn out when it comes to the kids; it is just the enjoyable pleasant process of...

Character education for kids in School

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Many teachers began adapting a new technique of teaching called character education. This helps give confidence to a happy young child that grows into a fully efficient and capable adult. Many people feel that we need to begin providing our children an education that helps them build skills, life strategies and character that help them grow into completely proficient, independent citizens. Many schools try to include character education into the regular curriculum. The responsibility, fairness, trustworthiness, respect, caring for others, and citizenship should be included in the character education. Responsible behaviours, empathy and faithfulness are fundamental to these qualities. Character is a must for society and our culture to continue. It plays a very important role in the development of healthy self esteem. Young children need to be able to persist in the face of difficulty, solve problems, behave respectfully and respond properly to situations in order to become f...

How to develop effective study skills in students

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Effective study skills decide a student's success in his school life. If the student knows how to balance his / her time for studies, extracurricular activities, personal life and play, then the student will not have difficulty in passing the school stage, especially the stressful high school life. However, most high school students, like most teenagers or young ones, are still less focused and study skills are yet to be cultivated in them. With help from parents and teachers, they can build up effective school study skills that they can use not only during their high school or college years, but after school when the time comes for them to value time and organization in life. Below are some effective high school study skills that a student can practice and develop over time. In order for a student to have a good school study skills, he needs to focus first. You can do this by making a timetable of the things that you need to study on a day to day basis. Get a pen and pape...

The role of a teacher in society

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The role of a teacher in society is both important and valuable. It has far-reaching influence on the society the teacher lives in and no other personality can have an authority more profound than that of a teacher. Students are deeply affected by the teacher's love and affection, the character, the aptitude, and the moral commitment. A popular teacher becomes a model for their students. The students try to follow their teacher in his/her manners, costumes, protocol, style of conversation and the get up. The teacher is their ideal. A good teacher can lead them anywhere. During their early education, the students tend to determine their aims in life and their future plans, in discussion with their teachers. Therefore, a good and visionary teacher can play a major role in making the future of their students while as a corrupt teacher can only harm their students much more seriously than a class of corrupt and perverted judiciary, army, police, bureaucracy, politicians or tech...