Power of play: Encouraging curiosity and development in early childhood

Since times are evolving, our methodology too evolves accordingly—much more so when it is still in its nascent phase. How to play has been the primary mantra of modern learning in primary schools, mapping a child's journey to school, to life, and to emotional quotient. Other schools on other continents are following suit, realizing that play isn't solely for fun—its a valuable means in which young children can learn. Starting in pre-kindergarten right up to senior kindergarten, the curriculum has been strategically planned in hopes of making it so. In environments like the Common Ground Collaborative, children are assisted in asking questions, investigating, and making sense of the world. It is an open-ended, child-centered practice which encourages curiosity and sharpens the skill required in order to learn lifelong. Play-based learning assumes a crucial importance in Elementary Education

Those formative school years are becoming the entire childhood existence of a child. Early grade school years, though, are gaining much more than books. It's a time of engaging curiosity, forming friendships, and establishing emotional development. Reading, writing, and math skills are required, but so is play. Play makes children imaginative creatures, smart, and social-conditioned characteristics that enable them to be thinking, confident, and collaborative friends.

Relevance of Inquiry-Based Model

Inquiry-based model of learning combined with play-based and conventional models of learning provokes students to pose the question, extend beyond what is included in the textbook, and this sparks life-long curiosity of learning.

The model is brought in a very initial segment of the child's school life, which establishes a solid foundation that could extend elevated levels of learning to high school years. Knowing the 'why' before the 'what' at an early age will allow a child to survive tough subjects and subjects in primary school and throughout their life. Play is also essential to social competence and emotional intelligence in children.

Play cooperatively is also how kids are instructed in good sharing, turn-taking, conflict resolution, and cooperation.

These are life skills that prepare students to be a more respectful and considerate classmate. It also gives students the minimum competence to be an empathetic global citizen. Social and emotional learning is offered in order to enable students to build resilience, empathy, and self-regulation. School counselors and teachers assist the students in learning emotional skills that enable them to cope with adversity in school and life. Why Experiential Learning Matters It is a wonderful idea to have an emphasis on experiential learning.

Discovery and play do not necessarily take place at school—spill out into the big wide world.

When kids are getting their hands dirty with learning such as field trips or project-based learning, it's more tangible and lasting. They can see how what they're learning connects to the real world, and learning becomes interesting with real interest. When they know how to apply it in life, they're not only more interested—but also more open to learning even more. Aside from inquiry-based approaches, students are also open to all kinds of specialist classes. Music, art, and PE are just a few of the core subjects in primary school. These are created to develop the vehicle of autonomous child creativity, establishing their motor skills, and on-going learning in the arts. It will not then be an off-the-question assumption that play is included in being an adult. It shapes human beings and makes the students view life realistically at an early stage in life. It makes them competent enough to recognize the difficulties of the outside world and its intricacies. Theory-based learning would never render the children vulnerable to complexity in institution protocols, industry processes, and in life. Blending best practice with theory provides the students with a strong platform of life.