The early childhood education during the formative years of a child are important for the development of a child. The child’s overall development and his progress into a functioning and intelligent individual depends on how well the child is groomed and taught in his early years. A child in his early years is like wet, impressionable earth and has to be moulded properly if we want proper upbringing and a golden future for him. In this developmental stage, the child is developing his cognitive abilities, speech, audio and visual skills. While the chid is growing it is taking in knowledge from different sources and learning to interact with his surroundings and people around him.
His senses like speech, vision, hearing power, touch and movements help him in understanding and remembering things and phenomena around him. During the early years, when a child’s brain is like a plain canvas and has not been reinforced with knowledge, it is only through senses that they learn about their surroundings. The senses therefore, play an important part in the development of his cognitive, problem solving, social and emotional skills. They understand how to react to their surroundings through their senses. This is because, it is only through the senses that the brain registers any incidents and also triggers any stimulus and the subsequent reaction of the kid to it.
After developing reaction abilities, multiple senses like speech, audio, visual and touch are all responsible for developing his speech and language abilities by helping him express his feelings and thoughts. A kid’s fine motor and gross motor skills also develop due to their interactions with their environment and kids develop their motor reflexes and muscle memory during early phases of their lives.
It is therefore understood that senses have an important role to play in the child’s development and helps him in imbibing new skills. This is why multisensory learning is preferred in leading preschools of India like SAI Angan. At SAI Angan we understand that every child has a different set of learning needs and might need help while learning the basic skills needed in an early age. Learning at an early age is different from other stages of a student’s life and requires a different approach that includes experiential learning and multisensory approach to teaching. SAI Angan believes in implementing innovative and new techniques of teaching and learning inside the classroom so that learning strategies are interactive and effective. At SAI Angan, a child learns 21st century skills in a balanced peer group under the guidance of learned and experienced teacher who know how to teach and mould small kids from the start of their learning path.
As a learning method, multisensory learning is encouraged because it improves their basic skills that help them learn in their future education career and also improves their memory and reflexes. Multisensory learning provides the stimulus needed for the kids’ brains to develop at a faster pace and engages them in activities that can have a positive impact on the learning abilities of the kids.
At SAI Angan, multisensory learning takes the front stage in teaching and learning as teachers plan interactive activities and learning strategies keeping in mind the holistic development of a child. Kids at SAI Angan are given the freedom to explore their learning path through their experiences and nurtured with care in India’s largest preschool. The learning methodologies followed by the faculty at SAI Angan are focused on developing kids’ logical, linguistic, kinaesthetic, naturalistic, intra and interpersonal skills through activity-based teaching in SAI Angan’s specially designed classrooms.
At SAI Angan preschool, we understand that if a child is not learning properly, then we need to change the learning strategy so that the kid can adapt better with the learning methods and achieve the goal of gaining important skills and knowledge needed for later stage of his life.
Multisensory learning taps into the various sensory strengths of a child. While pursuing multisensory learning techniques, teachers understand that often a child has one sensory strength which if tapped into properly, can help him learn at a faster pace. The sensory strengths are understood and curriculum at the pre-school and its related educational activities are planned around these strengths so that the activities complement the learning styles of the kids and help them stay engaged in learning. SAI Angan therefore helps in developing personalized learning for the kids.
Multisensory learning activities are planned by teachers at SAI Angan by tapping into visual reasoning skills, auditory teaching techniques, tactile teaching techniques and kinaesthetic methods. Under the visual reasoning skills and related activities, teachers plan pictures and texts on paper, matching games, colouring letters and objects to help the tiny tots relate to the subject at hand. Whether its learning the alphabets, learning the numbers or developing advanced speech abilities, visual aids can help the kids amplify learning if used properly to stimulate their minds.
In today’s digital world, SAI Angan uses smart classrooms and multi media educational aids like videos, films, audio visuals and presentations to help kids learn better. By using colours and highlights, we help students pay attention to the important material for learning and help them retain it in memory. Through adaptive reading materials, the teachers at SAI Angan preschool help the students improve their reading and listening skills, crucial for their future primary education.
Tactile teaching methods like using textured teaching objects, sandpaper, sand or modelling clay to include learning activities, helps the students develop their reflexes and hand eye coordination. This also helps them improve their muscle memory and develop other interests and hobbies that are pivotal in the holistic development of a child. Auditory teaching methods like using music, rhymes, and songs to teach the kids simplifies learning for them and also boosts their brainpower, helping them adapt to new skills and abilities.
SAI Angan preschool believes that early education is the foundation of a child’s journey of learning and the formative years should lay down a strong foundation for pursuing higher education in later years. SAI Angan is therefore committed to impart relevant and holistic education to the kids who enter the magical learning environment of SAI Angan, the largest playschool of India.
