Teaching
                                         Library

Language teaching and learning is not restricted to the English or Hindi periods alone, but extended to all the subject areas. The important purpose while teaching History, Geography or Science, is not merely the transmission of the facts of the respective disciplines, but to help children develop a growing grasp of the specific language of the respective discipline. The amount of information that can be transmitted during the school years and its retention is limited and therefore of relatively less importance. More importantly, the children must have a clear understanding and a firm grasp of the special language and the terminology that has been developed to embody and  symbolized the concepts specific to a particular subject. In Science, for example, the scientific terms must be grasped firmly, in order to render concrete the abstract processes, relations, ideas and entities that form the domain of Science. Awakening the Scientific imagination, is another important task that  we undertake as we teach Science. We hope to develop in our children a sense of wonder, the curiosity, the imaginative and creative recognition of problems and the development of hypothesis, the rational thought, the relentless, painstaking searching for solutions, that has  gone into the making of the body of knowledge called Science.   

In History, Geography, Science and Mathematics, as much as in English and Hindi, we encourage our children to express  themselves independently, appropriately, imaginatively  and creatively. Creative writing , as we call it, is therefore, not restricted only to the subject areas titled- English and Hindi, but extended to all the subject areas. Our teachers and children write stories, poems and enact plays in Science, History and Geography too, thereby recreating the subject matter afresh meaningfully for themselves and making it truly their own.

Our ultimate aim is to equip children with an ever-enlarging repertoire of symbolic tools with which to live their lives, meaningfully, effectively, expressively, with imagination and creativity. We are not educating our children to adapt our children to adapt passively to a society which is far optimal, but hope rather, that our children will be able to think critically, creatively, caringly and independently about the problems that beset the society they live in, trying to find imaginative solutions and the courage to work at making their world a better place.  

  Back