Rahul International School (RIS) - Education Blog

There’s so much that kids don’t know about the world, or are misled with false information. You know that, as your child’s first teacher, you have a lot of ground to cover to educate your kids about real-world issues. But it’s important not to forget one issue that impacts many parts of their lives: cybersecurity. Kids who don’t know how to keep themselves cyber secure are vulnerable to losing their information, their identity, and their money. Here’s how you, as a parent, can have “the talk” with your kids about cybersecurity. Let them know what’s at stake, The first thing kids need to know about cybersecurity is that the threat is real. There are cybercriminals who want to steal from anyone, even a kid. In general, staying cyber secure revolves around the following three areas: Threats to information, Threats to identity, Threats to finances. Many kids have never had to consider these threats before. By educating them on why cybersecurity matters, kids are more likely to ...

The new NEP is talking about the New Structural Curriculum for the Foundation Stage from Preschool to Grade 2. Parents are sitting with their queries as to why the change. To encourage active learning in the classroom, our learners need to cope with the challenges and differences. The experience should be bridged to the next learning outcome desired to ensure a smooth transition of the learner’s previous knowledge. Young learners learn better by doing practical tasks, exploring things and they receive support wherever necessary. They learn from actions rather than passive observations.   Preschool should focus on designing curriculum that emphasizes the importance of continuity in the curriculum of Pre-Primary to Primary.   To bring ease in learning school needs to innovate active learning that keeps learners immersed. In a preschool setting, there should be ample scope to focus on learners who need extra support or who show development delay in their growth as per the miles...

  A learning style is an individual’s approach to absorbing and processing information, which mostly enters the brain through sight (visual), hearing (auditory) and touch (kinesthetic). Every child learns in a slightly different way, experts say, and figuring out your child's own learning style can help assure academic success. Parents need to keep their eyes and ears open to figure out what works best for their children when it comes to learning, "Some children are hands-on, while others work best through language and do well with reading," Some children understand things better than they remember them. There are many different patterns of learning, and the best thing that a parent can do is step back and observes what seems to be happening and what seems to be working with their child." Experts have identified 3 primary learning styles into which most people fall: visual, auditory, and kinesthetic. Even at a very early age, observational clues can indicate a like...

When we think of student engagement in learning activities, it is often convenient to understand engagement with an activity as being represented by good behavior i.e. (behavioral engagement), positive feelings (i.e. emotional engagement), and, above all, student thinking (i.e., cognitive engagement). This is because learners may be behaviourally or emotionally invested in a given activity without actually exerting the necessary mental effort to understand and master the knowledge, craft, or skill that the activity promotes. In light of this, considering the following interrelated elements when designing and implementing learning activities may help increase student engagement behaviorally, emotionally, and cognitively, thereby positively affecting student learning and achievement. Connect what you’re teaching to real life One key way to involve learners in their learning is to make sure the material speaks to them.  Choose culturally relevant materials . Have lea...

Blending of technology-based teaching strategies into the teaching curriculum to get students to acquire, organize, and demonstrate information is known as technology integration. Technology, when integrated into the curriculum, revolutionizes the learning process. More and more studies show that technology integration in the curriculum improves students' learning processes and outcomes. Teachers who recognize computers as problem-solving tools change the way they teach. " Integrating technology into classroom instruction means more than teaching basic computer skills and software programs in a separate computer class. Effective tech integration must happen across the curriculum in ways that research shows deepen and enhance the learning process. In particular, it must support four key components of learning: active engagement, participation in groups, frequent interaction and feedback, and connection to real-world experts." The goal of ...

RIS promotes the learners to acquire STAR Skills. Learners develop their synthesizing, thinking, analyzing and reasoning abilities through the innovative pedagogy and curriculum transaction in the classroom. In today’s global and rapidly changing world, learners need to be able to do much more than just repeat facts or continue with rote learning; they need to be critical thinkers who can make sense of information, analyze, compare, contrast, make inferences, and generate higher-order thinking skills. Learners begin to express verbally from the age of 2 years and we are able to recognize their first development in conversational skills and the other skills take time to develop and change over time. They observe and imitate from the environment but over the years they develop STAR abilities and are able to use critical thinking skills to think back on how to solve problems in order to find solutions.    There is no formula to make your child think critically. As a parent or f...

Today, the pandemic has brought forth that e-Learning is the need of the world. In this, the digital era, many sectors, departments, industry, regions, and countries are following the e-Learning concept for education, training and evaluation purposes. In my opinion, e-Learning is not just an electronic transfer of content; it is a different way of presenting and teaching content to interested learners. It is a medium of transferring knowledge, not content and syllabus. E-Learning is not just limited to content alone, it goes beyond that. To understand the impact of e-learning, let us take an example of a movie. If you give the script of a movie or a novel to someone and ask him/her questions based on them, 99% of the people will not be able to give answers to all the questions. However, if the same novel or script is converted into a movie, the same people will be able to answer 99% of the questions. The content, context and story are all the same, but the results vary. E-Learnin...