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Education around the world is getting more and more dependent on technology. There is no denying the fact that the use of technology has its own significance and is just indispensable in certain scenarios. But in doing so, something is lost: the opportunity to touch, to smell, to climb, to experience. Educationists around the world have started believing in the beauty of educating kids outside the traditional classroom, whether in a garden in the school, a forest in the Western Ghats or on a mountaintop in the Himalayas.

Let us together explore the need of outdoor education!

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In a true Montessori environment, play is the child's work and work is the child's play. It is when we undermine either of them as insignificant, that learning becomes nothing but mere conditioning. True learning comes from freeing the mind, body and spirit of the child, allowing him to absorb and invite into his being all that life, nature and the good energies that the environment has to offer. Here's an excerpt from an interview of Joseph Chilton Pearce on similar thoughts.

"You can't have real learning with a child unless they are playing. Real playing is how real learning takes place. You can have conditioning and a Pavlovian conditioning of his dogs, or behaviors modifications through other means which we look on as very serious, and we generally call learning, but it's not learning. It's conditioning.

Real learning takes place by what Maria Montessori would call the absorbent mind of the child. Simply absorbing their universe, absorbing it, becoming it, and they do this through play. Play can be the most serious undertaking of a child's life. It is the most serious undertaking. They are completely entrained in play. Mind, the three parts of the mind; thought, feeling, action, the body, every aspect of the child's self entrained solely focuses totally on the activity of absorbing their world. Absorbing their environment. It is the most serious active to their life because they're literally building their construction of knowledge of the world, of themselves, of the relationship between the two and laying down all the foundations for the later forms of intelligence".

Joseph Chilton Pearce is an American author of a number of books on human development as well as child development, and is most known for his books, Crack in the Cosmic Egg, Magical Child and The Bond of Power: Meditation and Wholeness.

Over the last century, Dr. Maria Montessori’s ideas have had a profound and growing influence on education around the world. However, while individual elements of her program are finding
their way into more classrooms every year, there is a cumulative impact that we see when schools fully implement the entire Montessori model, which creates something quite distinct!

■ Montessori schools begin with a deep respect for children as unique individuals. They work from a deep concern for their social and emotional development.
■ Montessori schools are warm and supportive communities of students, teachers, and parents. Children don’t get lost in the crowd!
■ Montessori consciously teaches children to be kind and peaceful.
■ Montessori classrooms are bright and exciting environments for learning.
■ Montessori classes bring children together in multi-age groups, rather than classes comprised of just one grade level. Normally, they span three age levels. Children stay with their teachers for
three years. This allows teachers to develop close, long-term relationships with their pupils, allows them to know each child’s learning style very well, and encourages a strong sense of community among the children. Every year, more non-Montessori schools adopt this effective strategy.
■ Montessori classrooms are not run by the teachers alone. Students are taught to manage their own community and
develop leadership skills and independence.
■ Montessori assumes that children are born intelligent; they simply learn in different ways and progress at their own pace. The Montessori approach to education is consciously designed to recognize and address different learning styles, helping students learn to study most effectively. Students progress as they master new skills, moving ahead as quickly as they are
ready.
■ Montessori students rarely rely on texts and workbooks. Why? Because many of the skills and concepts that children learn
are abstract, and texts simply don’t bring them to life. Also, in the case of reading, many reading series fail to collect first-rate
and compelling stories and essays; instead, Montessori relies upon hands-on concrete learning materials and the library,
where children are introduced to the best in literature and reference materials.
■ Learning is not focused on rote drill and memorization. The goal is to develop students who really understand their schoolwork.
■ Montessori students learn through hands on experience, investigation, and research. They become actively engaged in
their studies, rather than passively waiting to be taught.
■ Montessori challenges and sets high expectations for all students, not only those considered ‘gifted.’
■ Students develop self-discipline and an internal sense of purpose and motivation. After graduation from Montessori, these
values serve them well in high school, college, and in their lives as adults.
■ Montessori schools normally reflect a highly diverse student body, and their curriculum promotes mutual respect and a global perspective.
■ Students develop a love for the natural world. Natural science and outdoor education is an important element of our children’s
experience.
■ The Montessori curriculum is carefully structured and integrated to demonstrate the connections among the different subject
areas. Every class teaches critical thinking, composition, and research. History lessons link architecture, the arts,
science, and technology.
■ Students learn to care about others through community service.
■ Montessori teachers facilitate learning, coach students along, and come to know them as friends and mentors.
■ Students learn not to be afraid of making mistakes; they come to see their mistakes as natural steps in the learning process.
■ Montessori students learn to collaborate and work together in learning and on major projects. They strive for their personal
best, rather than compete against one another for the highest grade in their class.

The Montessori Awareness Week will organise "Parvarish" on Saturday 31st August 2013, 9:30 am to 2:00 pm at the Annupuram Hall, Dr A S Rao Nagar, Hyderabad. To know more write to [email protected].

We at Pebble Creek, follow a research based curriculum that follows the child and expands the curiosity and intellect of young learners.
Students are nurtured as per their interests and capabilities and not as per the textbook and syllabus.

The geometry box is ideal for first constructions in geometry. In the box are included along with colored geometric lines and curves also half circles and angles for the calculation of the angle. It all forms of surface geometry can thus be made and fixed by enclosed booklet pins.

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Let's realize our responsibility towards Mother Earth & pledge to do every bit that we can to save it.

At Pebble Creek, we believe in the same...

Pebble Creek offers an integrated Primary School Programme. It offers a very rich research based curriculum that is essential for the expanding curiosity and intellect of the young learner.

The school encourages students to use the well equipped library to carry out extensive research as a group or independently.