This document discusses different techniques for understanding students and engaging them in learning, including: 1) Connecting students to nature through the "biophilia hypothesis" and increasing outdoor time, as animals can evoke curiosity and joy in children. 2) Using mind-mapping to understand what students are thinking. 3) Incorporating various artforms like movies, music, painting and crafts into education. 4) Telling stories, which is a powerful tool that humans remember best and can develop skills while preserving culture. 5) Developing foundational literacy and numeracy skills by grade 3 through reading, writing and building numeracy understanding.

1. Understanding the Learners’
Liking; How to Learn
By Danish Zahoor
MBA (Marketing & Finance)
MA (Political Science)

5. Children and Animals
• “Biophilia hypothesis” by biologist
Edward O. Wilson, 1984
• Humans have an innate tendency to
associate with other living creatures
• Early childhood educators increased
outdoors time for students
• Animals evoke emotions of curiosity,
care-giving and joy in children

6. What’s in your student’s mind?

7. Mind-Mapping your Students

9. Art-forms for Education
• Movies and
animations
• Music and rhymes
• Painting
• Crafting and clay-
modeling

10. Story-telling
• Most powerful literary tool
• Humans think and remember the best in
stories
• Stories have been used to preserve
religious and cultural values
• Stories can be used to develop linguistic
skills amongst students

11. Educator Artist Psychologist

12. Let’s discuss
Q. What has been
your personal
experience
using art or
mind-mapping
with your
students?

13. Universal objectives of
Foundational Literacy and
Numeracy
• Meaningful reading and writing by
the time students enter grade 3
• Develop their basic understanding
and competencies related to
numeracy

14. (Source: NCERT)

17. Developing Spatial Understanding
Jigsaw-puzzle Rubik’s cube

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