buildingBlocks, a first of it's kind Research organization in the field of Primary and Elementary Education, has launched India's first afterschool program (blockClasses). The program is an outcome of months of research, countless hours of discussion with eminent educationists, analysis and re-analysis of urban Indian neighborhoods, countless hours of brainstorming amongst the Research team, a lot of commitment and most importantly the uncompromising passion to create a NEW India.
The program is getting launched this summer, as a introductory summer workshop at Bharti Public School, Swasthya Vihar. In case if you are interested to know more about the program, kindly register for the introduction seminar in second week of May.
Finally, we are extremely thankful to our team to spend so much time in making all of this possible.
Actually, our team has been neck deep with work. The curriculum desing team is working hard on the curriculum to make it the most beautiful and scientifically proven curriculum for all the blockers (children as we lovingly call them) who join blockClasses. The training team is working hard to ensure that our instructors are not only qualified and most eligible but also compassionate individuals as well. The promotional team is working hard to get all things 'right' as far as reaching out to the audience is concerned.
The imom team is working hard on giving shape and direction to imom. And, one of them is busy writing his exams. So, all in all we are very busy right now but we love the school blog and will be back soon.
How can you make children environmentally aware without putting him/her to sleep? Let us know -- because sum of minds is always greater than a single mind.
The other day when we raised the question of rain water harvesting on theSchoolBlog, we got some great suggestions from Pudi, a concerned reader based out of Hyderabad (You can read more about his blog over here). Pudi had created a comic strip to stimulate the thoughts of children about Rain Water Harvesting.
We used this comic strip to create a video to incite the sparks of curiosity about rain water harvesting in our class. We actually showed it to one of the Delhi based educators and she liked the idea behind this kind of usage of ICT tools. However, the real litmus test would be when we play this with children and assess if this has any impact. You can also watch it below:
