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Teaching Children The Value Of Money: 5 Ways Schools Can Help

Teaching the value of money to the children is an art. As children prostrate on elder’s feet on festivals and special occasions, they are given money in our culture. We can teach the children to save this money in a piggy bank. Parents can account for it initially and motivate the children to spend, save and account for their money. How schools can help: Visiting a bank: Schools can arrange a visit to a nearby bank and explain to children, as young as 5–6 years, the process followed in the bank for deposit, withdrawal, etc. A banker can also be invited to the school and explain the young minds, the activities of the bank. Joy of giving week: Schools could motivate the children to spend money from their savings when they celebrate “Joy of giving week”. Each child can bring anything bought from their savings. We at Reeds World School, the No 1 CBSE schools in Coimbatore celebrate the joy of giving week and show children to share our blessings with others. Pock...

The Role Of Background Knowledge In Education

For children to fully grasp a new concept or content, they need to have some prior information about the concept, so that when they learn about it in school, they can co-relate the new data and their background knowledge on it organically. Not much different from the way adults learn new concepts, having some sort of background knowledge (earlier information) about a subject helps children to comprehend it better when they start finding out more about it in the classroom. Why background knowledge is crucial for comprehension Background knowledge becomes significant in a school-going child’s life, particularly when he/she is learning about a previously unheard of concept at school. Without prior information on the topic, children can get overwhelmed adapting to newer concepts and attempts to try and achieve more familiarity about the subject will most likely end up nought. So background knowledge is a good thing, right? Yes, but easier said than done, for, having...

SSVM Is The Best CBSE Schools In Coimbatore

SSVM Is The Best CBSE Schools In Coimbatore School is the second home to children, and life as a student is a treasure and fondly remembered. It’s important that schools impart the best of the knowledge and life’s lessons to the students that give them confidence and holistic development and shape them into responsible citizens. At SSVM group of institutions, we strive to give the best to our students. We have 4 different schools, SSVM School of Excellence , SSVM World School , Reeds World School in Coimbatore and SSVM Mettupalayam School , which is residential, all affiliated to CBSE, Delhi. The students get the best of facilities in these schools right from commutation, library, sports, activity-based education and many more. Play Exercises: Right from kindergarten, children are introduced to play exercises that keep their body and mind strong. Children look forward to each day and love learning in every way! Creative play helps the children in their intellectual...

5 Tips For Parent-Child Communication

Children learn a lot from their parents, who are their first teachers. As children naturally bond with their parents, they learn to communicate verbally and non-verbally. They learn social skills, sharing and to respect others by observing how their parents communicate with them. So, it’s important to have the parent-child communication. Tips: Talk The Ordinary Things: This can be the casual talks, when helping them get ready for school, giving them breakfast or when packing their lunch or when children are dropped to school. Parents can casually ask about the day ahead, what the children are looking forward to and share their workday schedule. Children feel they are given importance! Create A Time To Talk, Everyday: This can be family time, when everyone is at home, after dinner or the few minutes before bedtime. This is to encourage children to share their day with the family and children love to be listened to. Family bonding improves the child’s performance in...

Emotional Intelligence (EQ)

You’ve heard about Intelligence Quotient (IQ) and Physical Intelligence (PQ), but did you know that for children (and adults alike) Emotional Intelligence (EQ) is as important a form of intelligence as cognitive and physical intelligence?   The rundown on EQ   When we say EQ for children, what we broadly mean to imply is the child's capacity to recognize, assess, manage, and communicate their feelings. Countless studies and research have proven that children with high levels of EQ grow up to be highly successful individuals who are humane, empathetic, cooperative & collaborative, responsible, and sensitive leaders who possess elevated capacities of comprehending, identifying, and associating with the individuals around them.   Different from cognitive intelligence (IQ), where scores are derived from a few mandated tests surveying a person's academic knowledge, EQ as a subject, deals primarily with the child’s social intelligence.   EQ - Embe...

How The Right Teacher Can Shape children's future

In the tomorrow that's yet to come, nothing is guaranteed. And while most of us are grappling with 21st Century issues, school-going children and the up-and-coming young adults of today are being primed to learn defense mechanisms for a future teeming with ominous challenges and uncertain probabilities. While still in school, this age of children finds out about the world through the individuals they meet during their initial life. While the primary responsibility of imparting life’s lessons rests with the parents; the second most significant role for youngsters rests with educators and teachers. Grooming them from the budding years Instructors devote their life to teaching children and young adults how to examine and comprehend the world they are presently living in while equipping them with skills in the future that's yet to unfold. They have the enormous obligation to shape the ‘thinking processes’ of their students, to open their psyche, to set them up for deali...

Peer pressure  -  Best CBSE Schools in Coimbatore

Not necessarily positive or negative, but we’ve all given in to peer pressure at some point or another, have borne the consequences of it and lived to tell the tale, haven’t we? What the term peer pressure means  Peers  are those persons we go to class with, associate with (hang out with), and who are like us by way of age and preferences. We may have peers at the workplace or we may meet some of them at an occasion and continue to stay in touch with. Peer Pressure is the influence you have on them and them on you. It is the level of influence, the degree of impact; they can have on you & your peers to act on something. Even though peer pressure doesn’t imply an adverse influence, the expression “pressure” infers that individuals are  goaded  into doing things that they might be impervious to, or might not prefer to do. So typically the expression “peer pressure” is applied when we are discussing practices that are not considered socially all ri...