Activity-Based Learning

• Activity-based learning is the process of learning by doing. As opposed to asking kids to simply listen and take notes, activity-based learning encourages students to actively participate in their own learning experience through practical activities such as problem-solving and independent investigation.

Why activity-based learning?

Besides encouraging kids to enjoy their learning experience, activity-based learning has many benefits, including:

• Helping students memorize information – By encouraging kids to get physically and mentally involved in the learning process, activity-based learning helps students learn and retain information.

• Encouraging kids to be independent and inquisitive – Activity-based learning focuses on independent investigation and analysis. By asking kids to work on their own and/or in small groups, this teaching method encourages students to be independently inquisitive, think critically, and learn from their own experience. This self-directed learning process, in turn, supports their acquisition of knowledge outside (as well as inside) the educational environment.

• Supporting social development – Activity-based learning encourages kids to take responsibility for their own learning experience, group-based activity work also helps students develop teamwork and social skills. These skills will later prove essential to their work and social life.

• Emphasizing the relevance of educational material – Kids don’t always understand the relevance of learning material when simply putting pen to paper. Activity-based learning, on the other hand, helps kids understand the ‘real-life’ relevance of learning material by encouraging them to explore and solve real problems and scenarios.

• Encouraging kids to express themselves in different ways – Activity-based learning encourages kids to be creative in the way they express their knowledge. This learning method provides students with the opportunity to express what they have learned through the act of doing as well as through the act of verbal presentation.

To succeed academically, children don't only need academic training but they also need guidance to develop high social, emotional and leadership competence, which is also known as Emotional Intelligence (EQ).

Zia Public High School builds essential life skills & responsibility in children such as achievement motivation, decision-making, problem-solving, thinking, communication, coping with emotions, action towards sustainability, etc.

We offer interactive learning forums based around:

• Exploration – gathering knowledge and acquiring skills through active investigation.

• Experimentation – gathering knowledge through experience.

• Expression – encouraging kids to express their views through a presentation.

Apart from such skills, this program also helps children need to develop a sense of self-awareness, reflectiveness, and mindfulness in their thoughts and actions. The spiritual development of a child is as important as academic development.

Various strategies such as exercises, case studies, discussions, games, videos and films, storytelling, role-play, reflections, etc., are used in this program to help children introspect and learn.

Program Objectives:

• To facilitate strong social, emotional, life skills, and spiritual development in children.
•  WHO AM I?
      Developing the Mind, body, and spirit
• WHY AM I HERE?
      Life skills development and Achievement motivation
• WHERE AM I?
      Educating for sustainability & social equity