Pre-primary schools in India are really upping the ante,
raising quality standards day by day. They are adopting international standards
of education, thereby raising the bar way too much. Some of the top preschools
in India are following Cambridge University curriculums. They are hiring
internationally trained teachers on their payroll. They have state-of-the-art
facilities in their school premises. Air-conditioned pre-primary schools are a
norm these days. Even the restrooms are air-conditioned with paper napkins and
other utilities in stock.
The technology used by the best pre-primary schools is unbelievable.
They use virtual reality as a learning tool. They also have adopted flipped
classrooms. Artificial intelligence is being used on a large scale in pre-primary
schools all across India. They use digital whiteboards instead of chalkboards. Robotics
is a new entrant in the educational ecosystem. Digital libraries are being used
widely in these top schools. In contrast there are prehistoric schools still
existing in India. These old-fashioned schools still use chalkboards to teach
children. They teach the same old-school nursery rhymes to children. They treat
children like cattle and teach a huge group of students together. They are far
from giving individual attention to kids. Children usually don’t grasp much
from the lectures, because the absorbing capacity of some students is much
lesser than the others, but the teachers teach at the same pace disregarding
the understanding capacity of the children. The top preschools in India are exactly
the opposite. They have limited number of students in each classroom. They pay
individual attention to each child.
In top pre-primary schools the interests of the
child are gauged and those interests are honed to make that child an expert in
that domain. If the child likes sport, the child is exposed to that sport even
more so that he can groom himself and become someone known in that field of
sport when he or she grows up. The best pre-primary schools also hire child psychologists.
One may wonder what is the role of a psychologist in a pre-primary school? But in fact their
role is imperative in schools these days. What a child psychologist actually
does is studies the students in the school and understands their behaviour.
They then rectify flaws in their behaviour right at a nascent stage. It is very
important to rectify flaws in a person’s behaviour right during childhood
because if left alone, these flaws may multiply and create a monster of the
personality. Some children may be very aggressive in their attitude. This
behaviour may result out of aggressive behaviour by people or other children in
the company of that child. This kind of behaviour may mushroom as a result of
interactions in their homes or outside. The child psychologist runs therapy
sessions with such children and makes them more submissive. They also advise
the parents and teachers to treat the child in such a manner that they get more
submissive and also advise them to detach the children from wrong company. With
efforts from all ends the child becomes more sober in behaviour and more
approachable by society.