Our Classroom Practices

Morning Meeting - gathering as a whole class each morning to greet one another, share news, and warm up for the day ahead

Rule Creation - helping students create classroom rules to ensure an environment that allows all class members to meet their learning goals

SILENT SITTING Silent Sitting provides an opportunity for the children to sit quietly and let their minds be peaceful for a minute or two, allowing them to tune in to their inner resources. We do this for better concentration, better receptivity and improvement of understanding. At a deeper level, it improves memory and prepares the ground for intuitive awakening; it develops patience and discipline.  All this requires is asking the children to sit still in a steady posture and close their eyes. The teacher may ask the children to picture an object e.g. the beauty of a flower or a beautiful scene, or they may be asked to listen to a piece of soothing music.

GROUP SINGING Singing is a wonderful way in which children and teachers can join together in fun and friendship while learning. Songs express the language of the heart; they remove barriers and promote peace and love. Music and group singing are the most powerful weapons to put the human system in harmony and rhythm. When the children sing together, they also realise the value of co-operation. Singing improves memory, instils peace, love and appreciation and gives a feeling of joy. The songs can be varied in nature – folk, patriotic, ballad or popular. Anything that is learnt through song and music remains much longer in the memory and is easy to recall. The songs go round and round in the mind, reminding the children of their values and actions.

STORY – TELLING Story-telling may be the most effective of our techniques. The stories create role-models that the children will want to emulate. Since the dawn of creation, nothing more effective than stories has been thought of when it comes to driving any message home. A story generates interest, captures the attention and leaves a beautiful moral to think about and act upon. Stories bring out the parallel situations of life and suggest solutions; they add colour and variety to the school situation; they widen the imagination and help to sharpen the children’s sensibilities and sensitivities. Stories can be drawn from any source such as history, folk-lore, mythology or even created afresh. They symbolise the flight of human imagination and plant heroic and adventurous ideals in the minds of children. They have a direct impact on the conduct of children and are consequently extremely useful for cultivating the value of Right Action.


Interactive Modeling - teaching children to notice and internalize expected behaviors through a unique modeling technique