Improving India's Education System: Teachers showcase Toy Based Education!

India's National Council for Education Research and Training (NCERT) recently organized a two-day workshop where teachers from many states such as Andaman and Nicobar Islands, West Bengal, Odisha, and Jharkhand showcased toy-based tools that transform students' educational experience. Through these toy-based tools, such as blocks, puppets, puzzles, etc the teachers aim to create an experiential learning environment for students. This is very important as it makes learning stress-free and an enjoyable experience for the students. Such an education also has many other benefits such as improving the social skills of students.

I believe that this toy-based learning is a great initiative and am glad that the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 has highlighted its importance.

I recently read an interview done by the founder of Rocket Learning, an NGO that aims to ensure that every child in India has access to high-quality early childhood education. It does this by providing Anganwadi Workers (The Anganwadi System is a public daycare system that has been set up by the government) with short digital practice lessons every day. Students are encouraged to watch these lessons and do the activities done in them. These students are also given rewards and nudges once they do activities.

I believe that Rocket Learning is doing great work as they are focusing on the most important group - students between the ages of 3 to 6. This group is very important as these are the years when humans start gaining curiosity and education is the only way to sustain this curiosity through high-quality education.

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