Table of Contents
- Discover the Power of the 9D Framework: Advanced Holistic Child Development and Social Emotional Learning
- The Impact of Social Emotional Learning: What Centennial School Has Achieved
- Want to Explore Further?
Discover the Power of the 9D Framework: Advanced Holistic Child Development and Social Emotional Learning
Centennial School, sponsored by the Shri Ram Centennial Education Foundation, is an innovator in early schooling with the 9D Approach. This philosophy suggests that true education provides an all-encompassing nurture of the child, including personality, with integrated social-emotional learning for harmonious development. Centennial School is unique as its philosophy is whole child development. The aim is to nurture confident, emotionally healthy, socially responsible, and creatively engaged individuals. Now, let us see what makes the 9D approach so unique and transformative.
What is the 9D Approach?
In the 9D Approach, the structured framework that comprises nine critical dimensions of development is essential in nurturing children as whole individuals. The nine dimensions are interrelated, working together to cultivate a rich educational experience that deepens Social Emotional Learning. The Centennial School teaching and learning strategy is based on nine pillars. Below is an excerpt covering some of these pillars.
1. Academic Development
The Centennial School, like other educational institutions, strives to multi-dimensionally diversify learning, beginning with academic development. Centennial School’s academic development starts with the NEP 2020-compliant curriculum. The goals include curiosity-driven exploration, inquiry-based learning, knowledge application, and conceptual understanding. Many educational institutions prioritise rote learning and performing well on examinations. Centennial School differentiates itself by focusing on enabling students to become lifelong learners and authentic problem solvers, understanding the value of Social Emotional Learning.
2. Right Brain Development
Most educational institutions emphasise left-brain development, focusing on orderly, structured, analytic, and logical thinking. The right side of the brain oversees functions about imagination, intuition, creativity, and empathy. Centennial School helps children develop right-brain functions in order for them to be more expressive and develop their emotional intelligence, a critical element in social-emotional learning. Through creative activities such as art, rhythm, storytelling, and creative writing, children become more adaptive.
3. Life Skills Development
Centennial School equips children with essential life skills such as communication, problem-solving, decision-making, and collaboration. These skills are key in helping an individual to progress in life. The life skills that teachers at Centennial School teach children are taught with compassion and confidence. Empathy is infused with everyday engagement in the classroom, issue-based problem solving, and group work. Through guided reflection, children engage in Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) in leadership-driven exercises like role-play and simulation group work that address real-world problems.
4. Development of Multiple Intelligences
Centennial School adopts Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences to recognise the individual potential of each child. Specifically, these intelligences may include linguistic, logical, musical, bodily-kinesthetic, and interpersonal, as well as intrapersonal, visual-spatial, or naturalistic intelligence. Such an approach ensures that the potential of each child is acknowledged and nurtured. This approach also ensures that all children are actively participating, able to succeed, and, at the same time, incorporate social-emotional learning into their development.
5. Parental Development
Great news! The Centennial School supports both the child and the parent. The school supports families by designing workshops and guidance sessions, and providing seminars and parenting channels to assist families in fostering active participation as primary stakeholders in the child’s education. Parents, on the other hand, are taught to support learning from home. Furthermore, they learn the principles surrounding child development. In addition, they understand the school’s method of mindful parenting, which aligns with Social Emotional Learning principles.
6. Value System Development
In today’s rapidly changing world, core values like honesty, gratitude, and kindness are more important. The school incorporates the values within frameworks like daily routines, storytelling, and social projects. They are critical life lessons taught since primary school. Most importantly, children are taught moral reasoning, to think and act morally, and to respect and honour the dignity of other human beings. These practices are anchored in daily life, not in lectures, and complemented by social-emotional learning principles.
7. Health Development
Every child is more effective at learning when they are healthy. At The Centennial School, we offer a balanced diet, nutritious meals, and physical education, meditation, yoga, mindfulness, and health classes. Children also have well-defined emotional well-being programs with physical fitness and safe areas to play. These complement the social-emotional learning objectives and enhance mental and physical.
8. Talent Development
Every child has a budding talent that can be uncovered. The school aids in identifying and fostering diverse talents by professionally guiding students in diverse fields such as dance, music, arts, theatre, robotics, and public speaking. Developing a talent greatly boosts a child’s self-esteem and self-empowerment, which in turn helps achieve the desired social-emotional learning outcomes.
9. Social Development
The school brings together the ability to interact, the ability to communicate, collaborate, and to coexist with a social life to form a single life skill. The Centennial School nurtures and supports healthy social relations, active participation, and inclusivity with the community. Through participating in projects, cooperative learning, social advocacy, and school-wide celebrations, children learn to embrace diversity, conflict, and relationship building, which is crucial to social-emotional learning.
The Impact of Social Emotional Learning: What Centennial School Has Achieved
The Centennial School integrates social-emotional learning to shape future-ready learners, guiding children to navigate life with confidence. Balancing all 9 dimensions under one umbrella harmoniously nurtures the child, which in turn broadens life horizons. The Centennial School equips children with more than just exam readiness; the children become life-ready. Every single day has the potential to emotionally, academically, and physically evolve. Children are transformed into future leaders as they are recognised beyond just active learners, and this remarkable shift, rooted in social-emotional learning.
Want to Explore Further?
We welcome you to join us at The Centennial School as we embark on a transformational journey. We encourage prospective partners interested in collaborating on preschool to K-12 franchise business opportunities to reach out to us.
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