I’ve been integrating arts-based learning in Sneha’s 5th Standard Superhero class for two consecutive weeks now and am inspired and buoyed by the children’s progress in critical thinking, depth of reflection and focused participation.
Day 1 involved a value-centered lesson exploring the concept of leadership to lay the groundwork for our teaching about the Revolt of 1857 and the revolutionaries who envisioned a greater India.
After each activity we opened the floor for reflections from the students. After the mirror activity, Uday reflected that “it doesn’t matter that she is the leader and I am the mirror because we are doing the movements together and it is better together.”
Later, during the soup reflection at the end of the lesson, Uday said the class was “mind-blowing” and even asked if the class could do a project to clean up the neighborhood so that they could all become leaders.
Needless to say, mine and Sneha’s minds were the ones blown away by Uday’s reactions to the lesson.
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