Education today is different from when you went to school. This is because we know so much more about how children learn today than we did when I was young, when you were young or even 10 years ago.
Scientists are finding out more and more about how the brain works. Technology allows us to see how brain neurons work, how connections in the brain are made. Brain imagining shows us what neglect dose to a child’s brain. We can also see the effects of a rich environment has on the developing brain and we now know what constitutes a rich learning environment for young children.
We know that early experiences affect the development of the brain. We know that early brain development provides the foundation for all future learning, behaviour, and health.
“Just as a weak foundation compromises the quality and strength of a house, adverse experiences early in life can impair brain architecture, with negative effects lasting into adulthood.
Emotional well-being and social competence provide a strong foundation for emerging cognitive abilities, and together they are the bricks and mortar that comprise the foundation of human development.
The emotional and physical health, social skills, and cognitive-linguistic capacities that emerge in the early years are all important prerequisites for success in school and later in the workplace and community.”
For young children to be successful later in life they need to have secure relationships with key people in their lives. Parents, family, friends and teachers.
The teachers at RTA understand this and ensure every child forms a secure relationship with teachers and peers.
The curriculum at RTA focuses on academic achievement and emotional stability that sets up the architecture in the brain for future success.
These are some of the strategies that teachers at RTA use to ensure healthy successful brain architecture.
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As a parent you need to ask yourself who is your child spending time with? Do they understand the importance of their relationship with your child? Do they understand how children grow and learn? Do they provide a rich learning environment? Do they allow a child time to learn or do they do things for your child? What is your child learning and who is guiding that learning? Is your child developing strong healthy neuron pathways that will set them up for success?
