What studies say on Early Childhood Education Early education is the education that children typically receive before being enrolled in school as a grade one student. For many reasons, this is an extremely important step in children’s education. Ninety percent of brain growth occurs by age 5. This means that the education children receive during […]
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The New Educational Policy and the challenges ahead Most of us, who had read the Draft National Educational Policy 2019 already knew of the storm that was about to come if this policy would have been implemented. The fact that either the national policy on education or the national curriculum framework can be such a
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Activity Based Learning and Teaching Methodology The unparalleled rate of cognitive development during a child’s formative years necessitates the maximization of learning outcomes in this phase. Children’s cognitive development is highly contingent on genetics, environment as well as the experiences that they go through. Brain development takes place at a rate that is much more
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A Fellowship for the Youth of Odisha Though the percentage of urban population is less in Odisha, the pace of growth of population in cities and towns across Odisha is greater than that of several Indian states. The growing population in urban Odisha has huge implications on infrastructure and provision of other civic amenities in
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HOME-BASED LEARNING PROGRAM IN ACTION With schools and anganwadis closed down due to the pandemic, ThinkZone’s Home-Based Learning Program has been engaging parents in their children’s learning through call and SMS. Through this, we are providing parents access to easy educational activities for children in the age group of 3-10 years old to help in
What parents have to say about our Home-Based Learning Program \Amitav Mallick’s contentment could barely be contained as he spoke joyously about the progress that his 4-year-old son Sahin has made throughout this lockdown. A resident of a small district called Kendrapara, he had never imagined that his son would be able to continue learning
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Social Entrepreneurship – A roller coaster ride My journey as a social entrepreneur has been nothing short of a roller coaster ride! I always dreamt that all children from under-resourced communities should have access to quality education for a better future and that’s how the idea of ThinkZone was born. That idea has turned into
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Celebrating Women Changemakers So, this post is about International Women’s Week celebrations and I know I am quite late in sharing this! 🙂 But I thought of writing about this for quite some time now. I would also like to thank Annapurna Finance for inviting me to ‘WOHarmony 2020’ as a panelist and asking me
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The Ripple Effect The inspirational story of Lopamudra, Rachna, and Priyanka who broke stereotypes. ThinkZone has been working with women across rural areas of Odisha. In one such remote village of Cuttack District, Babujanga has ThinkZone’s one of the first learning centers. ThinkZone’s learning center is a place run by a woman where kids are
For the last few years, ThinkZone has been working to provide quality education in rural areas of Odisha. ThinkZone’s program is primarily for kids of the age group of 3 to 10 years old, going to primary schools and anganwadis. To reach out to these kids, we engage with school teachers, Anganwadi workers, or the
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