Minute to Win It

Personality Development: Creating an Emotionally Safe Classroom

At The Art of Brain, we have introduced personality development for the children. “Moulding skill set happens in childhood”. The Art of Brain – Brain Carve teaches ways to moulding the child's character as everything starts from within and life is self defined. These new experiences shape our emotions, beliefs, values, and behaviors. For those who find pleasure in discovery, however, there will be a lifetime of learning. They will seek novelty and reap the rewards of mastering new experiences-maturity, creativity and wisdom. We wish this gift for our children.

How can we help our children find pleasure in these first few classroom experiences that will lead to a lifelong hunger for knowledge? The key is safety.

Optimal learning is driven by curiosity which leads to exploration, discovery, practice, and mastery. In turn, mastery leads to pleasure, satisfaction, and confidence to once again explore. The more a child experiences this cycle of wonder, the more she can create a lifelong excitement and love of learning. The cycle of wonder, however, can be stopped by fear.

The fear response is deeply ingrained in the human brain. Under threat of any kind-hunger, thirst, pain, shame, confusion, or too much, too new, or too fast-we respond in ways to keep us safe. Our minds will focus only on the information that is, at that moment, important for survival. Fear kills curiosity and inhibits exploration.

An effective teacher understands child growth and development.

* Children develop through predictable stages.

* Growth is deeply influenced by culture, personality, and environment.

* Social and physical development and intelligence do not proceed for all children at the same rate.