How can a school enhance physical and intellectual development of the students?
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Schools and colleges play a pivotal role in helping to develop positive physical activity habits by raising awareness of the importance of regular physical activity and by increasing children's' exposure to fun and varied activities, as well creating more active environments so that pupils find it easier to simply move
ENHANCE PHYSICAL AND INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT IN STUDENTS
Most school staff are already aware of the physical benefits of exercise, such as strengthening of the heart and lungs, preventing weight gain, healthy bones, good posture, and more. However, many are not aware of the potential brain-boosting benefits of physical activity with regard to school performance. Physical education class and recess are usually the first things cut when more academic time is required for remediation in reading and math skills. At the end of the day, the children are spending too much time in a sedentary mode. Research indicates that this sedentary lifestyle has a negative effect on cognitive development.
- Add new colors and link them to the skills of the week – e.g. yellow could mean children should skip over the zebra crossing, while pink could mean they should leap over the speed bumps.
- Incorporate the skills of the week into Simon Says to give it more of a focus. Simon Says can also be used to boost knowledge of body awareness, which is really important: if children are unaware of how their bodies fit together, they will struggle with spatial awareness.
- Active stories and games build motor skills while encouraging imagination, creativity, and language skills.
- Select music that changes tempo such as a favorite nursery rhyme or piece of classical music. Encourage children to move to the tempo and volume levels (faster with faster tempos, reaching high if music is loud or high-pitched, and low if music is soft or low-pitched).
Intellectual development is all about learning. It is about how individuals organize their minds, ideas, and thoughts to make sense of the world they live in. Cognitive or intellectual development means the growth of a child's ability to think and reason.
- Memory
- Moral development
- Problem-solving
- Language development
- Abstract thinking
- Communication and social skills are good to teach at an early age as most of these skills are needed throughout life. You can do this in a fun way.
- When children are thrown a challenge, they most certainly try to complete it. Tell them that they can never do this particular work or plead them not to do a particular work. (Play way/ Using negative psychology).
- Simply tell students to relax by keeping their eyes closed. Ask them to open their eyes as soon as you stop counting. Tell them that the one who opens his/her eyes before counting will lose.