1. Brief introduction about our "Brain Gym" program.
"Brain Gym" is an E.Q. development program for nursery and pre-kid children. E.Q. stands for Emotional Quotient which plays very important role in preparing child to socialize with other members in social group and to develop his proper personality trait that will be with him for the rest of his life. Another objective is to develop general motor skill of young pre-school children mostly through various playing equipments and activities.
2. Benefit for children.
This course will guide children to better know their body and limitation of each body part and assist child to achieve a reasonable level of social conformity and competence through playing different motor movement equipments and self-confidence enhancing activities. The child has to learn from experience in what manner his body and it’s every movement are affected by force of gravity and what movement it is necessary to make and at what speed in order either to counteract the force or to make use of it in order to achieve his intention.
3. How effective our staff is ?
Teacher and staffs in our "Brain Gym" have good and long experience of child’s E.Q. development. The class leader has been well trained by licensed center of an internationally recognized child development institution from Europe. This is just to ensure that "Brain Gym" program can really assist children to have proper development at their age.
4. How do we teach in "Brain Gym" ?
Our course activities and playing equipments are tailored to the age of children grouped into the 1- 2 years old group of children and the 2-3 years old group children. Through a 30 minutes class attendance, there will be three sessions of activities which are
1. General motor skill equipments playing, in this part children will learn how to use their muscle both small and large muscle through playing various equipments which specially designed to develop each particular body part of children. In addition, this activity will simultaneously prepare / strengthen the children’s muscle for future usage e.g. small muscle - fingers and hands for writing etc. Moreover the course will also improve children’s social skill by making them to feel more confident once they achieved each set of equipment.
2. Co-ordination, this is to develop eye-hand, eye-foot and eye-foot-hand co-ordinating movement. and
3. Singing and dancing which will enhance better language skills as well as E.Q. development for children.
5. What is our goal ?
The purpose of "Brain Gym" is to build and raise up the self confidence of children through their achievement of each motor skill development activities ( positive experience ). We strongly believed that proper self confidence for child is a basic step of being a successful adult in the future.
6. How effective our "Brain Gym" is comparing to others ?
Since our "Brain Gym" emphasizes on child-center learning which is the pulling tactic meaning that a proper environment is being created to persuade / attract interest of children to participate the program not the pushing or teacher- oriented learning program which is an information feeding dominant broadly applied by most of other educational centers, the children will cordially enjoy playing activities specifically designed for each receptive stage of life. This can be proven by child’s smiling face and demanding for class repetition after termination of session.
7. Does our "Brain Gym" classroom have good and adequate equipments ?
The equipments are carefully designed and set to fit each specific activity.One set of equipment can be arranged in various styles depending on the purpose of each activity as to ensure that each piece of equipment will be efficiently utilized. Besides we have strictly limit number children not exceeding 20 children per class to enable our staffs thoroughly take care of children and let them effectively enjoy the activities.
8. How can children get developed and what will our children get developed ?
"Brain Gym" program will allow the children repeatedly go through same activity for a reasonable number of times to ensure that they will genuinely learn and achieve the purpose of the program. Children will gain more and more self-confidence after completion of activity at each playing station of which equipments will be always re-positioned as to challenge and stimulate children , this will create the feeling of "YES, I can do it". Through our "Brain Gym" program the child will simultaneously develop both an E.Q and a better motor skill which will prepare them to be a mentally and physically healthy adult.
จากงานวิจัยพบว่า “เด็กปฐมวัย” ช่วงสามปีแรก สมองสามารถเติบโตถึง 80 % ของสมองผู้ใหญ่ ดังนั้นโรงเรียนจึงมองเห็นความสำคัญในด้านการพัฒนาสมองของเด็กที่ถูกต้อง จึงนำโปรแกรมการพัฒนาสมอง “Brain Gym” เข้ามาเป็นส่วนหนึ่งในการพัฒนาเด็ก “เนิร์สเซอรี่” ซึ่งเด็กจะรับการพัฒนาสมองผ่านกิจกรรมการเล่นอย่างเป็นระบบ จากผู้ชำนาญการด้านพัฒนาสมอง ซึ่งเป็นครูชาวต่างชาติ หลักสูตรนี้จะสนับสนุนความสมดุลของพัฒนาการเด็กทุกด้าน
- Muscular training ส่งเสริมพัฒนาการด้านร่างกายสำหรับวัยเตาะแตะให้มีความคล่องแคล่ว สมบูรณ์
- Senses พัฒนาประสาทสัมผัสทั้ง 5 ให้สัมพันธ์กันเพื่อเตรียมความพร้อมในการเรียนรู้สิ่งต่างๆต่อไป
- Practical Living exercise พัฒนาการผ่านกิจกรรมประจำวันทุกวัน
- Intellectual development พัฒนาการด้านความคิดจากกิจกรรมและสามารถใช้ความคิดอย่างมีเหตุผล มีผล
- Reading & Writing พัฒนาความพร้อมด้านการอ่าน การเขียน ผ่านกิจกรรมการพัฒนากล้ามเนื้อมัดเล็กและสายตา
