Creating Holistic Learning Environments: How Learners Are Supported and Empowered Through the Whole Child Approach
For what it's
worth, where learning happens is as important as how it happens. For a young
learner to receive the best possible learning experience, it is essential that
every aspect of the learning process is taken into consideration.
As stakeholders
of learning, teachers, parents, and the communities supporting young learners
all play a vital role in shaping their future and nurturing them to become
healthy, challenged, engaged, supported, and safe. Programs designed empower
and enable learning professionals, everyone from teachers and administrators to
school staff, are integral to the well-being of every young learner, and any
effort at improving the support they provide to learners benefits the whole
school as a community.
Holistic
education pertains to the total development of a learner's intellectual,
social, physical, emotional, artistic, and creative capacities, shaping them
into responsible individuals, whole persons who understand their role in
helping build the nation forward and face the challenges of an ever-changing
world.
As a philosophy,
holistic learning involves helping a young learner find meaning and purpose in
life through connections, from the classroom to the community, with nature,
with society at large. With guiding values like compassion and peace, holistic
education brings forward a shared passion for learning that aims to uplift
everyone and help transform the experience of education into something that one
can cherish for a lifetime. This is done by implementing fresh strategies that
help emphasize hands-on experiences, letting young learners learn by doing and
challenge their capacity for critical thinking and develop their
problem-solving skills. Setups that enhance learning from group work and
encourage social interaction to collaborate on solutions are intentionally
designed. With this approach, both understanding and action are prioritized
over rote knowledge, hence facilitating and emphasizing cooperation rather than
mere competition. This also means that throughout the learning process, the
assessment and evaluation of a young learner's progress is dynamic, and every
aspect of the curriculum designed to help create life-long learners.
With the
campaign for progressive education through the Whole Child initiative, holistic
child development has become one of the primary goals of schools. With this
kind of learning philosophy, young learners are provided with personalized
support, safe and secure environments, sound health, and learning opportunities
tailored for their unique, individual skills and talents. Through this
approach, both the traditional academic aspects of learning and the
non-traditional side are nurtured, enhanced, and supported. This means that not
only learning professionals are involved in creating a holistic learning environment,
everyone is: parents, industries, and local communities. All play an important
role in ensuring that every child grows up to become a Whole Child, supported,
equipped, and ready to face the challenges of the 21st century.
The effort to
create a holistic learning environment is marked by several features. This
transition is characterized from a predisposition towards academic achievement
at the fore to a more dynamic perspective of learning as something that
prioritizes and nurtures a person's character for long-term development and
success. By connecting and communicating with education professionals and
linking them with families, community members and policy-making bodies,
supporters of this effort for the Whole Child such as REX Book Store aim to
help every person involved see the true value of holistic education. With
enough effort, young learners will feel supported by the school and by everyone
in the learning community, giving way to their personal development and growth.
This means that if we are to continue nurturing the Filipino learner today, it
is also important to provide professional development services to help schools,
teachers, parents, and administrators address today's challenges in education
and enable them to transform and achieve more in a shifting horizon of
education.
Enabling every
educator to be able to create and innovate solutions that will help nurture
every Filipino learner and bring our nation's education forward. By hosting
conferences and symposiums to help educators learn about new tools, techniques,
and learning pedagogies they can use to provide holistic education to learners
at every level, REX helps support the continuous professional development of
the Filipino educator. With exclusive seminars and workshops designed from
results-oriented and research-based learning programs, REX helps educators
learn more about specialized topics that are relevant to their professional
practice.
At REX, we hope
to transform these humble efforts with helping Filipino educators into a
realization of the Whole Child initiative as a sustainable and productive
campaign that will help build a globally competitive nation from the seeds of a
fruitful collaboration between all stakeholders of education.
Read here to
learn more about how we help engage and enable learning professionals in
supporting students: http://www.rexpublishing.com.ph/whole-child-initiative/supported/
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Reference:
Jerome Samson
09178961568
Media Contact
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