This approach of providing real world opportunities is the one Gardenia has taken to alter the education pattern by which the life of children takes a more appreciable turn to achievement of goals set by them. Gardenia becomes the inspirational centre for children in discovering innovative ideas that enables them to connect with the real world.
Is the education system of today catering to this inevitable need of children? It is still a mystery or a myth why in this technological advancement era, education is used as a benchmark tool of an individual’s assessment and evaluation.
There is this complete transformation at Gardenia, aligning with the Montessori Method and side lines the assessment or evaluation from examination point of view where only the academic brilliance of a child is put to test and the other aspects that make up the individual are completely ignored. Right from the beginning the Montessori education advocates that children should learn everything naturally with real world connectivity rather than from fantasy concepts or stories that is beyond the imagination of the child. When knowledge is accompanied with the embedding of real world components into the child’s education, the growth of children is phenomenal in all aspects, making them supreme and adds to the excellence of their brilliance.
In the Montessori powered education at Gardenia, the real world connectivity is always encouraged and carefully nurtured too. This is done in the form of field trips, constructions, cognitive celebrations, exhibitions and going outs. In all these activities, children are in constant touch with happenings of the real world around them. A trip to airport will make them familiar with all the procedures followed to depart or wait for arrival while a trip to the local bakery will make them familiar with the making of bread and biscuits that they consume every day. Local parks and botanical gardens can be a source of going-outs that enables them to learn more about the plant kingdom while information about the animal kingdom is gathered when the going-out destination is the zoo. There are specific learning camps arranged focusing on a particular region that may be of historical importance. Any additional source of information on vegetation, climate, and topography, famous personalities who may have lived in those areas along with the observation of culture, custom and tradition kindles the inspiration in children to learn more about everything.
In all, the real world learning opportunities given to children at Gardenia in the Montessori Method sharpens their skills to handle any situation with ease, without hurting or harming others. The child learning everything spontaneously with a minimum of effort from the adults is what that makes this real world learning a mandatory principle at Gardenia. Not to deny the conventional system of education provides enough learning, but the absence of real world learning opportunities makes it a crippled method where the most important factor of learning is ignored. The Montessori Method followed at Gardenia reigns supreme by providing these opportunities, making children creators of society of total harmony.