National Sports Day-2020 is observed on birth anniversary day (August 29) of Major Dhyan Chand, Hockey Wizard of India. President Ram Nath Kovind will be virtually conferring the National Sports and Adventure Awards 2020 on National Sports Day, stated a PIB release of August 28.
The virtual event is being held due to COVID pandemic crisis. "65 awardees are expected to attend the ceremony. The awardees will attend the ceremony from various places across the country - Bengaluru, Pune, Sonipat, Chandigarh, Kolkata, Lucknow, Delhi, Mumbai, Bhopal, Hyderabad and Itanagar. The Ceremony will be launched at 11 AM on 29 August 2020. The event will be telecast live on Doordarshan and streamed live,"added the release.
I think, there is a need for 'sports intergrated schools' in our country and emphasis on 'kinesnethetic intelligence based learning' for children in a age group 3 to 8 years (Foundation Stage).
There are a few sports school in India, however, the Motilal Nehru School Of Sports (MNSS), Rai, Haryana, was once considered to be best integrated school for sports and academics. The co-educational residential school was founded in July 1973 by the Government of Haryana on the public school pattern to integrate sports and formal education. The school was started with good teaching staff and exemplary coaches and it got ranked among the top 10 boarding schools as per the Education World evaluation.
An ex-student of MNSS is running the school 'Som Gurukul' in Kurukshetra of Haryana in which children along with academics specialise in the game of hockey quite successfully. Likewise, another ex-student of MNSS, Lt Col Pradeep Kumar Chowdhri (Retd,) provides education and soccer training to rural deprived girls of Choma Khera in Gurugram, who have become known as 'Choma Eagles' and created a splash by beating the girls of various elite schools hollow in various regional soccer tournaments.
Though, these two case-illustrations underscore the importance of integration of sports and academics, however, there is a need to have an integrated curriculum in the real sense as a well-designed and executed innovation.
It is said that most children in their early years are kinesthetic learners who learn by doing rather than by reading or listening. In the early childhood, ball catching, ball throwing, ball kicking, ball bouncing, ball chasing, ball rolling, ball kicking, ball tackling activities should be done done with proper stances and postures. I think, there a space for innovation of kinesthetic learning in Nursery, KG and early-primary classes.
Ball tag games, ball bucketing, ball aiming games, dodge ball game, soft ball hit-games, and satolia game, games with marbles, etc. should be played in a systematic way as a part curriculum in the foundation stage of education. All these activities with balls lead to better attentiveness, coordination skills, fine motor development, gross motor development, process learning, interest in formal learning, interest in sports, etc. It can also be linked to language learning, basic pre-number numeracy, movement therapy, yoga therapy and interest in sports.
It is said that most children in their early years are kinesthetic learners who learn by doing rather than by reading or listening. In the early childhood, ball catching, ball throwing, ball kicking, ball bouncing, ball chasing, ball rolling, ball kicking, ball tackling activities should be done done with proper standing / stance, singing and postures.
ball tag games, ball bucketing, ball aiming games, dodge ball game, soft ball hit-games, and satolia game, etc should be played in a systematic way. All these activities with balls lead to better attentiveness, coordination skills, fine motor development, gross motor development, process learning, interest in formal learning, interest in sports, etc. It can be linked to language learning, basic pre-number numeracy, and age-appropriate sports vocabulary as a part of cognitive skills development.
The activities should be systematic and make use of children natural and basic kinaesthetic intelligence to develop other intelligences. If kinaesthetic learning is ignored, it leads to many developmental gaps among children to make them slow-learners.
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