Summary:
The board games are helpful for introduction, recapitulation and testing students,” said Kashmira Jaiswal, vice-principal of the school who conducted a workshop for teachers on ‘Gaming in Classroom’. “Slow learners take days to understand something which is taught in a traditional way, but through these games they can learn concepts quickly because these games encourage them to think,” Jaiswal said. Teachers of five subjects – social studies, science, mathematics, English and Hindi – have done their own research and created board games for students of class I to class VIII.“Currently these games are made on the basis of first two chapters and we will expand these to later chapters. Vadodara: Games in tablets and mobile phones are best friends of school going children these days due to which not only the traditional board games like snakes and ladders and tic tac toe among others have been long forgotten but have also drawn kids away from socializing.However, around 50 teachers of city-based Navrachana School have designed innovative board games which will draw the students out of the mobile phones, throw challenges at them and create a fun learning experience.After working for six months, the team of teachers has created at least 200 board games which are based on lessons of NCERT books. She added that there are elements of excitement, winning and scientific pedagogy in these games and teachers can also spend less time on chalk and talk method of teaching.The games are designed on the lines of games like snakes and ladders, tic tac toe and playing cards where children also have to answer the questions from their syllabi posed at them through the games and the evaluation is done by their classmates.The games have also been helpful to students who are slow learners..