How Activity-Based Learning Enhances Students' Knowledge Capacity

 A few years ago, school-based learning was not only confined to boring classroom sessions. Teachers provide end-to-end knowledge to students and only some learners pay the complete interest. 

That was the time of more one-way teaching communication. At such times, students might find it interesting to attend a few subject matter classes. 

Nowadays, the focus of pioneer schools and educational institutes is more on implementing activity-based learning at different sessions. It is the way of conducting several attention-grabbing and interesting learning activities for students to gain fast knowledge and retain skills at large.

In a way, it is an engaging way of imparting quality education to students through the way of several playing and learning activities. And ultimately impacts the students at large by means of enhancing their overall learning process. 

Specifically speaking, activity or play-based learning is an integral part of the IB curriculum in India. It focuses more on imparting interest-level education to students to enhance skill development, engagement, and attention.

Key virtues of activity-based learning for students

·     Engage: Kids are associated with doing the exercises planned and hence participate in their own way of learning.

·     Experiment: There is no standard response to be recreated, thus youngsters get the degree to explore and show up at their own answers for a given issue.

·     Explore: Learning through exercises makes it interesting for kids to explore and track down more data about a given issue/circumstance. 

·     Express: At the point when kids are completely engaged with the educational experience it empowers them to communicate their discoveries/learning all the more certainly.

In terms of activity-based learning, here are a few benefits that enable students to learn effectively. 

1.   Encourage student participation: When students engage in several learning activities, they are involved both physically and mentally. It enables their multiple senses to work together towards one or more activities and learn in the better way possible. Compared to lecture-based knowledge retention, indulging in activities is effective, fast, and result-oriented for students to showcase an improved level of academic performance. 

2.   Encourage out-of-the-box thinking: Learning skills through several activities help learners to think deeply and out of the box. It provides a platform for learners to provide their individual contributions and think differently. Moreover, activities provide several opportunities to learners in terms of showcasing active participation, making their relevant points, and more. 

3.   Enable team spirit & social skills: Majorly, activity-based learning is best conducted in a group could be one or more. Therefore, it encourages the students to team up with their friends and fellow learners. Ultimately, it develops social bonding, enhances communication, and allows students to learn team spirit and build confidence. 

4.   Better knowledge retention at large: Learning activities allow students to learn through various explorations and incidents. The knowledge will stay with them for a long and keeps on increasing with the changing time. 

Activity-based learning at schools can be implemented in different sessions and in distinctive ways. It all depends on the curriculum involved that decides the type of activities conducted at various schools and classes. However, the most common set of learning activities is formed in groups, and that too in terms of quizzes, role play, skits, story-telling, games, puzzles, demonstrations, and much more.

Conclusion

Activity-based learning has become an imperative part of the school curriculum that helps enhance overall skill development. More and more students like to learn through different engaging activities to speed up the learning process and gain knowledge retention. In case, you have not implemented activity-based learning yet, then it's time to do so now.