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Top Notch trainings and facilities for teachers

Bodakdev  School motivated all the teaching and non-teaching staff during this pandemic through its various initiatives.

Laptop loans were sanctioned for teachers to buy laptops/ desktops for conducting virtual classes from home.

Free Work at home Internet Pack from Jio has been given to all teachers to resolve bandwidth issues.

The staff attended more than 12 hours of online training from MS Teams, ExtraMarks and many reputed trainers of the country for making digital learning smooth for our students.

The school gives training budgets to each teacher, and it encourages them to take up various training courses.

The number of working days has been increased to keep the students engaged during the pandemic. Staff have been given the flexibility to work from home and work remotely for their safety.

Health and life insurance

Entire staff has been medically insured with a   package worth Rs Three lakhs. This package includes all medical emergencies, including COVID.

Similarly, all employees have been provided with a life cover worth Rs Ten lakhs. This life insurance policy would be given in case of untimely death and COVID Death.

The school bore the cost of health insurance and life insurance.

Smooth Transition to Primary

Bodakdev follows all the protocols laid by NCERT for preschool curriculum.
The main features that are followed
1) Parameters for infrastructure
2) Qualifications of preschool staff
3) Admission process and records
4) Coordination and conversations with parents
5) Addressing issues of each child related to early learning
6) Major goals of NCERT that include key concepts/skills, pedagogical process and learning outcomes for children

Free licensed MS Office

BSFC provides free licensed MS Office to each child during this phase of digital learning.

Some of the key benefits are

  1. Students of pre-primary can access the online version of MS Office, which includes MS Word, Excel, Powerpoint and Access.
  2. This add on advantage keeps the child safe while working online to submit projects.
  3. It also teaches a habit of using licensed software.

Microsoft Teams based classrooms

Microsoft Teams is the best tool that enables teachers to connect and communicate with toddlers and conduct classes in a safe virtual environment.

Here are some of the features of the MS Team classrooms

Using a large gallery view of MS Teams toddlers can view their entire class and meet their friends virtually.

  1. It also makes them feel as if they are sitting in their class, and hence we provide a real virtual experience to young children.
  2. Assignments and videos are shared regularly for toddlers to practice at home.
  3. Parents can access different channels for different projects.
  4. Individual channels are created for resources and video content curated by teachers.

myON – Access to Digital Library

Bodakdev School has a tie-up with the myON-Digital library. The online library has a collection of more than 5,000 books.

Advantages of the library are

  1. Toddlers remain engaged with built-in graphics and audio support that are specifically designed for young children with pre-reading skills.
  2. Parents can check what skills and subskills toddlers have learnt, where they need help in reading, and what they are ready to read next- all aligned to age and standards.
  3. The digital library can forecast a toddlers’ growth to see if they are on the right track to become a proficient reader. Parents can catch and remediate reading issues at an early age.

Blended learning with ExtraMarks

The preschool offers a perfect blend of live classes and project-based activities for toddlers. It has a collaboration with ExtraMarks that assists young children to continue learning from home.

The Extra Marks kids learning is built on the unique concept of Tap, Learn and Play.

Here are some benefits of ExtraMarks for pre-schoolers.

  1. Extramarks kids consist of series of games, rhymes, stories and many exciting features that help in developing many skills in the toddlers.
  2. Age-Specific learning content is available in Extra Marks.
  3. The games-based platform of learning activities helps in the development of brain and creativity in young children.
  4. It keeps the young children engaged for hours.

Find out the benefits of online classes for a pre-schooler.

Do you know that in Ahmedabad, Bodakdev School is one of the best preschools and was coincidentally one of the first in the city to start virtual learning for its pre-schoolers?

The school has tech-savvy teachers who prepare each lesson beforehand.

The school with more than 300+ students who are studying in various sections of Playgroup, Nursery, Junior KG, as well as Senior KG, has been helping and guiding children virtually.

Do toddlers enjoy online classes? Is a common question that comes in our minds? Well, actually it is interesting and exciting for toddlers as well as young children.

Each online class is tailored as per the child’s age and requirement. Each day is a new day for the toddlers of each class. Age-appropriate online activities are held every day.

Young children look forward to meeting their friends and teachers virtually. Teachers innovate, reinvent teaching as well as learning methods for the pre-schoolers.

Virtual classes are designed to be a fun and productive manner for toddlers to keep in touch with the outside world. It includes live lessons with the teachers and self-study activities to be completed at home before and after each live class with the help of parents.

Bodakdev School is committed, ensuring that all students in online classes study in a safe and supportive environment, and our platform MS Teams incorporates several features that are designed to keep young children safe while they are online.

Apart from the exciting and engaging classes, there is one significant benefit of the online class for a pre-schooler is developing social skills. Man is a social animal, and he learns by interacting with others.

Online classes of Bodakdev School are the perfect solution for the young children. The daily communication with teachers, talking time, circle time, rhyme time, storytime and expression time help the child interact with teachers and friends.

The virtual classes comprise of many different types of activities that help the children to remain in touch with their friends. Storytelling using puppets, language-based activities, sessions for various activities like dance, music, basic physical exercise or games too, are held.

Creative activities too, are held regularly for young children. Toddlers are taught to use things available at home to make craft items.

In Playgroup, educational content developed by our early educators is shared with each parent. Each activity is designed in a specific area of child development to allow the child to flourish in their overall mental and physical development. Since our experts lead our curriculum for online classes, every online activity is in continuation with previous online class and helps the child to excel in age-appropriate skills. The online classes of Bodakdev are an extension of our curriculum that is used in our physical classes.

The motto of Bodakdev School shall always remain to make childhood learning enjoyable and meaningful for the pre-schoolers of Ahmedabad.

Adapting new styles of virtual teaching makes the sessions enjoyable as well as exciting for the little ones is the main reason why Bodakdev School has become the top online preschool of Ahmedabad.

For more details on our online curriculum for each class, please fill in the online form and our admission team will get back to you or visit www.bodakdevschool.com