The Oxford Academy is an English medium co-educational (Nursery to VIII) and exclusively for girls (IX-XII) Residential cum day school affiliated to the C.B.S.E, New Delhi.
‘Whole brain development’ means the activation of neurons, both in the left and right lobes of the brain, and the growth of cross-connections between the two lobes through creative networks.
The interplay between right and left lobes of brain is crucial to higher learning and thinking.It provides a greater range and depth of understanding and encourages creative expression and problem solving abilities.Leonarda da vinci , Tagore , Pablo Picasso , Einstein , Shakespeare and Lewis Carol were some of the outstanding humans who were specially talented or multifaceted. They gave the world remarkable things that they visualized, created & left behind for generations to marvel at. Here are some of the characteristics that mark these whole brainess apart.
Now the question is Can everyone aspire to develop the whole brain? Students learn most effectively when they understand what they are learning why they are learning it and how they will be able to use their new learning . Our teachers stimulate the curiosity of their students require them to search for relevant information and ideas and challenge them to use or apply what they discover in new context on in new ways . They look for opportunities to involve students directly in decisions relating to their own learning . This encourages them to see what they doing as relevant and to take greater ownership of their own learning . For our juniors we provide a distinct phase of learning signals as an approach that reports to the needs of young adolescent students. We are responding to the challenge of reconceptualising their work with early adolescents through six principles-