Kheldai Sikdai Classroom is a project that enables children to experience learning through play in their classrooms. It brings joyful, hands-on, and engaging learning, especially in schools with limited resources. Through this project, teachers are supported to deliver lessons where children can explore, build, test ideas, collaborate, and connect learning to real-life experiences, ensuring that learning remains joyful, actively engaging, iterative, meaningful, and socially interactive.
Learning Outcomes
What it does/ How it functions
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Teaching Community of Play (TeaCoP)
A certified year-long training course that helps teachers integrate playful and hands-on learning methods into their teaching practice. The course follows a Learn, Do, Reflect process where teachers participate in sessions facilitated by experts, deliver hands-on learning lessons to their students using the learning resources, and reflect on their classroom experiences, sharing insights and feedback. -
Learning Resources
Development and distribution of learning materials, student and teacher guides, and access to digital platforms that support play-based learning -
Collaboration
Partnership with local governments and school leadership to ensure long-term effectiveness and sustainability of the project.
Testimonials
Impact through their eyes
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The Kheldai Sikdai program has impacted positively in students. Activities have improved cooperation, self-confidence, expressive skills, and the ability to present learned concepts. These child-centered activities also foster important life skills such as problem-solving, patience, discipline, ethics, and responsibility.
Students have learned time management, communication, and teamwork while facing challenges, finding solutions, and supporting peers. By solving problems without getting discouraged, they build a foundation for success and develop an understanding of the importance of discipline.
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Students who struggle with academics, who score low grades, and hardly engage in regular classes, are the ones who actively engage and excel in the PEBL hands-on lessons. This has made me question the effectiveness of our teaching methods. I have realized that any child can learn if the method is suitable.
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In our second PEBL session, we learned to make a catapult. It was very exciting to design and build a catapult. I felt very happy when I successfully made a slingshot-style catapult. I enjoyed the whole process and wanted to make a catapult that could throw more than one stone bullet at a time. After multiple tries, I was able to come up with a catapult that could throw multiple stone bullets at the same time.
