An eye-popping ‘3-D or 4-D Art Illustration’ on the street, a mind-blowing invention of ‘Traffic & Emission Control Device,’ unbelievable ‘haute-cuisine prodigies’ are just a few of the multiple brainchildren of the young minds. No denying, children are born innovators. Each child inside him carries some amount of creativity, howsoever little or in whatsoever form.

‘Innovation’ derived from the Latin word ‘innovatio’ means a new idea, a new method, or a new device. Wikipedia suggests that the focusing element here is ‘newness.’ It is not always and necessarily in technical areas; instead, innovation can take place in varied areas ranging from artworks to business models.

Today, the globe has shrunk to the extent that a child knitting dreams and weaving inventions in his head, sitting in a remote village, can think of connecting to the geniuses and the experts of the particular field via technology. We, at Dayawati Modi Academy, ranked among the top CBSE schools in Meerut, truly reckon that the little these young innovators expect from us is just a push, the motivation, and our backing. Need of the hour is to promote and propel these intrinsic potentials of our children. This task has been traditionally viewed as the sole responsibility of the education imparting institutes. However, we at Dayawati Modi Academy believe that if parents endeavor, in tandem with us, then, together we, as their mentors, and you parents, as their loved ones, can kindle their creative nuclei much easily.

So here we have some recommendations in this regard that you could utilize or follow in order to augment the creative quotient of your little ones. Read on.

• First of all, let them be free-spirited individuals. Do not bother or fuss too much about their achievements. Let them enjoy the ‘process’ of whatever activity they want to indulge in, instead of crying and nagging all the time about the final output.

• Fulfill the basic requirements of an innovative mind. For example, unstructured play, a place for painting, a room for dress-ups, or a corner for building Legos. After all, space and time are the most basic foundation stones for fueling innovation and creativity in children.

• Instead of gifting them lavish toys and high-end clothing, try providing them with items like art supplies, costumes supplements, dummy cameras, building blocks, etc., and just sit and note what they do with them.

• Stimulate in them the behavior of reaching at multiple solutions, in multiple ways, to the same problem

• Curb the screen time and the duration of watching TV, and instead, prompt them to take up reading, participate in dramatics, learn to draw/ paint or enact a play. Activities like these help keep the natural curiosity and innovative instinct of children alive.

We, at Dayawati Modi Academy, firmly believe that independency and inquisitiveness are part and parcel of an innovative soul. Hence, give them complete freedom to pursue their instincts and explore their ideas. Be it coloring within/outside the boundary lines or coming up/failing to come up with interesting science models – just avoid being an instructor and a boss all the time!

At Dayawati Modi Academy, one of the top CBSE schools in Meerut, we have seen that children come up with the best of their creative outputs when they are given the freedom, provided with the motivation, and endowed with the opportunities. This is why we have developed an overall motivational environment at our school to encourage our pupils to ignite their creative nerves and cells and identify their true selves.

Our academic interventions are modulated from time to time to suit their ingenious horizons. We follow a pedagogy that is student-centric and not teacher-centric, thus providing enough chance, time, and space to each of our students to learn, improve, and grow.

The education imparting system and the teaching methodologies have been tailored to propel the natural innovativeness of young minds. Furthermore, pretend-play techniques are adopted, which foster their innovative instincts. Lastly, great independence is bestowed on children for reasoning and problem-solving.

The result of our endeavors can be witnessed in the great academic and non-academic achievements that our pupils have been consistently registering.  And while accomplishing great student outcomes is indeed a matter of pride for us, what is even more important is that we, as the mentors of young minds, have remained successful in boosting and fueling the natural innovative instinct of our budding geniuses!