BANGALORE: Claping games are generally looked upon as child’s play, and teaching would perhaps be the last thing one would associate with it.
But there is much more to these clapping games that have been handed down over several generations.
At a workshop organised by the Teacher Foundation on Tuesday, Jenny Mosley, a school trainer from England, said: “The traditional clapping games can also act as energisers while teaching.” She said that clapping games help release of oxytocin, a hormone that stimulates brain activity.
Mosley demonstrated the role clapping games have in schools with a game.“Touch plays an important role in the development of intelligence of a child,” Jenny said. She said that such activities ensure that children don’t lose concentration.
She cited a recent study which showed that girls have an average attention span of 15 minutes, while boys have an average attention span of 6 minutes.
The workshop also demonstrated ‘circle time,’ an approach where the whole school sits in a circle once per week to learn relationship skills, and to “explore issues relating to personal, social, moral and health education”.
