Shichida Method – How does it work?
Early childhood learning has a great impact on our later life educational career in particular, and in nearly all, the other fields of life in general, since whatever we learn in our young age stays with us for a long time. For instance, a language can be learnt much easily in the early period of one’s life because in that age, brain absorbs information effortlessly.
Owing to which, a great emphasis is being laid on a useful and productive early education. With passing years, parents, and guardians both seem to be more conscious of this fact due to which most of them utilize all their energies in getting their kids in pre-school academies and institutes.
However, what guarantee do they have if their kids are acquiring the right kind of skills or not. Although, most of the administration of these pre-schools boasts to equip the young children with all the necessary skills, according to their age, yet few actually remain true to their word. What they need to do is to use a method, which enhances and sharpens the innate capabilities of young children rather than just making young kids color their books. A method, which stimulates, and activates the inborn genius of young children, is Shichida method, being introduced by Professor Dr. Makoto Shichida. This method is getting extremely popular all over the world; renowned schools are using it because of its benefits.
The most prominent feature of this Shichida method is the way it manipulates both the right and the left side of brain. Since to make young children efficient learners, we need to stimulate both the right and the left part of brain, which is possible by following this Shichida method. Although, the functions of both right and left part of brain are quite different, but since they are interconnected, we need to use such tools to teach young children, which help in triggering both the sides of brain. However, it seems inevitable to describe the functions of these parts of brain before getting into any further details. The right brain basically process pictures and images, it performs its work within seconds, while the left brain is involved in the processing of sounds and language, and it works slowly as compared to the right brain.
Therefore, in the Shichida method, teachers or instructors use such tools, which trigger both these parts of brain as well as stimulate the five senses of the kids. This eventually helps them develop the capabilities, which according to Dr. Shichida, already exist in their subconscious brain. This method since is one of its kind, it helps in enhancing child’s sensitivity, imagination, and creativity, which will consequently help the child in his/her future learning experience.
Shichida method uses a lot of tools like image play, eye exercises, memory games, picture flash cards, singing, and dancing, story books, playing cards, etc. However, among these the most famous of all these tools is flash cards. The use of these flash cards show how right and left-brain is triggered in one activity, as the instructor while showing the flash card to the child simultaneously says the word. This stimulates both the parts of the brain, one activating the right brain whereas the other one stimulating the left-brain. Moreover, since one flash card is showed to the child in usually less than 1 second, and the cards are not repeated as well, this consequently plays a vital role in developing the child’s photographic memory. This method has proven result owing to which, developed countries like U.S, Australia, Japan, and others boast to use it in their schools, as they believe that the future success of a child largely depends on how well the child’s innate capabilities have been polished.
Some of the most prominent benefits of Shichida method, which are worth mentioning are better memory retention of children, sharp listening skills, good grasp of mathematical concepts of children. Moreover, children who have learnt through this method are more likely to work independently with little or no supervision. Moreover, they show keen interest in learning. All these traits are necessary to succeed in school life, and no wonder, children who have learnt under this method, in the early years of their life, perform much better than the rest of their counterparts.
