Showing posts with label international school. Show all posts
Showing posts with label international school. Show all posts

Friday, 28 April 2017

5 Best Ideas to Improve your School



In order to improve the school, every educator can embrace two goals - continuous improvement and wringing the utmost value from every penny in the school budget. However, the said two tasks need not be reciprocally inclusive.

Following are the 5 proven ways from which higher education providers can explore free tools so as to reexamining staffing. This will also help you to improve the teaching and learning procedure while keeping a close eye on the bottom line of your school values.


Improve school life - image source : Greenwood High


1.     Establish Professional Learning Communities:

Professional Learning Communities create the opportunities for continuous staff development by emphasizing the establishment of a shared vision, peer observation, instructional collaboration, collective learning, and action research. And the best part is that it’s free. The best schools in Bangalore have successfully engaged in Professional Learning Communities to address key issues like meeting rural students’ needs, establishing effective grading practices, and working with at-risk students.

2.     Partner with Researchers:

Around the country, top international schools in Bangalore are working to develop innovative classroom lessons, test new educational technologies, and uncover effective instructional practices. By partnering with local university faculty and other researchers, teachers may get to pilot a new math curriculum that emphasizes social justice, try out a revolutionary iPhone application, or experiment with using video games to enhance content area learning.

3.     Encourage Teachers to Use Social-Networking Sites:

In schools, a lot of the discussion about social networking focuses on how students of international schools in Bangalore are using (or misusing) popular sites like Facebook or Twitter. But social-networking sites can be incredibly useful for teachers, too. But social-networking sites aren’t just about linking people to resources.

4.     Make Collaboration a Priority.

In theory, the best international schools in Bangalore want teachers to collaborate with one another to develop lessons, address individual students’ learning needs, and share ideas and resources. Most teachers have little time within their one working school day to do so. In elementary schools with 20-minute lunch periods or high schools with five minutes between classes, there simply isn’t enough time to have meaningful (let alone ongoing) discussions. To address that, administrators are rethinking how to structure the school day to value teachers’ collaborative work and professional dialogue.

5.     Use Free Digital Tools:

There are quite a few audio-editing software programs. Students can use these to create their own podcasts and public service announcements.

Conclusion:

By following all the above-mentioned tips, schools can make their identity in the field of the education sector.

Sunday, 19 February 2017

Bangalore needs International Schools!



International schools are the new rage these days. May be It’s an integral part of the new age upper middle class dream in India or aggression of western civilization, but this rage is never gonna die soon. Now, the question is, is it really necessary to put your child into an expensive education system? If you compare the international schools in Bangalore with other normal schools, you would notice an sky-high price difference. Is it worth spending that much of money? My answer would be yes, since I carefully evaluated the quality of education systems in these schools. Most of these top international schools in Bangalore are also some of the best school in Bangalore. Since, the whole education system is so practical in these schools that they want their students mostly to stay in their campuses itself. Their schooling does not end with 8-4 regular academics sessions, but it goes beyond the classroom. And that’s the reason most of them are International boarding schools indeed. I have personally figured out four distinctive benefits provided by these schools below.

- They take special care to develop a Child's inner abilities
- A lot of scope for extra-curricular activities
- Curriculum is internationally recognized
- They usually follow very practical form of education systems unlike normal schools which is kinda repetitive

‘Learning that goes beyond the classroom’

- It’s a very important aspect since this factor keeps the interest of students into academics. Only books and assignments make them lose their interests, what do you think? For example, the best international schools in Bangalore have mandatory sports or recreational hours after the school followed by a group discussion on a particular topic. Now, have you wondered why it’s necessary? Let me answer you- a regular 4-5 hours of classes can make students tired and lethargic. If they goes into any recreational activity or get to play any game of their choice, it breaks the monotony of the classroom. Now, getting into a group discussion right after these activities can give them enough space to use their creativity. Our creativity shines the best when we get to do something that we like to do. Now, I am sure not many regular schools would take that much effort to put students into different processes.

At state funded schools, there’s no plausibility to give importance to each and every understudy. Every student goes through the same process and in the long run their actual talent gets a backseat in their career. There is no innovation since the instructors themselves are bound to teach only within the parameters of defined rules and regulations. A group discussion after the regular school hours would be a punishment for the students! At good international schools in Bangalore, they have this standard known as ‘no child left behind’, that clearly aims at concentrating upon each and every student in a classroom. They held special session with students and parents about the progress and based on the excellency of each and every student, they even provide career guidance as well. Also, you would find it surprising as the international boarding schools have very small classrooms. They are in no way in a hurry to fill them. But rather concentrate on each and every student in a small classroom.
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