VALUE-ADDED PROGRAMMES
Adopting unique approaches to education is what we do best at GIIS. Rather than structuring the learning around a strict curriculum, our educators work on value-added programs for students and focus on trying to create learning experiences that prepare students to be happy, balanced, productive and innovative citizens of tomorrow.
Our approach is to initiate specialised programmes across all campuses which empower students and teachers with information, technology and assessment resources.
Functional Classrooms
Project-based learning and activities are a great way for our students to have a hands-on experience. We encourage collaboration, co-operation and research in our educational framework, which teaches our students the art of respecting different opinions and builds on their conflict management and presentation skills.
Project & Activity Based Learning
HeyMath is an online learning app for students to understand Mathematics and familiarise themselves with the joy of learning and hone their mathematical skills from an early age. The tool ensures that every student not just understands the topic but gets to practice it in-depth. The Math learning app helps students overcome their fear of Maths and focus on self-learning for diagnostic testing and identifying learning outcomes.
Reading Program
Our programme is designed as a sequential reading programme that ensures each student completes a set of 5 designated books in a year. This is interspersed with specific related tasks which ultimately culminate into a literary week. This helps students gain the ability to grasp text better and respond appropriately.
STEAM Based Learning & Robotics
Our dedicated focus on Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) helps foster a scientific temperament and give students' minds a logical bent. Robotics and model making lends itself to the applied and real-life problems found in project-based tasks.
Integrated Technology in Learning
We believe in moving with the times, which is why we harness technology to enhance learning. Having software labs in Maths and English are a part of the academic infrastructure, while our emphasis on virtual classes gives students a chance to learn from worldwide experts in the field. Tools like the Google Classroom and platforms like the Khan Academy tutorials are put to best use.
Global Student Exchange (GSE)
Being a technology savvy school, we incorporate this platform in as many projects as possible. One of them is Global Student Exchange, under which students from different countries research on a single idea and present their findings to each other. This engagement, through video-conferencing, teaches students to be good at research, good at presentation and to learn from each other. It is an interactive way to prepare our students for bigger challenges like global competitions.
Individual Development Plan (IDP)
We devised the idea of creating an IDP document for senior students where they engage in setting targets for themselves in consultation with their parents and teachers. A suitable action plan is worked out, and the student takes ownership of his progress with the support of the school.
7S Analysis & Detailed Assessment
Our award-winning proprietary pre-emptive evaluation tool is called 7S. It is a unique analysis that measures the continual improvement of students in 7 areas, phases and sections of learning. In parallel, a topic-wise formative assessment tool, called Detailed Assessment (DA), is implemented which tests a student’s conceptual knowledge and helps identify any learning gaps.
Co-Curricular Activities
CCAs build upon the inherent talents of our students. They help them in recognizing their new hidden talents and make them interested in new activities that open up their minds to new possibilities in the realm of skills-based education.
Talent acquired through proper mentoring and training equips our students in making it big by participation in competitions, talent shows, and events. It also fosters social integration, increases their self-confidence, and teaches them to follow their dreams with passion and confidence.
A wide range of skills-based learning options that we offer make our CCAs very attractive to students. We offer:
Quiz Up Club
General Knowledge Enhancement activities
Art Club
Art Activities
Reading Club
Enhancing speaking skills
Story Enactment Club
Dramatics
Kalidas Theatre Club
Dramatics
Digital Art Club
Art activities on Computers
Intach Club
Activities relative to Heritage/ Social Science
Start-up Club
Entrepreneurial Skill development
These specialised programmes are just a small example of the calibre of innovative thinking that we bring into the educational process for all of our students. Learn more with a tour of your closest GIIS campus, as you consider the best approach to your child’s education.
