The innovative curriculum for the Pre-Primary is to bring about the objective by reinforcing concepts, ideas, skills and activities at this stage not only from the teacher’s point of view but also for the parents to comprehend what is being done in the classroom.
The main thrust of our curriculum is based on innovative and creative activities in and outside the classroom. Children love the curriculum which is different and packed with exciting things to do, experience and learn. We have a well-planned pre-school program which consists of the following integrated project based activities:
WELL PLANNED PRE-SCHOOL PROGRAM:
TEACHING METHODOLOGY/ EFFECTIVE INNOVATIVE TEACHING:
The biggest challenge any teacher faces is capturing the students’ attention and putting across ideas in such a way that it stays with them long after they have left the classroom. For this to happen effective innovative ideas are implemented for better classroom experiences. Teachers reinvent their teaching methods and make their classes interesting. We take 5 projects per year that is the base of our curriculum. We keep on introducing new projects taking along the previous ones. Listed below are some of the strategies we follow.
- CREATIVE TEACHING-Taking the help of creative tools to stimulate creativity, we include playful games or visual exercises that excite the young minds and capture their interest. Also, this encourages them to come up with their ideas and gives them the freedom to explore.
- BRAINSTORMING- These sessions are a great way to get the creative juices flowing with multiple brains focusing on one single idea to get numerous ideas involving everyone into discussions.
- REAL WORLD LEARNING– We link our lessons to real world learning infusing real world experiences. Relating and demonstrating to real life situations makes material easy to understand and learn. It sparks their interests and makes the sessions all the more interesting.
- CLASSES OUTSIDE THE CLASSROOM- Some lessons are best learnt, when they are taught outside the classroom in the lap of nature. Children find it fresh and exciting and the learning remains forever with them.
- ROLE PLAY- Teaching through role play, story dramatisation, dance, music, rhymes are a great way to make children step out of their comfort zone and develop their inter personal skills.
- SUBJECT INTEGRATION- Our curriculum is structured to nourish the whole being-the mind, heart and body. So all the activities are creatively balanced with the subjects to bring about the best learning.
- ASSESSMENT OF LEARNING- It involves working with range of available evidences throughout the process of activities that enables the teacher to check the child’s performance and keep the track of one’s progress, identify the learning gaps, their strengths and weaknesses, anecdotes and help them overcome using various remedial strategies.
English, Hindi, Mathematics, Science, Social Science, Computer Education and an optional language (Marathi).
Assessment-Evaluations are conducted according to uniform system of assessment guidelines by CBSE. Assessment will be indicated in grades according to an eight point grading scale for scholastic area and a three point grading scale for co-scholastic areas.
Scholastic Assessment (Subjective)-The assessment structure and examination for classes I to VIII comprises of two terms Term-1 and Term-2
Co-Scholastic Assessment-Students will be assessed term-wise on a 3-point grading scale (A=Outstanding, B=Very Good and C=Fair).The aspect of regularity, sincere participation, output and teamwork is the generic criteria for grading in the following co-scholastic activities:
- Work Education – Work Education refers to skill-based activities resulting in goods or services useful to the community
- Art Education (Visual & Performing Art)
- Health and Physical Education (Sports/Martial Arts/Yoga etc.)
CURRICULUM AREAS AT SECONDARY LEVEL:
For the purpose of fostering core competence in learners, the curriculum encompasses six major learning areas, which are: Languages, Humanities, Mathematics, Science, Health and Physical Education, Performing and Visual arts. It refers to the content of learning, not the titles of subjects.
Major Contents of Each Curriculum Learning Area in Secondary Classes.
- Languages include Hindi, English, (detailed in Curriculum Volume II) and focus on listening, speaking, reading and writing skills, along with developing effective communicating proficiencies.
- Humanities (Geography, History, Economics and Political Science) include the learning of history and culture, geographical environment, global institutions, constitutional values and norms, politics, economy, interpersonal and societal interactions, civic responsibilities, and the incorporation of the above-mentioned learning into one’s life.
- Performing and Visual Arts (Dance, Drama, Music, Drawing, Painting, Crafts and Sculpture) include, instruction in these arts, aiming to help learners cultivate an interest and appreciation for arts and encourage them to enthusiastically participate in related activities, thus promoting abilities such as imagination, creativity, valuing arts, and the cultural heritage.
- Science (Biology, Chemistry, Physics ) include gaining knowledge about matter and energy, nature, the environment, technology, breakthroughs in science. It will focus on knowledge and skills to develop a scientific attitude, use and application of such knowledge and skills to improve the quality of life and further use this learning to analyse, evaluate, synthesise, create, invent and discover.
- Mathematics includes acquiring the concepts related to number sense, operation sense, computation, measurement, geometry, probability and statistics, the skill to calculate and organise, and the ability to apply this knowledge and acquired skills in their daily life. It also includes understanding of the principles of reasoning and problem solving.
- Health and Physical Education focuses on the learning for holistic development, both mental and physical. Understanding the importance of physical fitness, health, well-being and the factors that contribute to them. Focus of this curriculum is on helping learners develop a positive attitude and commitment to lifelong, healthy active living and the capacity to live satisfying, productive lives with the help of proper health management, sports, yoga, fitness and lifestyle choices.