Our students will gain knowledge in: Higher Order Thinking Skills – Students gain real understanding of each subject they take. This enables them to not only retain and apply but also create new knowledge and ideas from this understanding.
- Articulate thoughts and ideas effectively using oral, written and nonverbal communication skills in a variety of forms and contexts
- Listen effectively to decipher meaning, including knowledge, values, attitudes and intentions
- Use communication for a range of purposes (e.g. to inform, instruct, motivate and persuade)
- Utilize multiple media and technologies, and know how to judge their effectiveness a priori as well as assess their impact Communicate effectively in diverse environments(including multi-lingual)
- Demonstrate ability to work effectively and respectfully with diverse teams
- Exercise flexibility and willingness to be helpful in making necessary compromises to accomplish a common goal
- Assume shared responsibility for collaborative work, and value the individual contributions made by each team member
- Reason Effectively : Use various types of reasoning (inductive, deductive, etc.) as appropriate to the situation
- Use Systems Thinking : Analyze how parts of a whole interact with each other to produce overall outcomes in complex systems
- Make Judgments & Decisions : Effectively analyze and evaluate evidence, arguments, claims and beliefs analyze and evaluate major alternative points of view, Synthesize and make connections between information and arguments, Interpret information and draw conclusions based on the best analysis. Reflect critically on learning experiences and processes
- Problem Solving : Solve different kinds of non-familiar problems in both conventional and innovative ways, Identify and ask significant questions that clarify various points of view and lead to better solutions
- Think Creatively
- Use a wide range of idea creation techniques (such as brainstorming).
- Create new and worthwhile ideas (both incremental and radical concepts)
- Elaborate, refine, analyze and evaluate their own ideas in order to improve and maximize creative efforts
- Work Creatively with Others
- Develop, implement and communicate new ideas to others effectively
- Be open and responsive to new and diverse perspectives; incorporate group input and feedback into the work
- Demonstrate originality and inventiveness in work and understand the real world limits to adopting new ideas
- View failure as an opportunity to learn; understand that creativity and innovation is a long-term, cyclical process of small successes and frequent mistakes
- Implement Innovations Act on creative ideas to make a tangible and useful contribution to the field in which the innovation will occur. Learning for life and work connects strongly through the Core Values with communities and practice beyond the classroom like care, respect, integrity, responsibility, harmony, compassion, humility, resilience, self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship management, decision making, global awareness, civic literacy and cross cultural skills
The Learning Environment is stimulating and sustainable, is supportive and productive to the way children learn with positive relationships with all the adults, enabling environments which includes technology and strong parent school partnerships.
Students’ needs, backgrounds, perspectives and interests are reflected in the core learning program which results in holistic child development and learning. Students are challenged and supported to develop deep levels of thinking and communication and application which results in them being active learners for life and virtuous global citizens.