The Mayo College has mandated an experience based curriculum following the CBSE pattern for The Mayoor School, Bhopal.
The school curriculum has been developed in partnership with iDiscoveri Education. Called iDiscoveri XSeed, the program ‘Raises the Bar’ on teaching and learning in all classrooms. It ensures that each concept is dealt for each child by each teacher in a way that builds true understanding.
It works by arousing the child’s innate curiosity to learn and discover. We use theme based learning (upto class 3) and project based learning thereafter. This way children get to apply their knowledge which not only cements understanding but also builds confidence.
The curriculum ensures that learning requirements prescribed by NCERT and CBSE are met. In addition it has also been seenforced with benchmarking with International boards and considering how children learn best. The teachings of leading education philosophers like Piaget, Montessori, Howard Gardner and Sri Aurobindo are reflected in the curriculum and teacher development program that go hand in hand as part of this program.
Lastly, a minutely planned assessment framework helps teachers and parents keep track of the child’s learning, his/ her areas of special interest and areas where more inputs are required.
With this approach we are confident that each student of ours will emerge as a confident life long learner. The curriculum at The Mayoor School is designed to maximise each child's integration into society. Incorporating the fundamentals of CBSE board and the national curriculum framework, the curriculum is developed keeping the child at the centre.
Contributions from educationists, naturalists, Child Psychologists, sports persons and artists have rendered it right and empowering. Being evolutionary in nature, it continues to grow.
A HEALTHY MIND
The curriculum at TMS is designed to maximise each child’s integration into society. Incorporating the fundamentals of CBSE Board and the National Curriculum Framework, the curriculum is developed keeping the child at the centre. Contributions from educationists, naturalists, child psychologists, sports persons and artists have rendered it right and empowering. Being evolutionary in nature, it continues to grow. The school will offer subjects of Science, Humanities and Commerce in Senior classes.
LANGUAGE
The ultimate purpose of teaching languages is to enable the student to communicate effectively and comprehend efficiently. The Languages Faculty endeavour to inculcate a love for literature among the students while encouraging creative writing skills. Oral and aural skills are encouraged through public speaking and read-aloud sessions. The desired outcome of our efforts will be to enable a learner to think in the language s/he uses for communication and to comprehend and compose fluently in it.
The experiential model of pedagogy brings in the dynamics of role-play, visits by literary persons of distinction and interactions with them, formation of clubs and societies and a student-managed publications department.
The medium of instruction is English . However, students are encouraged to learn at least 2 more languages. Hindi is taught compulsorily up to class 10. Sanskrit along with a foreign language is taught through classes 5 to 8.
NUMERACY
Our earnest effort with regard to the learning of Mathematics is to integrate math into the child’s daily life. Students and teachers together arrive at the realisation that math is all around us and not isolated to mechanical operations undertaken in the confines of a class-room. Students are encouraged to engage in meaningful materials and processes to be able to own clear concepts of the subject. Spatial ability, reasoning, interpreting data, making estimates, finding patterns are some of the skills our students are expected to internalise during their education at The Mayoor.
Mathematics manipulatives will be used extensively to understand complex formulae and their applications
SCIENCE
We strive to appeal to the innate curiosity of the student . The teaching of science will encourage students to discern opportunities to inquire and discover phenomena of the real world. They learn to inquire, put forward hypotheses and through experimentation and observation they will either prove or reject the hypothesis. The development of a scientific temper will be the objective of the teaching of science in the school.
In the Primary and Pre-primary grades, the science curriculum clusters around Environmental Studies, Life and processes and the Physical World. The CBSE curriculum for Science and Technology is followed by bifurcating the discipline into Physics, Chemistry and Biology in the senior classes.
HUMANITIES
The discipline of Humanities covers a wide assortment of subjects -- from philosophy to architecture to information management and all that lies in between. The thread of commonality among all these seemingly diverse subjects is the pluralisms of life and living. While technologies change the way we live, the humanities teach us to best adapt to the changes. This gives rise to the social and intellectual movements that the world has witnessed in every age.
Our purpose in teaching Humanities is to help our students evolve as confident citizens of the world -- sensitive, informed and assertive. In the primary classes the studies include knowledge of History, Civics, Geography and Environmental Studies. At the Secondary level (class 10) Economics will also add to the list. Upon reaching the Senior Secondary Level (11 and 12) Psychology, Sociology and Political Science will be added.
TECHNOLOGY
The students at The Mayoor School use computer technology extensively and intensively both as teaching aids and as learning tools. They aspire to be users as well as technologists. Staff and students both function with familiarity in a technology-enabled environment. Students are encouraged to undertake desk-top publishing and visual media for creating presentations. The computer syllabus prescribed by the CBSE will guide the curriculum.
Teachers use e-learning modules to teach and reinforce complicated concepts. School systems are managed by software applications. Internet enabled resource- centres are available to staff and also to students under adult supervision.
THE INSTRUCTION
Teachers encourage students to map their learnings and appreciate differences in learning styles. Experience-based teaching learning and a focus on multiple intelligences is be the norm. The instructional environment focuses on integration of knowledge, development of creative and independent thinking, problem solving and performance skills.
THE ASSIGNMENTS
Home assignments are for independent practice. Family projects make for parents and teachers jointly sharing the privilege of teaching the child. A carefully devised home assignment policy and timetable reduces stress and reinforces learnings from school in the home.
THE CLASS-ROOM
Small students strength in the class-room is expected to benefit from the greater attention by teachers. The classroom at The Mayoor Scool is envisioned as a collaborative knowledge centre. Cooperation more than competition drives the students.
EDUCATION WITHOUT BORDERS
The international dimension of the school is expected to grow with bilateral exchange programmes for students and teachers. Memberships of international forums will further enrich the exchanges.
THE WAY AHEAD…
Career guidance at the Secondary and Senior Secondary levels will be available to students. Meanwhile, all opportunities for acquiring intellectual, psychological and social equipment will be presented to the student. |
