Overview
Education is meant to build. Build, not just as an end, but also as a means to that end. This idea clearly challenges the age-old thought of a child coming in as a “clean-slate”. Every learner at every stage comes in with a set of experiences and stories. Vandya has a pedagogy that does not outrightly negate their prior experiences. Much rather, we appropriately build upon, challenge, and nurture what they come in with. This makes sure that the child is as much a participant in the learning process rather than just being a recipient. Such a learning process that is based on construction constantly evolves and asks the the following questions to stay relevant and child-centric:
- What should we continue doing?
- What should we abandon?
- What needs to be creatively invented afresh?
TEACHING LEARNING ENVIRONMENT
- Recognizing learners as the core participants, encouraging their active engagement, and developing in them an understanding of their own activity as learners (“self-regulation”)
- Being founded on the social nature of learning and actively encouraging group work and well-organised cooperative learning
- Employing learning professionals who are highly attuned to learners’ motivations and the key role played by emotions in achievement
- Being acutely sensitive to individual differences among the learners, including the type and extent of their prior knowledge
- Devising programs that demand hard work and that challenge everyone without excessive overloading them
- Operating with clarity of expectations and using assessment strategies consistent with these expectations, with a strong emphasis on formative feedback to support learning
- Strongly promoting “horizontal connectedness” across areas of knowledge and subjects as well as with the community and the wider world.
TRAINING & DEVELOPMENT
Vandya International School is partners with the top organizations and educational leaders to conduct regular teacher education and educational leadership workshops for our educators. The organisations also jointly conduct training and upgradation programs for the schools of Northeast in India. The endeavour ensures 20 hrs of specialised and subject-based training from the most well known national and international facilitators from their areas of expertise.
01 Peer Learning
We learn on the ground and from our fellows. As each classroom and each student is different, so are our methods. This makes sharing of best practices a mandate. From Classroom observations to a Best Practices session last Saturday of every month, the Peer Learning Program makes it easy for the entire teaching community to learn and grow.
02 Conferences and Outreach
Exchange of ideas is a powerful medium to initiate thought and subsequent actions. Teachers and educators learn by listening to others and participating in dialogues. The dialogues can, in the least, put up the right questions, and at their best, can start movements. Hence, VIS encourages and sponsors its teachers to travel to various conferences and outreach programs to bring about the right difference and development.
03 Training Programs
Vandya International School is a partner school with the Aditya Birla Education Academy, which conducts regular teacher education and educational leadership workshops for our educators. The two organisations also jointly conduct training and upgradation programs for the schools of Northeast in India. The endeavour ensures 20 hrs of specialised and subject-based training from the most well known national and international facilitators from their areas of expertise.
Admissions are open for 2027-2028
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