Vision: -
Excellence in Education Through Knowledge Management
Mission:-
To Develop a Dynamic School Community of Individuals receptive to change, open to learning in a knowledge sharing environment.
Objectives:-
* To create an environment conducive to learning
* To produce individuals who are creative and innovative * To enable the school community to develop resources which can contribute to K-sharing * To inculcate a passion for life-long learning among the school community * To collaborate with the local community in K-sharing * To nurture individuals who are IT savvy and apply their skills in the teaching-learning process A Traditional School to a Smart School * A paradigm shift * Significant commitment of resources * Appropriate policies, norms and guidelines * Sufficient deployment of information technology * Continuing professional development for teachers Requirements :- 1. Critically thinking workforce 2. Move away from memory-based learning to an education that stimulates thinking, creativity and caring in all students. 3. Caters to individual abilities and learning styles 4. Advances in pedagogy 5. Catalyst: Technology (ICT) supported Steps Being Taken Towards the KBS 1. To ensure that the school is ready to receive the KBS a. Have effective Leaders b. Motivation among teachers to adopt the KBS c. Cooperation and teamwork among teachers 2. Identify problems faced by teachers and students in school 3. Get teachers involved in identifying solutions 4. Develop a shared vision of how to change and what to change to 5. Identify the leaders to manage the change 6. Create solution-based projects that can help improve the teachers and students' performance 7. Conduct a department by department change and let it spread to other departments without pushing from the top 8. Institutionalize success through formal policies, systems and procedures 9. Monitor and adjust strategies in response to problems faced Pedagogy:- a) Make learning more interesting, motivating, stimulating and meaningfulb) Involve the students' minds, spirit and bodies in the learning process c) Build basic skills to prepare students for greater challenges over time d) Cater for a range of needs and capabilities among the students e) Use an appropriate mix of learning strategies to ensure mastery of basic competencies and promote holistic development f) Accommodate individual different learning styles so as to boost performance g) Foster a classroom atmosphere that is compatible with different teaching- learning strategies; such as:- positive teacher interaction with students, and positive students interaction Establishing a Culture of Learning a) Importance of a balance between process and content in learning b) Students take pride in their work c) High expectations for learning and achievement K-Workers a) Information only becomes knowledge when you can utilize it to add or create value for your work and organisation; b) A K-worker has the ability to deal innovatively with the skills, tasks, training or learning acquired and has the know-how to enhance or create new value for his work; c) "Someone who adds value by processing existing information to create new information which can be used to define and solve problems" - says Peter Drucker, 1959 d) A sense of creativity, innovation and critical thinking and, most importantly, "KNOW-HOW" to deal with change and stay ahead. |
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Knowledge-Based School (KBS)
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Principal's Message
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