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GEMS Curriculum

 

At GIS we offer world-class education centered on the CBSE curriculum. Our curriculum is designed to foster inquiry through thematic, experiential and project-based learning. Teaching and learning is designed for exploration, creativity, independent thinking and experimentation. It is woven into an integrated approach to provide meaningful learning experiences and establish cross-curricular links. At GEMS International school, learning is planned across the domains defined by Bloom: 

  • Cognitive
  • Affective
  • Psychomotor

This will lead to acquisition of skills in the Languages, Arts, Sciences, Mathematics, Social Studies, Visual and Performing Art forms, Physical Education and Health. In addition to these Theatre in education and Design Thinking also strengthen language, and enhance psychomotor as well as cognitive skills.

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Our Curriculum aims to:
  • Encourage students to think critically and solve problems though project and theme based learning.
  • Incorporate STREAM, i.e. integrated learning of Science -Technology -Reading -Engineering -Arts -Mathematics (we have moved from STEM to STREAM education)
  • Seamlessly integrate art in the curriculum to enhance the appreciation for aesthetics visual and performing arts.
  • Foster holistic development through sports and HPE, i.e. Health and Physical Education.
  • Offer activities for curricular and co-curricular enrichment via clubs and work education.
  • Develop ‘Reflective Learning Practices’ for students to assess and understand their strengths and work on areas to support self-learning and personal development through Student-Led Conferences.
  • Incorporate the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals in order to make our students Global Citizens.
  • Engage students in addressing real-world problems and issues important to humanity to lead change.
  • Provide differentiated teaching-learning activities to personalise learning.
  • Provide opportunities to connect globally with the GEMS network of schools to facilitate collaborative learning beyond boundaries for students and teachers.
  • Use pedagogical practices like Design Thinking and Theatre in education and stories to create an engaging learning experience.
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Key Features of
GEMS International School
  • Individualized attention – low student-teacher ratio
  • Stimulating learning environment
  • Emphasis on all-round development and co-curricular activities
  • Theatre in Education
  • Continuous Professional Development
  • Integration of ICT and Innovation in Curriculum
  • Sound Pastoral Care
  • Parental Engagement Programmes
  • Eco-Literacy Curriculum
  • Student Led Conferences and 360 degree assessment approach
  • Oxford Reading Tree Programme
  • Emotional Literacy integration across the curriculum
  • Cambridge English Assessments
  • Clubs such as TED-Ed club, Quill Club, MUN Club, Organic Farming, Literary Luminaries Eco-Literacy and Fairtrade initiatives
  • Social-Emotional Literacy
  • International Benchmarking Assessments (IBT) for Baseline and Endline external evaluation
  • International Benchmarking Assessments by Japanese Benesse
  • OpenDoor external Mastery Assessments for Science and Mathematics
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Remote Learning
Model with proven success

The GEMS Remote learning model helps us continue uninterrupted teaching-learning during the pandemic. Post-pandemic remote learning has become a powerful tool to ensure uninterrupted education today for all emergency scenarios. 
 

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Learning
Personalised for each learner

Our children develop social, emotional and creative intelligences. These include some of the seminal skills this generation growing up amidst the fourth Industrial revolution will require. They are growing up in a transformative age of extraordinary creativity, innovation and originality. They cannot live with skills of repetition, regimentation, memory and cyclical coordination. They need to have human skills that machines despite Artificial Intelligence will not be able to emulate. Under Social Intelligence they learn empathy, perceptiveness, collaboration, negotiation, problem-solving, conflict resolution, persuasive communication, sharing and respect for others’ perceptions and objective acceptance of varied points of view. They would urgently require creative intelligences that urge them to question and re-think, that urge them to innovate, to enquire and think deeply and thus be passionate problem-solvers. They would need perseverance amidst diverse perspectives in a confluence of the local and global communities. 
Some Learners need more personalised one-to-one support from the teacher to fill prior knowledge gaps / misconception
 

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Some Children Need Special Needs Attention: 

  • Individual education Plans
  • Accommodation Plans

Gifted and Talented Learners Need:

  • Variety : freedom of choice
  • Enrichment or Accelerated learning
  • Independence to study and learn the way they can learn best (strong metacognition)
  • Opportunity to question, think critically, evaluate and create
  • Opportunity to dig deeper (more depth)
  • Opportunity to enlarge the canvas (broad curriculum)

The capacity of every child present in the classroom is not the same. While learning may feel like an enjoyable endeavour to some, others may struggle with some concepts. Just like our GEMSites, GEMS teachers, or rather facilitators of learning, are also enablers. They understand and genuinely empathise with the individual struggles of students and ensure that each one actually thrives in one's uniqueness.For many parents, a formal identification of a specific learning difficulty is a turning point and can be a huge setback / even a huge relief. At GEMS Education, we believe every child has the right to  quality education.

That’s why when your child attends a GEMS School, they can access a whole spectrum of help and support to address individual learning needs.

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Overcoming all the hurdles and struggles is extremely important to give an enhanced learning experience to each child. Ensuring all children get a successful initiative and the right kind of opportunity to quality education is the primary task of a mentor. Our continuous Education research backed by the incessant hard work, expertise, knowledge and experience of over 20000 education professionals informs our teaching and learning practices at the GEMS schools.
We proactively promote inclusion by encouraging students to respect and appreciate uniqueness in each of their classmates. We expect them to collaborate and cooperate with each other so that they can contribute constructively to the learning community and the community at large. We believe in identifying the innate potential of each child and honing these abilities, while looking for the hidden interests of the child. This also means that we hold all our students to high standards of excellence and achievement.
Thus, we enhance learning with education that is re-imagined to meet the changing needs of a world dramatically revolutionised by automation and technology. It has radically changed the way we work, socialise, play or communicate. This generation will need a different kind of resilience and originality faced with the growing challenges to the very meaning / idea of being human. GEMS students move beyond the classroom to connect with and make a difference to the world around them in manifold ways. Thus, learning at GEMS is an experience in leading change.

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New Ways to Learn

We are always looking to find new and creative ways to stimulate learning and continually striving to improve the way we teach. Our emphasis on inquiry-based approaches, both within and beyond traditional learning environments, means we’re quick to implement new technologies wherever we believe they will be beneficial; we are looking to develop well-rounded students with 21st century skills who are ready for an increasingly globalised world.  At GEMS International School, Gurgaon we benefit from best-practice teaching methods shared by professional educators all over the world but some of our freshest ideas come from listening to our students and their families. We make it our business to pass on what we learn to others because our ultimate goal is to provide an exceptional education to as many as possible.