The greatest sign of success for a teacher… is to be able to say, “The children are now working as if I did not exist.” Maria Montessori
Self-sufficiency, personal independence, an internal sense of purpose and self-motivated growth are the goals of nurturance at GEMS Education
How do we do it? This calls for an uncompromising commitment to the cause of building future-ready individuals, a relentless spirit of learning, untiring strive for excellence, not forgetting mutual respect and genuine concern for one another at the core of all endeavours.
To tell you about our pedagogy, GEMS has a practical and progressive Early years programme that lays a strong foundation through its curriculum. Every child comes with one's natural psychological, physical, and social faculties and at GEMS we respect the Vygotsky’s Zone of Proximal Development . At GEMS, we give due respect to differences and choices, the gap between what a learner can do independently and what they can do with help. Our education system gently leads the little explorer to unexplored and unfamiliar spaces with the more knowledgeable other , which could be a teacher, a peer , a senior or the parent, so that one grows up to be a well-adjusted individual.
Thinking, exploration and creation is the purpose of all learning in Middle and Senior School. The curriculum is designed to help learners develop critical, creative, and reflective thinking skills. “Surface learning must convert to deeper learning which requires higher levels of thinking, a process where learners construct ideas and develop their conceptual understanding.” Says John Hattie. It encourages students to make connections between their studies and the real world. Our Inquiry-based learning stimulates curiosity and develops research, expression, presentation, and application skills. Annual events like Semicolon, STREAM and CONCORDIA ( MUN) are our student-led didactics that unveil the ingenious inventive propensities and deeper thinking of the young minds.
At GEMS, we build thinking citizens who bring critical, analytical and divergent solutions to the table. In the Secondary years, the curriculum focuses on in-depth learning and skill building to find career paths that match their interests, aptitude, values and goals. Our innovation hubs are buzzing with computational thinking and we are raring to bring solutions to local and global issues.
Exposure to world class universities, GEMS for life programme, profile-building, internships are various ways we empower and equip our Senior Secondary students for their life after school.
Visual and performing arts foster cultural awareness, interpretation of visual information, expands cognitive skills, encourages risk-taking, original thinking, and strengthens problem-solving. Our Annual planner is meticulously planned to align literature and art studies to learning through all age groups.
GEMS International School, Gurugram produces National and International players in sports like swimming ,martial arts, and many other sports every year. We train players in football, cricket , lawn tennis and basketball.
Multiple continuous and comprehensive assessments are done to evaluate our teaching-learning in different spheres through Cambridge Assessment for language, Open Door for Maths and Science, Olympiads and many more.
The 17 SDGs are at the heart of every thinking and the school educates and facilitates to make sustainability one of the core focuses of action. Shaping the youth to think globally and act locally to make them powerful contributors to the community is the larger goal at GEMS. I invite you to be a partner in our journey of a novel way of learning.
