AMRENDRA PANDEY
What Our Director Says
Dear Students, Parents, and Well-wishers,
Inspiring Growth and Excellence – From the Director's Desk at GK Memorial School Technology has played a major role in driving the pace of change and students are having to deal with enormous increments of change. Students know many things that their parents and other adults in the society do not know as they have extended opportunities to learn and use technologies that were not available when their parents grew up. Digital learners or NetGen’ers, are accustomed to multi-tasking – simultaneously listening to music, talking on the cell-phone and using the computer. A hybrid classroom is one way of engaging these learners to utilize available resources for their advantage. As a famous philosopher and educator Dr. John Dewey has said “Schooling should be considered life itself – and be immediately relevant at least part of the time”.
The demography of our school demands us to respond to the needs of the culturally diverse student as well as the poverty-impacted student. And that makes us take a resolve to adhere to RTE guidelines.
Successful reforms require collaborators who are willing and are able to coordinate their efforts. Teachers tend to work in isolation and hence feel the need to develop their expertise by themselves. In contrast, most progress in world comes from working in teams. Forming teams that break the typical isolation of teaching brings in great power and that’s where distributed expertise teams are important for all aspects of educational reforms.
Continuous Improvement (CI) is our key focus area and we thrive to make all stakeholder a lifelong learner. Though teacher selection is a rigorous process, teacher training will be a top priority.
Our biggest challenge is to make progress visible. The school is developing multiple ways to make the quality of student and teacher learning visible on a timely basis. It is critical for students to learn with understanding – so it is necessary that assessments tap understanding rather than focus primarily on superficial characteristics. The school will create communities of professionals who continually refine their ideas to assess learning and why.
Best wishes
