Innovation Centre

Platform

for

Creativity, Critical Thinking, Collaborated Effort (C3)

VISION

To identify the inherent potential in every student, Inspire, Motivate and Nurture them to be competitive in the transforming ‘Smart Environment’ .

Mission1 Enhance thinking and communication skills (both written& oral)

2 Promote and Pursue

- Design Thinking - Team work/collaboration

3) Apply knowledge of Math, English Science, Civics etc., learnt to deal/meet real world challenges 4) Encourage /Source collaborative projects to Explore /Exploit creativity 5) Enable Project-Based Learning, cooperative learning

6) Technology adoption

‘Design and Innovation’

Design by its own nature is creative, collaborative, multidisciplinary

The methodology of how design is learnt by hands on experience can make a difference to the process of learning different subjects in schools.

Design process involves knowledge gathering, analysis, discovery, and conceptualization resulting in a problem solving activity and this in turn leads to experiential learning.

Design can bring sensitivity and awareness to Indian ‘Arts, Crafts, Culture and Environment’.

Design can help students develop values, attitudes, sensorial skills and critical thinking. Design can make the students realize their creative and innovative potentials.

Design and Innovation can make a big difference to the expected growth of creative needs in our country.

Philosophy

Design thinking should be integrated into the school curriculum at different stages .

Design should be used as a medium to teach subjects.

Design as a method for teaching? or Teaching Design as a subject?

This will enable students to develop values, attitudes, sensorial skills and critical thinking.

(The intention is to offer avenues that are creative and innovative)

Big 10 Ideas for Better Schools

Improving Education through InnovationStudents:1. Engage: Project-Based Learning2. Connect: Integrated Studies3. Share: Cooperative Learning4. Expand: Comprehensive Assessment

Teachers:5. Coach: Intellectual and Emotional Guide6. Learn: Teaching as Apprenticeship

Schools:7. Adopt: Technology8. Reorganize: Resources

Community:9. Involve: Parents10. Include: Community Partners

Engage

Project-Based Learning Students go beyond the textbook to study

* Complex topics based on real-world issues - such as the water quality in their communities or the history of their town. * Analyzing information from multiple sources- Internet ,interviews with experts.

Project-Based classwork

* More demanding than traditional book-based instruction- where students may just memorize facts from a single source. * Students utilize original documents and data, mastering principles covered in traditional courses but learning them in more meaningful ways. * Projects can last weeks; multiple projects can cover entire courses. * Student work is presented to audiences beyond the teacher, including parents and community groups - enhances presentation, communication skills. Helps in building self- confidence, gain leadership qualities improves vocabulary etc.,

Connect

Integrated Studies

Study should enable students to reach across traditional disciplines and explore their relationships - History, literature, and art can be interwoven and studied together.

Integrated studies enable subjects to be investigated using many forms of knowledge and expression, as literacy skills are expanded beyond the traditional focus on words and numbers to include graphics, color, music, and motion.

Share

Cooperative Learning

Working together on project teams and guided by trained teachers

- students learn the skills of collaborating, managing emotions, and resolving conflicts in groups.

Each member of the team is responsible for learning the subject matter as well as helping teammates to learn.

Cooperative learning develops social and emotional skills, providing a valuable foundation for their lives as workers, family members, and citizens.

Expand

Comprehensive Assessment

Assessment should be expanded beyond simple test scores - instead provide a detailed, continuous profile of student strengths and weaknesses.

Teachers, parents, and individual students can closely monitor academic progress and use the assessment to focus on areas that need improvement.

Tests should be an opportunity for students to learn from their mistakes, retake the test, and improve their scores.

Coach

Intellectual and Emotional Guide

The most important role for teachers is to coach and guide students through the learning process, giving special attention to nurturing a student's interests and self-confidence.

As technology provides more curricula, teachers can spend less time lecturing entire classes and more time mentoring students as individuals and tutoring them in areas in which they need help or seek additional challenges.

Learn

Teaching as Apprenticeship

Preparation for a teaching career should follow the model of apprenticeships, in which novices learn from experienced masters.

Student teachers should spend less time in lecture halls learning educational theory and more time in classrooms, working directly with students and master teachers.

Teaching skills should be continually sharpened, with time to take courses, attend conferences, and share lessons and tips with other teachers, online and in person.

Adopt

Technology

The intelligent use of technology can transform and improve almost every aspect of school, modernizing the nature of curriculum - student assignments, parental connections, and administration.

Online curricula now include lesson plans, simulations, and demonstrations for classroom use and review –

With online connections, students can share their work and communicate more productively and creatively.

Teachers can maintain records and assessments using software tools and stay in close touch with students and families via email and voicemail.

Schools can reduce administrative costs by using technology tools, as other fields have done, and provide more funds for the classroom.

Reorganize

Resources

Resources of time, money, and facilities must be restructured

The school day should allow for more in-depth project work beyond the 45-minute period.

Schools should not close for a three-month summer vacation, but should remain open for student activities, teacher development, and community use.

Elementary school teachers stay with a class for two or more years, deepening their relationships with students.

New school construction and renovation should emphasize school design that supports students and teachers collaborating in teams, with pervasive access to technology.

Schools can be redesigned to also serve as community centers that provide health and social services for families, as well as counseling and parenting classes.

Involve

Parents

When school work involves parents, students learn more.

Parents and other caregivers are a child's first teachers and can instill values that encourage school learning.

Schools should build strong alliances with parents and welcome their active participation in the classroom.

Educators should inform parents of the school's educational goals, the importance of high expectations for each child, and ways of assisting with homework and classroom lessons.

Include

Community Partners

Partnerships with a wide range of community organizations, including business, higher education, museums, and government agencies, provide critically needed materials, technology, and experiences for students and teachers. These groups expose students and teachers to the world of work through school-to-career programs and internships.

Schools should enlist professionals to act as instructors and mentors for students.

Take Away’s

Pull, don’t push.

 

Create an environment that raises a lot of questions from each of your students,

and help them translate that into insight and understanding. Education is too

often seen as the transmission of knowledge. Real learning happens when the

student feels the need to reconcile a question he or she is facing—and can’t help

but seek out an answer.

Create from relevance. 

Engage kids in ways that have relevance to them, and you’ll capture their attention

and imagination. Allow them to experience the concepts you’re teaching firsthand,

and then discuss them (or, better yet, work to address them!) instead of relying on

explanation alone.

Stop calling them “soft” skills. 

Talents such as creativity, collaboration, communication, empathy, and

adaptability are not just nice to have; they’re the core capabilities of a 21st-

century global economy facing complex challenges.Allow for variation. 

Evolve past a one- size-fits-all mentality and permit mass customization, both

in the system and the classroom. Too often, equality in education is treated as

sameness. The truth is that everyone is starting from a different place and

going to a different place.No more sage onstage. 

Engaged learning can’t always happen in neat rows. People need to get their

hands dirty. They need to feel, experience, and build. In this interactive

environment, the role of the teacher is transformed from the expert telling

people the answer to an enabler of learning. Step away from the front of the

room and find a place to engage with your learners as the “guide on the side.”

Teachers are designers. 

Let them create. Build an environment where your teachers are actively engaged in

learning by doing. Shift the conversation from prescriptive rules to permissive

guidance. Even though the resulting environment may be more complicated to

manage, the teachers will produce amazing results.

Build a learning community. 

Learning doesn’t happen in the child’s mind alone. It happens through the

social interactions with other kids and teachers, parents, the community, and

the world at large.

It really does take a village. Schools should find new ways to engage parents and

build local and national partnerships. This doesn’t just benefit the child—it brings

new resources and knowledge to your institution.

Be an anthropologist, not an archaeologist. 

An archaeologist seeks to understand the past by investigating its relics and digging for

the truth of what was. An anthropologist studies people to understand their values,

needs, and desires. If you want to design new solutions for the future, you have to

understand what people care about and design for that. Don’t dig for the answer—

connect

Incubate the future. 

What if our K–12 schools took on the big challenges that we’re facing today? Allow

children to see their role in creating this world by studying and creating for topics like

global warming, transportation, waste management, health care, poverty, and even

education. It’s not about finding the right answer. It’s about being in a place where we

learn ambition, involvement, responsibility, not to mention science, math, and

literature.

Change the discourse. 

If you want to drive new behavior, you have to measure new things. Skills such

as creativity and collaboration can’t be measured on a bubble chart. We need

to create new assessments that help us understand and talk about the

developmental progress of 21st-century skills. This is not just about measuring

outcomes, but also measuring process. We need formative assessments that

are just as important as numeric ones. And here’s the trick: we can’t just have

the measures. We actually have to value them..

Recommendation

Sensitivity, awareness and observation in children should be preserved

Instead of they being told what to do, experiential learning will help them

construct their own solutions and develop sensitivity towards the subject.

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