Best Practices for Successful Schools
The document outlines the educational approaches and best practices of Payam Shoghi. The educational approaches aim to develop students' minds through intellectual stimulation and critical thinking, enlightened hearts through moral and values education, and skillful hands through self-confidence and self-reliance. Some of the best practices for governance include collective decision-making, student involvement in school matters, and parental outreach. Academic best practices incorporate schemes for coordination and supervision, tutorials, subject-specific classes, cooperative learning, peer tutoring, and technology integration. The practices also emphasize value education programs, teacher mentoring of students, skill-based clubs, and avoiding using red pens when marking student work.
Best Practices for Successful Schools
- 2. EDUCATIONAL APPROACHES Aim to impart students with: Keen and Well-Trained Minds: Minds that need to be stimulated for intellectual prowess Enlightened Hearts: Involves a well thought out programme of moral and value education with focus on EQ Skillful Hands: Training students in skills that will promote self-confidence and self-reliance
- 3. BEST PRACTICES Governance Collective Decision-Making: 20 minds work better than one. Open Door Policy by the Principal for students, staff and parents. A more visible leader leads much better than an invisible one. Student Open House: Involving students in school matters and decision making Parental Outreach: Novel ways to gain trust and wholehearted support of parents
- 4. BEST PRACTICES Academics Scheme of Academic Coordination and Supervision: Based on simple, regular and quantifiable parameters Tutorials/Remedial Sessions: A meaningful programme of academic support for students in need of additional help Subject-wise Parallel Classes for different ability students
- 5. BEST PRACTICES Academics Liberal use of Cooperative Learning in classroom sessions Peer Tutoring among students within classroom sessions and during free study time Learning Disability: In-House support and regular monitoring Use of Technology: Promote and support use of smart class system, cloud based learning and other technological tools
- 6. BEST PRACTICES Other Areas Great Importance to Value Edn: “The Foundation of Peace” “Junior Youth Empowerment Prog” One-to-One Mentoring by Teachers- Teachers assigned as mentors Positive Benchmarking of students Skill-Based Weekend Clubs Discourage use of red pen for marking the work of students
- 7. For more information contact: pshoghi@gmail.com