Inclusive Education
It is a a persistent pattern of inattention, hyperactivity, and/or impulsivity that interferes with daily life.
What is ADHD (or ADD)?
Someone who continuously seeks new knowledge and skills throughout their life, driven by curiosity and a desire for personal growth.
What is a Lifelong Learner?
A method where traditional in-class lectures are moved to homework and are replaced by hands-on, interactive activities in the classroom.
What is a Flipped Classroom?
A child-centered educational philosophy emphasizing learning through play, exploration, and discovery of the child's "100 languages".
What is the Reggio Emilia method?
It is the 2nd school in India (and the 1st in South India) to adopt the Reggio Emilia approach.
What is RaK's Pallikkoodam?
It is a neurodevelopmental condition affecting social interactions, characterized by repetitive patterns of behaviour.
What is Autism (or Autism Spectrum Disorder, ASD)?
A graphic organizer to help learners sort their knowledge into a wall chart with three columns for their statements and questions.
What are KWL Charts (or Know Wonder Learn)?.
A set of 7 Essential Design Elements to develop projects focused on students' acquiring key knowledge, understanding, and success skills.
What is the PBL Gold Standard?
A child-centered philosophy emphasizing self-directed learning, hands-on activities, a prepared environment and respect for the child.
What is the Montessori Method?
Giving learners an active role in their education because they can voice their concerns and make choices about how they learn.
What is student agency (or student voice and choice)?
A teaching approach where lessons are tailored to meet the diverse needs, interests, and abilities of learners, not one-size-fits-all.
What is Differentiation?
A student-led, teacher-facilitated discussion based on a specific text, where learners use collaborative questions and exploration.
What is a Socratic Seminar?
An active learning strategy where students work in groups to solve an open-ended, real-world problem that has no single correct solution.
What is Problem-Based Learning?
A teaching philosophy about the "head, heart and hands" and developing the whole child with intellectual, artistic, and practical activities.
What is Waldorf Education (or the Steiner Method)?
A framework developed by Harvard using sequences of steps to help students understand and articulate their own thinking processes.
What are Visible Thinking Routines (VTRs)?
A set of cognitive skills people use to manage themselves and their resources to achieve goals and adapt to new situations.
What are executive functions?
A circular process whose steps are Tuning In, Finding Out, Sorting Out, Going Further, Making Conclusions, and Taking Action.
What is the Inquiry Cycle (or Kath Murdoch's Theory)?
An exhibition where students share their learning with the public and share it and explain it to people beyond the classroom.
What is the public product?
It is the 3rd teacher, after the adults (the parents and mentors are the 2nd teacher) and the child (1st teacher).
What is the environment?
Techniques such as Spaced Repetition or Retrieval Practice that are backed by evidence from research in cognitive science.
What is the Science of Learning?
A set of strategies that make learning accessible through multiple means of representation, action, and expression.
What is UDL (Universal Design for Learning)?
A student-centred approach where learning is driven by questions, problems, or real-world scenarios rather than by teacher-directed facts.
What is Inquiry-Based Learning?
Examining a specific case in a real-life context using multiple sources of data, including primary sources, to answer open-ended questions.
What is a Case Study?
A research-based approach where young children develop holistically thorough activities such as formal games, role play, sensorial processing, puzzles, and exploration.
What is Play-Based Laarning (or Learning Through Play)?
It is a set of observable, intentional actions and a proactive effort to support someone else’s growth, well-being, or success.
What is kindness?