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Mathematics at Primary level has been a challenge as it encompasses thousands of years of the human journey of working on the earth, of measuring and building and transforming the world. Today, the patterns that children discover evolve into mathematical objects which allow them to reason out every time they come across a new object and at the same time challenges teachers to ‘go beyond the given’ because children need to develop these new abstract skills.

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The first workshop  of  FranklinCovey’s, “The Leader in Me” programme was held from the 29th to 30th of July, 2015 in the school. 25 staff including SMT, HOD’s and secondary teachers participated in the workshop which lasted for 2 full days.
The programme was launched on the 28th of July with an orientation  session of two hours,  for the whole staff of GIS.
The training was conducted by Mr. Ameer Ahamed, the CEO of FranklinCovey  Srilanka & Maldives.
The training sessions  for the rest of the staff will be held within the next two months.

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The combination of students and tech-equipments has been an unfriendly talk in schools for years; however, GIS is going to introduce the next revolution in technology inside classrooms by encouraging students to use tech-equipments in lessons, in an approach dubbed bring your own device (BYOD).

Before introducing BYOD to students, 15 teachers across the grades were trained on why technology is used in teaching; to be precise, why BYOD and how to use them in learning. This training session held from 21st to 23rd July 2015 was facilitated by Mr. Ai Shameem a local Educationist residing in Jordan who is also the Director of Educational Technology at King’s Academy, Jordan. During these sessions, teachers were also guided on video and audio content creation tools which are add-ons to their teaching.

Once the policy to implement BYOD to students of Grades 5 and above is in place next year, the school will be monitoring how well the devices are used and also would educate students on e-safety. Though BYOD will be in place next year, two classes will be doing a pilot project on BYOD this year.