At ASPAM Indian International School, education is focused on creating real-life personalized – “authentic” learning experiences for students—these experiences enable them to produce work that is meaningful to them and that has value beyond school. Significant connections are established among diverse subject areas through an integrated curriculum.

The aim is not to ‘cover’ the syllabus, but to provide children practice in the skills to ‘uncover’ it, so that they are able to satisfy their innate curiosity about the world around them to find answers. In this way, they learn the vital skill of asking ‘smart’ questions – of far greater significance when so much factual knowledge is available at the touch of a button.

The aim is for students to acquire skills by exploring, solving problems, and sharing ideas with others. Teachers spark students’ interests—encouraging them to think critically, to imagine, to ask questions, to experiment, to explore–and help relate students learning to their own experiences and to the real world. In this way, teachers help students define understanding in a dynamic and exploratory way, rather than simply as a collection of isolated facts and skills.

The teaching methodology includes various practices to achieve the goals of holistic development of students on Personal, Emotional, Physical and Cognitive aspects. These are:

• Inquiry oriented as opposed to Exam oriented
• Personalized model of learning as opposed to one-size-fits-all model
• Multiple Intelligence and differentiated instructions
• Collaborative project-based curriculum