Why is NIS a school with a difference?

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Nurture's Beliefs

NURTURE PEDAGOGY

NIS is a school with a difference. The main difference is its focus on each child. All Nurture methods, materials and assessment, teaching processes and methods are scientifically designed for each child to feel empowered and supported at his / her level. We believe that all children are capable of mastery but due to different talents, interests and strengths they grow at different pace and should never be compared.

NEVER COMPARE CHILDREN

Children must never be compared. Comparison with others lowers a child's self-esteem, self worth and confidence. This is undesirable. Nurture schools are extremely clear on this objective and explain the same to the parents to help them grow confident and strong children. Practically speaking, parents can either build or break the confidence and self esteem of their child. Expressing unhappiness due to poor performance or bragging about their achievements; both are inappropriate.

PERSONALISED EDUCATION

• Treating every child as special, the 'Nurture' academics is based on the principle of 'COMPETE WITH YOURSELF'. This creates an intrinsic motivation in every child to succeed.
• Children are further empowered with self-awareness, self-reflection and self-learning made possible by on-going personal diagnostic reports and daily reflection. Children learn important life skills and become effective partners in their learning process.
• Focus is on personalized learning. This ensures that every child maximizes his/her potential and moves efficiently towards each goal with self-confidence.

CORE COMPETENCIES

• Customized, modularly designed Curriculum Program
• Core concept of ‘Compete with Yourself’
• Individual Strength / Weakness mapping of students
• Graded and graduated learning through scientifically designed books / teaching aids
• Customized book selection for each student to convert weak areas into strengths
• Continuous evaluation to record & graphically illustrate individual progress of each child
• Built on MIS, to chart class / school progress
• Guiding philosophy of achieving high group averages by enhancing individual self esteem & belief to excel
• Well proven, widely adopted & with an established track record

SPEAKING POSITIVE LANGUAGES

NIS encourages speaking positive language. Positive language is a powerful tool for encouraging a child. The words we use when we talk to students, the intention behind these words, and how we deliver them shape the way students see themselves and their school. NIS says "Don't praise. Rephrase the praise." Use the language of encouragement instead. Praise goes to the head. Encouragement is more genuine and goes to the heart. When a child does well, praise says, "You are the greatest!" What when the child does not do well in something? Will you withdraw your original statement?

Praise is overall. Encouragement is specific. Every child can aspire to be encouraged while praise can be limited to the 'best'. For example, "I like the way you shared your crayons with that child." With such a language of encouragement, every child can feel encouraged and understand the value of sharing.

PRESERVE CURIOSITY, NURTURE CREATIVITY

Children are naturally curious and creative. When we draw a leaf and show children how to draw it, they learn to sit and watch but we unintentionally kill their natural creativity. Instead, we need to carefully plan children's learning experience so that they become more curious and creative and take initiative in exploring the natural environment around them. How about taking them to a garden to pick fallen leaves and asking them to paint them in their personal favourite colours, making impressions with these in their drawing sheets. Watch the wonder and the joy! When you next ask to draw them, you will find more variety, more detail and more understanding. Which is better? One experience is aimed at pushing through a syllabus while the other focuses on developing life-skills. NIS believes in the latter to develop life skills in children.

PASSIONATE LEADERSHIP

Every teacher at Nurture undergoes a training which helps them mould their teaching methodology to suit individual child. Aptly maintaining a student-teacher ratio of 8:1, the faculties at NIS, Whitefield, Bangalore are highly qualified and jeweled with gems ,such as caring, loving, patience, understanding, comforting besides a deep passion to nurture.

NURTURE VERSUS CONVENTIONAL SCHOOLING