MUSCAT: A year-long quest for innovative skills at Indian School Muscat culminated in the emergence of the school as HP IDEA Innovators. The school project was led by Ms Bigimol Sebastian, Assistant Vice-Principal (Middle Section) and a team of teachers to collaborate with and learn HP’s methodologies to emerge with a novel idea benefiting the teacher-student fraternity.

HP IDEA (Innovation and Digital Education Academy)’s program helped the participants to employ tools that help them dive deep into their teaching practices, and their students’ learning practices to diagnose challenges, experiment with solutions and consequently refine their practices in order to be able to adapt to and excel in an everchanging world.

 
The tough wading through, not knowing what lay ahead at the end of the tunnel, created a cadre of innovative practitioners and instructional leaders. It was an immersive teacher development program that enabled participants to develop and access new learning modalities in select situations.  

The school expressed gratitude to HP IDEA’s organising team for the probes and challenges posed in front of the team ISM that made them pause and look at their innovative thinking. The team looks back with pride and enthusiasm seeing the bright light transpires.

Team ISM emerged with the ‘Gamification’ tool that left the HP organizers and other participants astounded. By way of this tool, the school team has identified a good deal of students who are capable enough of being content creators’. Within a span of two weeks, students came up with gamification techniques that incorporated Arts, Mathematics and Science, the exact model of the new National Education Policy.

Lauding the efforts of the school, Mr Schin Toprani President ISM Management Committee mentioned, “The teaching staff needs to acquire the right skills to take advantage of blended and digital learning solutions. The newly launched program offers teachers and educators the opportunity to create digital capabilities based on educational frameworks”

Congratulating the entire team, Principal Dr Rajeev Kumar Chauhan said, “The program targets students, teachers and the leadership members with the aim of equipping them with the skills and tools that stimulate their abilities to innovate.” He added that the school will take the HP IDEA journey forward and incorporate further innovations of global standards.

HP IDEA is a part of HP’s commitment to enabling better learning outcomes for 100 million people globally by 2025. The program has been launched in ten countries across the Middle East, Africa and Central Asia — Oman, the UAE, Egypt, South Africa, KSA, Qatar, Kazakhstan, Nigeria, Ghana, and Rwanda.