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What's New at CMS - Primary Section |
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GEMS - A New Personalised Programme at CMS - PRIMARY SECTION
Fostering the spirit of growth for all, a new personalised programme at CMS, the Global Education Model of Schooling, or GEMS, has been adopted at the primary levels in the core subjects of English and Mathematics with some components at the senior levels.
That no child is a failure and every child can excel are the maxims of GEMS. By both challenging and supporting the students at their own level of understanding, GEMS maximizes individual potential. Even in large classrooms with 40 or more children, or even 20 it is hard to personalise instruction. However, GEMS has shown that not only it is possible, but also highly successful. |
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| By adopting GEMS, CMS has invested in the best personal development of each child. |
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| GEMS is |
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a new way to assess the child against his own potential |
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a new set of tools for goal-setting, planning and time-management |
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a new set of Perbooks (Personalised Workbooks) that are like medicines to a diagnosis and help each child excel. |
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| A new way to Assess. A new system of assessment that provides an objective basis for competition with oneself and not simply others was adopted for the primary children with a view to empower them through the assessment process itself. |
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GEMS EMPOWER Baseline and Progress Surveys I and II and GEMS Personalised Baseline and Progress Reports (four in a year) are provided free to the students. |
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They show the starting point of a student at the beginning of each term and progress made at the end of each term, against set goals. |
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Parents and students have reported that these assessments, which are meant to not only diagnose but also reinforce learning objectives, have improved results and greatly reduced exam fear. |
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Further, they are a planning tool for the teachers who can be aware of and address better the strengths and weaknesses of each child in the class. They help in remedial planning also. |
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| A new set of tools for goal-setting, planning and time-management. |
Even from the earliest ages, from class I itself, information is presented in a palatable manner such that every student knows which concepts he has to cover in the first term and which in the second term, so that as a partner in his own learning process, he can plan his studies better, set goals and manage time. He gets to learn from the GEMS EMPOWER Baseline Surveys which concepts each a student has a good, moderate or limited understanding of within a subject, and not just overall averages (as shown on the previous page). This way, a student can fine-tune a personalised programme of studies for himself, turning his personal “moderates” into “good”, and his “limited” understanding on certain concepts into “moderate” and “good”, thus improving his overall average faster than in the traditional approaches to learning. |
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| "Look, I Can Do It!" |
The main goal of GEMS is to build the confidence and the inner resolve of each student who must feel “I can do it”. By making children partners in the learning process, GEMS programme has already shown tremendous impact on the development of confidence. It is true that given sufficient time and better approaches to learning that teach as well as motivate, the students can surprise themselves and others.
The very gauges of success have been redefined through GEMS, which in a subtle way, is changing the landscape of our thinking about what it means to educate and to assess a child. It redefines success as competition with oneself and not simply with others.
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" Man is a mine rich in GEMS of inestimable value. Education can, alone, cause it to reveal its treasures and benefit mankind therefrom." |
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