Global Indian International School

Global Indian International School
Type Private
Established 2002
Key people Atul Temurnikar- Co-founder and Chairman GSF, Kamal Gupta- COO and Regional Director MENA, Kaustubh Bodhankar- Co-founder and CEO
Location 7 countries, 21 schools
Website www.globalindianschool.org

Global Indian International School (GIIS) is an international school established in 2002, initiated and head quartered in Singapore. GIIS has presence over 7 countries and 20 schools which include Singapore (Queenstown, East Coast, and Balestier), Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur), India (Hyderabad, Pune, Surat, Ahmedabad, Noida, Bangalore, and Indore), UAE (Abu Dhabi), Thailand (Bangkok), Vietnam (Ho Chi Minh) and Japan (Nischi Kasai).[1] Their growing network of schools is grooming thousands of students from more than 50 nationalities to become future leaders. It has a learner-centric and skill-based curricula, GIIS offers holistic learning and personality development opportunities for students.

History

Global Indian International School (GIIS) made its beginning with 48 students in its first campus at Mount Sophia, Singapore in 2002.[2] With 21 campuses in 7 countries across Asia in the year 2016, GIIS has emerged as a preferred international school offering Indian and international curricula to students from diverse nationalities. The school has established a global footprint with campuses in Malaysia, Japan, Thailand, UAE, Vietnam and India.

GIIS has been honored with several international and national awards for achieving excellence in school education since 2008. The school promotes a strong multicultural environment and has students from diverse nationalities enrolled across its campuses.[3]

Founders

Curriculum

GIIS is an international school offering curricula for Kindergarten to Year 12 education, including International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (IBDP), International General Certificate of Secondary Education (IGCSE), Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), and Global Montessori Plus programme.[4]

GIIS schools have adopted the cultural ideology of ‘Schools That Learn’ that makes each individual at GIIS an equal partner in the process of learning. GIIS ensures that adequate opportunity, mentoring and guidance are provided to students to excel in entrepreneurship, leadership, team work, group dynamics and academics.

Academic features

A futuristic curriculum for leadership

GIIS has adopted a futuristic curriculum to impart 21st century skills for students. It focuses on integrating formal with informal learning; learners acquire the necessary skills for inter-disciplinary thinking, critical thinking, problem solving and resolving conflict. This develops leadership and change management skills to face the uncertainties of the emerging knowledge society.

International Knowledge Exchange Program

Students get to interact in person with students and teachers from other global campuses through web-conferencing, thereby giving them an international outlook and satisfying their curiosity about new geographies.[5]

Multi-faceted academic practices

Triggered through technology GIIS’s multi-faceted learning methods address the physical, mental, emotional, psychic, intellectual and spiritual domains of the individual learner, thus acknowledging the uniqueness of each.

The curriculum will also offer facilities for extended learning for a futuristic purpose. They train their students to be ‘lifelong learners’ for the ever changing world.

Excellence through global best practices

GIIS’s Global Centre for Educational Excellence is aligned to the famous Malcolm Baldrige Model founded by NIST, USA in 1997. The top 500 schools in the world follow the Malcolm Baldrige criteria for excellence. So do all educational excellence models around the world, such as Singapore Quality Class and the IMC National Quality awards (India). The Singapore government’s best schools in Asia are modeled on the same, and assessed accordingly. The International Asia Pacific Quality Organization (IAPQO), which has 72 member countries, also rates Asia’s best schools based on this model.

MY GIIS - The GIIS Learning Tracker

At GIIS, they believe that parents should be as much a part of the learning process, as their children. Which is why, they have created the GIIS Child Learning Tracker: a web portal that helps parents stay updated on their child’s progress at every step. They can interact online with GIIS teachers, administrators and students on every aspect of their child’s education.

Emphasis on Multiple Intelligences

Learning that’s facilitated through a pedagogy that will contribute to interactive and experiential learning. The focus is on the development of Multiple Intelligences, Emotional Skills and Life Skills of the learners for their integrated, holistic growth and development.

Nine Gems TM teaching methodology

The Nine Gems learning framework - an integrated, holistic approach to learning - balances academics and experience, mental and physical development, fine arts and performing arts, language skills and creativity, personality development, ethics and entrepreneurship. This proprietary system helps GIIS students develop multi-dimensionally.

 

A blend of co and extra-curricular activities

GIIS, lays a lot of emphasis on all-round development of their students – not just the mental aspects but equally so, the physical. Sports, both outdoor and indoor, music and art form a vital part of the learning experience.

Awards

For the period of 2008 to 2016, GIIS has received International and National Awards for Excellence in School Education.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Global Indian International School Balestier". Study Chacha. 17 March 2016.
  2. ↑ "School History". Global School Foundation.
  3. ↑ "Shaping open minds" (PDF). Global School Foundation.
  4. ↑ "GIIS Global Citizenship Scholarship shaping the dreams of students". Career India. 13 February 2014.
  5. ↑ "Global Indian International School conducts Exchange Program". Career India. 4 December 2014.
  6. ↑ "Innovation Management (GPIMA)". Golden Peacock Awards.
  7. ↑ "GPEA AWARDS 2016". APQO.
  8. ↑ "GIIS takes Golden Peacock award". Education Journal me. 4 May 2015.
  9. ↑ "GIIS East Coast Campus wins the IMC RBNQ Award 2014". Global School News. 27 March 2015.

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