Vidyashilp Academy
| Vidya Shilp Academy, Bangalore | |
| VSA Logo | |
| Established | 1996 |
| Location | Bangalore, India |
| Students | approximately 900 |
| Website | www.vidyashilp.com |
== Academic Approach ==VSA SUCKS BALLS Vidyashilp Academy, based in Bangalore, India is a contemporary and progressive institution of learning. It represents excellence in the field of education, committed to providing students with a host of opportunities to pursue academic and personal excellence. An empowered faculty engages in continuous optimization of both teaching and learning methods, preparing their pupils for a wondrous lifetime of learning. an extended day school.
A compulsory program of studies and sports commences at 8.15 am till 4.30 pm.
Focus on a child centric learning paradigm provides in the basis for extensive research to evaluate curriculum requirements and to establish a contemporary and relevant curriculum for each academic year. Teachers use a range of resources and references to create / author lessons as per predetermined parameters for every session. The lesson plans are a structured training resource used by all Educators in the classroom using appropriate pedagogy and sophisticated technology platforms to deliver the lessons. Thus ensuing a high degree of standardization and the resultant quality of 'teaching and learning'. Online usage of Customised Multimedia Content supports the lessons.
Children use an online answering device that is attached to their desks to answer questions or quizzes online during the class, giving an accurate measure of their daily progress in learning and understanding. Vidyashilp Academy believes that good education starts with the building of a strong conceptual foundation while simultaneously developing the other faculties of the child. Carefully designed project based education integrated with curriculum, through in class collaborative exercises and assignments make the learning process far more interesting.
The academic process is comprehensively supported by technology, encompassing the entire gamut of the " Teaching - Learning" process, which help in tracking and assessing student performances. Thus enabling appropriate inputs from teachers and ensuring the process of effective learning on a continuous basis. \
A typical class deals with the following steps:
- Teaching / presentation by the Teacher.
- A brief interactive question - answer, discussion and summarizing session.
- A well designed classroom activity that is done collaboratively addressing the learnt concepts / skills.
- Teachers manage subjective assessments / grading of every child in addition to the server based performance metrics.
- Special or additional reinforcements and support to the children is assessed and provided.
The Campus
The school is built on an 18 acre campus having approximately over 1,00,000 sq. ft.of built up area for classes, lab, work area, auditorium and dining hall. The campus provides for a 25 meter swimming pool, volley ball court, basketball court, skating rink (Bangalore's largest skating rink), full size cricket, football and hockey fields, and indoor sports facilities are also provided for chess, bridge, yoga, movie and badminton. Each class is spaciously laid out to accommodate thirty three children with functionally designed tables and seating arrangement, book racks, computer and audio visual equipment.
The Library
The school has a spacious, well stocked library that serves as a vast knowledge resource for students and teachers. Presently having over 13,500 titles in active reference besides a number of dailies, magazines and journals. Contemporary authors, texts with rich graphics and software of various publishers lead students to make active use of library resources in their daily day to day learning.
Several library activities and competitions make the library a lively place to learn. The library has an exclusive internet zone for the use of students and teachers to explore new information and execute projects. The Librarian's name is Ms. Sindhu and an assistant Parvati.
The Theater
Theater in education is a 'Global Endeavor', which has brought universal benefits along with the incredible transformation that theater brings into the schools curriculum. This initiative enhances the knowledge and comprehension, supplementing and complementing the approach, at every stage. The technique enables students to comprehend the most valuable context subjectively. It has further enhanced learning through a process of experiencing subjects and situations for internalizing knowledge. Communication skills, self confidence, acting and public speaking are a major learning through theatre empowering the child to express thoughts, assess feelings, manage relations and above all navigate children towards the objective.
The Knowledge Center
The school's heart of central operations is centered around the unique knowledge center that houses all information, classified data, subject curriculum digital library and also the content development activity. The content unit team develop over 3500 man hours of education content that is upgraded every year to suit the learners requirements. Meeting the demands of constant change almost instantly, enabling teachers to bring in the latest in the subject right into the class within a reasonable time.
All lesson plans are digitized using a content tool and a teaching - learning solution using state of the art platforms. The custom developed solution serves the content into the networked classes through the lesson server. Detailed metrics are captured for the learner and teaching process covering students? progressive performance, class performance, comparative analysis, curriculum progress, teacher activity and progress. Qualified multimedia professionals are engaged in a continuous process of development catering to a huge digital knowledge warehouse for education content.
Empowerment Center
In order to help children reach the optimum potential the school has an expert team of qualified professionals that identify, assist and counsel such children in focused programs undertaken at the Empowerment Center.
Children with any other difficulties are also supported and given suitable inputs or advice, while maintaining close collaboration with the parent. Many children are benefiting from this initiative, which is provided by the school as an internal service to support children and parents. Thus presenting a fair opportunity for every child to perform and excel in all spheres of their interest
The GI Club
Children are provided exclusive sessions for General awareness / knowledge / information, every week. Besides providing the excitement of doing a non - academic session that breaks the hard routine, it rejuvenates the child's motivation to know more about the world around us and several interesting facts.
Children are exposed to instant online quizzing for accuracy of answers / responses. The school has an exclusive GI Club consisting of the most gifted children who are further trained to participate and excel in several important competitions. The club is open to all and is growing in numbers. Our core team of GI teachers conducts adequate research to bring in relevant topics and materials for every leve.
At A Glance
In a nutshell,
- The Academy prepares students for the Indian Certificate of Secondary Education (ICSE) and Cambridge University's International General Certificate of Secondary Education (IGCSE);
- The Academy provides Equal educational opportunity for boys and girls. There is no discrimination of caste, community, religion, sex or nationality;
- The language of instruction (medium of instruction) used in the Academy is English;
- The Education levels are from Grade I to Grade 10;
- The Academy emphasizes on a balance of academic rigour and co-curricular activities;
- In order to help children reach the optimum potential the school has an expert team of qualified professionals that identify, assist and counsel such children in focused programmes undertaken at a unique program called the Empowerment Center; thus, ensuring that 'no child is left behind'
- Every year, the Academy releases batches of elated 10th Graders, who display extraordinary results in their ICSE Board Examinations (All whom have been promoted with more than 75% Mark Average); thus keeping true to its motto, where the Academy 'Leads Every Child to Excellence'
External links
- Interview with Managing Trustee, Ravindra Vithani
- Interview with Managing Trustee, Ravindra Vithani in Times of India Newspaper