Education towards World Standards – A Global Citizen

One of the most contentious issues that fall under the popular rubric of ‘globalization’ is GLOBAL EDUCATION. Accordingly, schools today must ensure that students develop a broad understanding of the world, proficiency in other languages and knowledge of other cultures. To be a global citizen, education patterns and pedagogy has to change and incorporate skills that are required for living today and be successful future citizens of the world. This brings in the need of an “International Educational Program”.

Neerja Modi School in its endeavor to take students to world standards has already started the International General Certificate for Secondary Education (IGSCE) at the Grade IX Level. Having taken on the first step, the school has now extended the International program to middle school students (Grades VI, VII and VIII). The school organized an Orientation Program for parents of middle school students, tuning them in with fine nuances of the Checkpoint Program, the system, the books and the examination pattern.

Principal, Mrs. K. Khanna, introduced the program and this was followed by a power point presentation by Ms. Sarita Nathawat, the International Program
Co-ordinator.

The Checkpoint Program lays a strong foundation towards IGCSE and equips and prepares students to take on IGCSE and then the A Levels or AS Levels.

The response has been overwhelming and enthusiastic and the school is well on the path of becoming a world school, giving the best to every child, keeping our cultural moorings intact and yet taking the child to a world beyond.