Our Alumni – the products of this very educational framework and best equipped to work with it – are returning to help out with the teaching! A slew of Alumni students have been returning to school to assist in teaching subjects that they enjoyed when they were at MGIS.
To name a few examples: Mihir Sharma, Anahita Sarabhai, Isha Jhaveri Malvika Bhagwat, and Radhika Pandit (from the class of 2007) have all been assisting with different subjects. Isha Jhaveri has joined the school after completing her graduation to teach French as a foreign language and Business Administration full time. Mihir gave short intensive and rigorous interventions in Theory of Knowledge classes, Anahita in the Theatre Arts, Malvika in English Literature and Radhika in Mathematics. Furthermore, Gautam Sinha (from the class of 2008) who has graduated from the University of Sound Engineering, Chennai has just completed a crash course with our 10th graders on Music history, theory and Ethno-musicology.
Training new teachers to the rigor of our school pedagogy as well as that of the International Baccalaureate is one difficult task. The active pedagogy at MGIS is student-centric and inter-disciplinary, requiring long years of training and hard work to understand and apply its tenets. While the IB curriculum for every subject and module is extensive and requires a sound understanding of the material, as do its very strictly prescribed methods and criterion for evaluation. For this reason, the school conducts regular teacher trainings and sends its teachers for workshops and trainings.
The school welcomes this influx of alumni students returning to help out, and we hope that future generations of the school’s graduates will continue to come in as well!