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Teaching and Learning

Teaching takes place in small groups. The average class size is 25 for Foundational classes (with 2 teachers), Primary and Middle school and 10 to 20 students in Secondary and Higher secondary. This ratio enables the tutors to give individual attention to each of the students and take care of their particular needs. All our teachers are highly qualified and specialists in their respective domains.

Homework and Supervised Study

Regular homework is an integral part of our courses. For junior students it is an engagement to their learning progression and senior students this is a rigorous practice and independent learning time. Senior students are expected to spend at least as many hours each week in private study as they do within the classroom. Students are encouraged to use the school’s spacious study facilities and library which is supervised during lesson time and provides a quiet area for individual study.

Remedial Classes

There are daily and weekly tutorials provided that offer an opportunity for students to clarify points of difficulty, review assignments and deal with any individual problems. In these sessions, tutors work closely with a small group of students to improve understanding and develop confidence in dealing with examination questions. Through this ‘one-to-one’ support, we are able to ensure that each student’s individual needs are attended to in preparation for all assessments.

Progress Monitoring

We are particularly concerned with monitoring the individual progress of all students in MERU. Home Room Teachers, Heads of Department and segment wise coordinators closely supervise the academic progress of their students, using information such as tests, homework marks and assessment results, etc through an internally developed tracker shared with parents. The Principal and Headmasters also meet regularly to discuss student performance, which ensures that there is early intervention if a student requires additional coaching.

Student Led Monthly Parent Teacher Conversation

The monthly student led parent teacher interaction for each student is a hallmark of MERU where student’s progression, learning goals for next 4 weeks and action plans are decided with complete student participation. The student walks the parents and the teachers about the learning progression, informs the teachers and parents on areas where additional support is required and also comes up with an action plan and learning goals for the next 4 weeks. In this way the teachers, student and parents collaboratively work towards a student’s learning progression.

Student Led Conferences

Student Led Conferences promote a school culture of engagement and growth, and invite students to play an active role in planning their own learning. The Student Led Conferences at Meru International School promote responsibility, team-work, self–reflection and leadership qualities of students, and reframe the learning experience of a student by investing in their own learning. Parents become partners in learning and have the opportunity to indulge in one-on-one academic conversations with children at the school to understand the learning capability and efficiency of their children.

Special Instruction Unit

The Special Instructions unit at MERU is designed for the students whose physical, social, cognitive, and emotional skills are delayed. Our educators at the special instruction unit curate curriculum and pedagogy to adapt to the specific needs of these children. An Individual Educational Plan (IEP) is developed to evaluate children and provide the necessary support system to children that are parallel to the academic experience at MERU.

HOTS (Higher Order Thinking Skills)

High academic expectations is a norm at MERU. The brain feature of neuroplasticity provides the educators with the scope of widening the capacity of students who have the trait of Higher Order Thinking. In order to increase the rigor of these high achievers, we introduced the HOTs program. The curriculum and pedagogy at MERU are designed to hone these skills to create future leaders of the world.

Second Language Supplementary Classes for NRI Students

Students who are from different countries and are new to languages like Hindi, Telugu and French, are given the privilege to learn the language of their choosing, right from the basics, as additional or supplementary classes. These classes are taken throughout the grades and go on for the entire academic year, till the student is confident about the subject and is able to cope with the syllabus. These students are also assessed by giving a special paper on the subject matter of the supplementary classes.

E-Learning

MERU uses Google Classroom, a very powerful tool which enhances and simplifies communication between students and teachers and reduces carbon footprint. Using Google Classroom together with other G Suite applications has been a huge success at MERU. Teachers across the school use it to set homework, provide feedback and share resources, and it is a key tool for Careers, the Wellbeing programme and the Personal Tutors. Google Classroom proved invaluable during the Coronavirus lockdown period, and it’s worth noting that all our classes ran as usual online, by combining Google Classroom with a video conferencing platform for remote interactive lessons. This meant that MERU students did not lose any teaching time as a result of the pandemic.

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