KNOW JSS
Jacob International Public School methodology concentrates first on the student's aptitudes, then on the skills and knowledge s/he needs to acquire. Traditional education tends to value a limited range of knowledge and skills but more recent research suggests that intelligence is not unitary but multiple. Jacob International Public School aims to give students a broader, deeper, richer educational experience by recognising each student's strongest talents and building on them in order to ensure that all the areas of talent are developed.
Multiple Intelligences Theory: A Learning Tool
Much of traditional education values a very limited range of abilities, centring on literacy and numeracy. However different individuals have different aptitudes. By using the strongest aptitudes or ‘intelligences’ as a starting point we can educate more effectively by teaching different students the same topic in different ways according to their particular ‘intelligences’. In a class situation, this approach allows students to benefit from each other’s strengths and to develop their competence in their weaker as in their stronger ‘intelligences’.
Linguistic: | Developed at Jacob International Public School through such activities as creative writing, literature, foreign language learning, theatre, debating and public speaking. |
Logical-Mathematical: | Developed at Jacob International Public School through such activities as science and maths projects and experiments, industrial design, stock-market games and helping to run the student store. |
Musical: | Developed at Jacob International Public School through such activities as playing, directing studying and composing classical and contemporary music. |
Bodily-Kinesthetic: | Developed at Jacob International Public School through such activities as sports and athletics, yoga, modelling, textile-making, contemporary and classical dance. |
Spatial: | Developed at Jacob International Public School through such activities as sculpture, drawing and painting, photography and geography. |
Naturalist: | Developed at Jacob International Public School through such activities as ecology, gardening, wild-life observation, biological and chemical experiments. |
Inter-Personal: | Developed at Jacob International Public School through such activities as group projects, peer teaching and counselling, media work (including student magazines and the Yearbook) and international exchange programmes. |
Intra-Personal: | Developed at Jacob International Public School through self-awareness training, counselling and the creation of physical and personal space for meditation, reflection and tranquility. |