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Key Changes Due to New Normal Mode of Schooling

The year 2020 has been a transforming year in all aspects. The pandemic made the whole world hung amidst possibilities and decisions. Changes were plentiful with the pros and cons attached to it. Everyone tried well to get through and survive the aspects of the new normal.

With innumerous experiments, education too observed a sudden change. Gradually, all CBSE Schools in Gujarat as well as worldwide adopted methods considering the new normal situation. The pandemic bought the following modifications in education.

Transition to Online Classes
The most change which the Education world has experienced is the change to the on-screen learning. So, students learn from home and save their travel time, thus have more time to perform other activities. With the drastic change in Education, teachers have been working hard to compensate classroom learning and deliver the best to their students.

Independent Learning
The principal benefit which online learning has rendered is the self-dependency to students. During the contemporary mode of schooling, they used to ask even the smallest doubts to the teachers. With the reduced number of hours and remote learning, students try to solve simple problems on their own, which further makes them use their brains more and learn better.

Online Exams
Unlike regular schooling, the way of conducting exams have changed. Routine written tests got substituted with multiple-choice questions. Teachers create an online form, of which the link is sent to the students. The students need to open the link on the prescribed time and submit the test within the allotted period. The frequency of conducting descriptive examinations, on the other hand, lessened up. Moreover, there is a specific manner to conduct such written tests, which gets proctored online by keeping the cameras on and submitting the sheets after scanning it. The questions asked in such exams are to be levelled up as compared to the class exams. Schools are also conducting open book tests for students in the crisis.

Techno-Savvy Schooling
As learning is online, teachers are obtaining every possible tool available over technology to make it more productive for students. For this, the school arranges frequent training sessions to upgrade their technical skills. Even students have thus got familiar with many software and have learned working on them. To make students ready for the classes, especially to the young learners, even parents had updated themselves technologically.

Assignment & Homework Submission
With no physical submission of assignments, all students need to submit their work online after scanning it. Students can access worksheets from the Assignment Module of MST, while Notebook Work, Videos related to the subject, Answer Keys of Assignments, and presentations can get accessed from the Files Module of MST. Further, links of study material and videos get shared over WhatsApp.

The ‘NN’ Tribute
The online transition has Nurtured Nature in many ways. From reducing the carbon footprints due to less vehicle usage to saving numerous papers, online classes are healing nature to a great extent. The ozone layer is getting cured due to less usage of transportations. Moreover, the techno transition has increased the use of computers thus reducing the number of papers. All the circulars and communication to the parents from schools, as well as tests conducted, got online. Further, students give multiple-choice questions on google forms which again helps save nature.

A Good-Bye Message
All the best English medium schools in Ahmedabad have made it a responsibility to deliver the most desirable education to their students, even when they are bound to present schooling remotely. The schools are striving the best to handle the change superbly and reduce all the ill-effects of the pandemic on education. Constant experiments by educators and feedbacks from parents are something undertaken regularly to make the new normal schooling mode more comfortable.

Let us know more about the pros and cons of virtual schooling and help us work better.

A Free Homeopathic Treatment

To contribute our parents towards their medicinal costs, we have provided them with free medical aid from our Homeopathy Clinic. This facility is available to all our students. They can call our homeopath for telephonic consultation, after which they can collect medicines from the nearest school campus.

Homeopathy is a very safe medicine with negligible side effects and easy to administer to children. Even govt promotes this alternative medicine under the AYUSH scheme. The school distributed a lot of doses of prophylaxis free to people who requested.

Quizzes and Contests

The best CBSE School in Ahmedabad makes sure to present an all-round development to its students, hence, motivates them to participate in various online quizzes and contests.

Weekly General Knowledge Quiz, as well as other contests from time to time, are conducted for the students of the Middle and Secondary section. We also award the top scorers of the quiz, the entire cost of which is borne by the school.

Conducting an age-wise online quiz which is broadcasted live on Facebook, the students hence get the feel of participating in a live quiz competition. The intention is to motivate children to go beyond the textbooks.

An Online Creative Corner

At the best CBSE School in Ahmedabad, we understand how much talent recognition is essential. Hence we make sure to showcase the extraordinary talents of our students on various social media platforms. From their expertise in art & craft to their skills of narration or singing, we make sure the abilities of students get recognition. Parents feel proud when their child’s work gets appreciation from others. Our social media reach is unparalleled and it gives an important platform for students to showcase their talents.

We further motivate our students and parents to send their contributions to us so that we may get them published in Times NIE.

Remedial Classes for Weak Students

All the students who study, do not learn at the same pace. Some students clear basics in a single session, while some need more sessions to get on the same course.

To make sure all the students understand the fundamentals of academics, we conduct weekly counseling sessions for the ones who need extra attention at academics. Identifying the subject in which the student is weak, our counselors’ design worksheets, and conduct remedial classes online every Saturday to help the students.

We have a team of counsellors as well as special educators, headed by Vice-Principal (Special Education) for addressing the needs of these children.

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World Class Training and Upgrading Skills of Teachers

At Udgam School for Children, we staked all our teaching as well as non-teaching staff during the pandemic with various initiatives. To the teachers not equipped with devices, we presented loans to them for purchasing laptops/desktops to conduct online classes from home. We provided work from home internet pack from Jio to each teacher to ensure that they do not face any internet issues during the classes.

Teachers were motivated to attend online training and webinars, which would further help in making the online classes interactive and engaging, at the cost of school. The training got conducted by MS Teams, where they learned about the usage of the online learning app, Extramarks.

We, at school, allocated added training budgets so that we leave no stone unturned to deliver the best to our students. We empowered teachers with more than sufficient training budget and the freedom to upgrade their skills.

To ensure helping the students’ as well as parents during the lockdown, teachers worked at an increased number of hours. All staff is was given a choice to work as per their flexible hours, and they are working remotely for their safety.

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