The School & History
"Education is the passport to the future for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today."… Malcolm X
JABRIYA INDIAN SCHOOL, Kuwait is a co-educational school day school recognized by the Ministry of Education, Kuwait and is affiliated to the Central Board of Education (CBSE), Delhi, India.
Jabriya Indian School (JIS) started in the year 1993and is located in Jabriya area of Kuwait. The school is catering for the educational needs of children of expatriate Indian children and others in Kuwait. The school offers educational facilities from Nursery to class 12 of CBSE curriculum, preparing its students for the All India Secondary and Senior Secondary Certificate Examination.
Founded in 1993, the school is centrally located in Jabriya, offers excellent educational facilities and safe learning environment for young learners, focusing on holistic development of its students and their unique talents. The school houses well-ventilated class rooms, hall, well equipped laboratories in Physics Chemistry, Biology, Integrated Science and Computer/IT and Mathematics Lab. Library with well stocked books and periodicals and computers support student learning. Other facilities include two canteens, School clinic with 3 Nursing staff.
Committed teaching practitioners with high expectations of pupil achievement and cooperative learning behaviour in a multicultural environment of students comprising of more than 34 nationalities besides Indians and Kuwaitis, has made the school truly international. This has made the school a second home for all its students. Commitment to excellence in academics and IT related hybrid schooling and co-curricular activities, Art integrated interdisciplinary projects as well as in sporting areas has made JIS an exemplary institution in the Gulf region. Several Intra School and inter school competitions provide its students the spirit of competitive talent development. Off campus trips and annual excursions enhances their critical thinking skills and gives students a chance to think about a topicor theme from a different perspectives and experience new avenues.
Intercultural competence and global education allow us to have a better knowledge of ourselves and then, of our own culture. This first step, essential to understand others and their cultural complexities, is key to becoming global citizens. The most successful global education approaches recognize the attitudes, skills and knowledge students need to navigate, contribute to and flourish in the world — and they integrate activities that purposefully resolve opportunity gaps among students on a daily basis.
The Character development refers to qualities of the young students essential for being personally effective in a complex world including: grit, tenacity, perseverance, resilience, reliability, and honesty. Citizenship. ... Collaboration. ... Communication. ... Creativity. ... and Critical Thinking are essential components for global education. Jabriya Indian School recognizes the importance of these notable Global Competencies to be nurtured at school for the greater success of its students.
Regarding what we teach, there has been a paradigm shift in the approach through the New Education Policy. Previously we used to teach fixed curricula at the school level, which could not determine the area of strength of the student at an early level. We thought a dab of learning in every subject was essential to build the foundation of students, but today we realize we need to minimize the foundation and maximize the specialization and area of liking. Earlier, the student and his/her family had to find out the chosen stream, arts, commerce, science and then further specialization through own judgement and partly through the teacher’s judgement. But this was usually after Class 10. Sometimes people choosing Pure Science in class 11 and 12, had to opt for Social Science or Commerce or Arts at the College level. Thus, it was by trial and error that people could find their area of strength, that too often very late. Today students have the option of choosing science or arts or commerce after class 8 and have the option of changing the same in class 9.
At the present times, fast moving technological transformations and their adoption in our school brought several approaches in our educational practices of digital learning.
Digital forms of learning are an essential part of schooling to reshape the foundations of e-learning approaches. This has resulted in “Student learning facilitated by the technology that gives them some elements of control over the time, place, pathways of student empowerment at the learner’s own pace”.
Learning is therefore, is no longer restricted to the school day or school year. One of the greatest benefits of digital education is that it can help to enhance student accountability across the school levels. Hence the new terminology of Hybrid and Flipped learning, which are a mix of face-face and online instruction support , both the types complimenting each other. These are highly useful in problem solving and independent learning, build deeper understanding and can create more engagement in lessons and discussions.
Jabriya Indian School is conscious of its responsibility on these modern initiatives and advances in offering a progressive schooling curriculum for the continued success of its learners.