Our Teachers and Teaching philosophy

The face of any school is its academic facilitators who always update their knowledge and skills to assist students in their learning activities. The academic facilitators at Preston are professionally trained with continuous assessments to improve their academic capabilities and evaluations.

They facilitate to:

• Design, plan and execute teaching pedagogies that allow students to integrate knowledge.
• Attend regular trainings to improve the overall learning environment for Students by connecting knowledge to other subject areas and everyday life.
• Use the concept of Multiple Intelligence and learning strategies to engage Students in active learning.
• Understands factors and situations that are likely to promote motivation and help Students to foster their lifelong growth and learning.
• Implement learning resource material and activities to ensure all round learning and development among Students.
• Use varied and appropriate formal and informal assessment tools and techniques for judging the progress of a child such as observation, portfolios of Student work, worksheets, projects, peer assessment, and standardized test.
• Engage Students in individual and group learning activities that help them to develop the motivation to achieve, by relating activities to students' personal interests, allowing Students to have choices in their learning.
• Effectively utilize the out of school areas as an extension of the classroom-learning environment.
  

“Teaching not only for School, but for Life”, is what Preston International Academy follows and believes to focus in. We aim to provide students the important stepping stone to lead to success and to a world of competitive choice.

Pre-Primary Section (Nursery to KG)
Pre-Primary education sets the tone of a child's learning away from home, in a structured format, and serves as a starting point for formal education. Being in an important phase of their development, these young children deserve all the care and attention as they are initiated to this new world of learning. At this stage, children are active and curious to learn and would love to play and engage in activities that would interest them. Pre-Primary Learning at Preston International Academy is informal and is done through play-way method using specially designed aids.

Primary Section (Class I to V)
Schooling at the primary level initiates children into building on their existing knowledge and enthusiasm for continued learning. As they progress through this stage, we see in action their exploratory spirit and quest for knowledge acquisition, motivated by the love of learning that they have imbibed. At this level, the emphasis is on the learning and understanding of concepts. Therefore, the curriculum ought to be engaging and relevant, yet challenging. Our primary curriculum reflects these changing needs of the young learners and is designed to be age appropriate and progressive in nature. The various activities offered enable children to explore their multiple talents.

Middle Section (Class VI to X)
At the Middle School stage the academic challenges increase and the curriculum is broadened to match the growing abilities of students in assimilating information and grasping abstract ideas. This phase also characterizes a transition from childhood to challenges of adolescence, involving intense physical and psychological changes. Extending the frontiers of educational exposure and experience provided by the primary program, the focus in the middle school program is on strengthening the knowledge, skills and competencies of the child through comprehensive, innovative and creative learning activities. All this is done giving due regard to the multiple intelligence of each individual child.

Secondary, Senior Secondary Section (IX to XII)
Here, academic challenges with extracurricular activities become more exhaustive. Our highly experienced staff work together with students to clear their concepts of each subjects by examples, experiments, case studies, project works, assignments, data collection, putting them in proper context and carrying out the inferential analysis and so on. Our staff inculcates our students to meet the requirements of growing world on all dimensions.

The teaching practices at Preston International Academy would be hands-on and activity-based learning where the emphasis would be to develop the unique talents and interests of each young pupil with utilization of Worksheets, Project method, Circle Time, Group Discussions, Essay & Articles Writing, Public Speaking, Problem Solving, Brain storming, Inductive Methods, E-learning methods, School Parliament, and Case Studies.