Page 14 - Reliance Foundation School Koparkhairane - School Magazine - Zenith 2020-21

The School Year Unlike Any Other

Despite all the fears and challenges, the school embraced the pandemic situation

and rose to the occasion and provided end-to-end support to all the staff and
students in their digital transformation journey. Continuous training was provided

to effectively transform digitally. Microsoft Teams helped a seamless transition
from offline to remote learning. The school made sure that all are uniquely
positioned to deal with this unprecedented situation. The school took the

initiative of enhancing its staff's technical knowledge, competence, skill and
effectiveness by providing specialised training in the latest pedagogy and digital

classroom practices.

• Frequently Encountered Doubts (FED) • Enrichment classes are conducted for the high
Project commenced in the month of November achievers and they are supported by providing
2020 under the guidance of Reliance resources in the form of differential worksheets,
Foundation School Academic Council question banks and audio-visual aids.
• Seamless transition to virtual school - a • The school facilitates asynchronous learning by
(RFSAC) collated the frequently encountered
thoughtfully planned and implemented model posting pre-recorded lessons, PowerPoint • The digital library provides a seamless and rich
doubts in the question papers by the students
with the focus on student engagement and their presentations, audio-visual resources, reading experience and facilitates high-quality
optimum learning supplementary reading material, assignments during the board examination. reading to our students and staff irrespective of

and worksheets. • The teachers curated a list of simulation videos the disruption caused by the pandemic.
• The Microsoft Teams for Education on the
to illustrate scientific concepts to the students.
Office 365 Education suite, serves as the • Teachers have prepared, collated and curated These videos are mapped to the curriculum to • The digital library actively shares eBooks, PDFs,
platform for virtual school. various high-quality resources like videos, website links and authentic articles on various
meet the needs of the students. The virtual facets of education with the staff and students. It
• Teachers are continually trained and mentored weblinks, PDF documents, tasks, activities, laboratory provides the students with a chance also provides access to various digital libraries to
to use the technology effectively and provide a assignments and projects to enhance students' to perform experiments using the internet and the students, faculty and admin members.
seamless learning experience to all students. learning experiences. visual aids without having the equipment at
• Life skill classes are designed to address gender
their end.
• Our teachers continued their learning by • The school successfully conducted Periodic and sensitivity, value education, time management,
acquiring Microsoft Innovative Educator and Unit Tests, Assessments, and Term Examinations • Teachers create podcasts that help the students study skills, stress management, internet safety,
Adobe Creative Educator certifications. for all students using Exam.net, a secure exam to learn at the pace that they choose. Students interpersonal skills, bullying, growing-up
platform, and Microsoft Forms. Teachers who miss the class also use these podcasts to challenges and common issues of adolescents.
• Students have been actively engaged in learning
provided timely and effective feedback to cover up the lesson.
through a suite of learning tools employed by the • “Ummang”, a celebration, with a designated
educators, such as OneNote, Class Notebook, students using these tools to reinforce the • Morning assemblies, dance and music classes theme is held for all the teaching and non-
learning process.
Adobe Spark, Stream, Yammer, SharePoint, were held virtually, and participation in online teaching staff every month. The entire staff gets
Flipgrid, Polly, Mindmeister, Prezi etc. The • Collaborative Library Project/School Library cultural festivals and competitions was an opportunity to express themselves through a
virtual environment also enabled teachers and Project commenced on 21 September 2020, encouraged and supported by the teachers. variety of creative forms, such as singing, dancing
students to explore creative content development under the guidance of Reliance Foundation • The school takes every measure possible to and other performing arts. Birthdays of the
using Adobe Spark for Education. School Academic Council (RFSAC), in understand the needs and requirements of the month are also celebrated in the event.

• The school provides students with a blended collaboration with librarians and teaching students in the virtual classes. To provide the • Covid awareness sessions were organised for
learning experience every day – a fine blend of faculty of Reliance Foundation Schools, low achievers with timely extra help to complete the students, teaching and non-teaching staff
synchronous instruction, asynchronous collated the educational resources for classes 1 their work, remedial classes are initiated in most to assist them in handling challenging situations
resources support and assessment practices. to 12 from authentic websites. of the subjects. constructively.

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