Transforming Schools
Empowering Children
- Arun Kapur - Director, Vasant Valley School, New Delhi
Arun Kapur, a leading educator, weaves together his expertise and experience to offer insights into what makes a ‘great’ school. He provides the tools and resources for directing a school on its journey with a growth plan for all stakeholders in a school–students, teachers, administrators and parents.
Some of the issues discussed are:
- Rationale and purpose of a school
- Curriculum design
- Models of assessment
- Impact of technology
- Teacher training
- Leadership and management
- Individualised learning
- Inclusive education
Transforming Schools…can be a valuable guide for those teachers, who, aware of the out-datedness of the present education system, are eager to re-create it along new lines. Kapur underlines the importance of increased interaction between students and teachers. He shows how the low priority accorded to teaching as a profession has resulted in a lack of motivation among those who take up the job.
Kapur suggests a four-pronged approach towards evaluation that combines four wheels of learning: academics, arts, physical fitness and the outreach.
The author…weaves together his experience as a teacher to offer insights into the changes required in the school environment to confront increasingly complex social situations.
Transforming Schools…hopes to initiate dialogues on teaching and learning, and points out what goes into making a great school.
This book can be of immense help to teachers for it introduces a variety of methods that could pave way for them to achieve success in and out of school. Arun Kapur has rightly pointed out that the school; of yesteryears prepared social layers….The book gives a vision of a great school as it ought to be in the modern times.
Transforming Schools- Empowering Children is an analytical study of what ingredients are required to establish a great school…Inclusion of personalised examples and figures makes this book unique.