SCHOOL POLICY FOR PROMOTING INNOVATION
Bal Bharati Public School, Rohini fosters a dynamic teaching-learning methodology that cultivates a culture of innovation. Encouraging experimentation, the school is committed to embracing change by proactively exploring new ideas and establishing innovation as a norm. The principal will lead this vision by instilling a spirit of innovation among teachers and students, fostering a school culture that is agile, flexible, and adaptable—while serving as an innovator herself.
Innovation influences various aspects of the school ecosystem, including teaching-learning practices, classroom design, educational technologies, learning spaces (both physical and virtual), and community partnerships. These innovations may be implemented at both individual and institutional levels, with broader ‘system innovations’ introduced to drive holistic transformation. While innovation is driven by the need to solve problems, good practices may lead to solutions organically, whereas best practices focus on achieving excellence and setting benchmarks.
Actionable-s
- Create a culture of innovation.
- Build expertise, knowledge and necessary skills of teachers and students.
- Provide the freedom to explore and the time for ideas to incubate and develop.
- Allow flexibility and risk-taking, with no fear of judgement, celebrating failure with a “wall of persistent effort”.
- Regularly conduct meetings with teachers, parents and community members to explore ways to seek support for innovations towards enhancing student learning.
- Provide intellectual stimulation by bringing together groups of students and teachers of diverse interests, subject knowledge and skill sets to work together.
- Promote a growth mindset where failure is seen as a stepping stone to success. •Regularly conduct meetings with teachers, parents and community members to explore ways to seek support for innovations towards enhancing student learning.
- Expand perspectives of teachers to implement innovative pedagogies.
- Promote collective responsibility among teachers by encouraging team teaching, shadow teaching etc. for designing innovative pedagogies.
- Develop professional learning communities for sharing ideas, best practices and innovation.
- Encourage and support teachers to try out new ideas.
- Encourage collaboration set aside time for common planning through faculty meetings, peer observations and shared weekly diaries.
- Lead discussions on alternative practices and their relative merits.
- Challenge teachers to try innovative pedagogies and provide opportunities to reflect on their experiences.
- Explore technology platforms, tools, gamifications and applications for not only enhancing instructional practices such as blended and flipped learning but also to be used for CWSN.
- Create opportunities for student learning and innovation.
- Allow for exciting juxtaposition of ideas that is free from rigid subject boundaries.
- Encourage inquiry-based learning by building critical thinking and problem-solving approach.
- Focus on competency building by encouraging application of concepts, experiential and hands-on learning through innovations.
- Provide opportunity to work on projects dealing with real world problems through design thinking for innovative solutions.
- Give voice to student ideas, encouraging them to take initiatives at school.
- Widen students’ perspectives and horizons by inviting experts from different fields. • Encourage students to undertake courses, summer projects in their areas of interest under the guidance of subject specialists.
- Develop skills and behaviours needed for innovations and encourage self-reliance by providing opportunities like genius hour, coding hour, STEM lab and online/ digital platforms.
Assessment
Regular updates and checks about how innovations are being translated in classrooms and in school situations need to be carried out for all stages of schooling as it will help identify new needs for which innovations have the potential to provide solutions. Reflection and analysis would then feed forward towards helping the school determine its next steps towards improving its practice.
SCHOOL INNOVATION CELL (SIC) –BBPSRH
Bal Bharati Public School, Rohini established a School Innovation Council in the academic year 2023-24. The Program aims to foster the culture of Innovation, Ideation, Creativity, Design Thinking and Entrepreneurship, sensitize students to the needs of society and motivate them to look for their plausible solutions, and thus design inclusive innovations.
Under the School Innovation Council multi-dimensional activities are conducted, which are both SIC driven and School Driven. The SIC activities are conducted as per the calendar provided by MoE. The school driven activities include organizing a variety of workshops and sessions by leading Educationalists, School Alumni as well as by successful Entrepreneurs having their own startups. The students also participate in School Innovation Challenge, wherein they contribute ideas, develop prototypes, and come up with Business plans to pitch their ideas. Besides students are also taken for field visits to nearby incubation centers to give them an opportunity to learn about the emerging start-ups. The students are also a part of another initiative BBPSRH SHARKS wherein students make a healthy beverage/snack to be sold in school, set up stalls, purchase raw materials, develop business plan, do marketing to sell their product, make financial projects and do the analysis of the profit margins, thereby progressing as budding entrepreneurs.
