New teaching style: By targetting 8 intelligence skills, new school to set a trend

Management committed to changing education style.

KARACHI:

A new school established in the city is focusing on enhancing eight intelligence skills of its students.

The School of Intelligence (SOI), located in PECHS Block 6, takes the responsibility for early childhood development with its focus on enhancing eight intelligence skills - musical-rhythmic, visual-spatial, verbal-linguistic, logical-mathematical, bodily-kinaesthetic, interpersonal, intrapersonal, and naturalistic intelligences, explained the school’s executive director, Dr Shehzad Amin.

The SOI is all set to become a pioneer among schools whose foundation lies on the multiple intelligence skills proposed by Howard Gardner, he said, addressing a press conference on Wednesday at the Karachi Press Club.

“The SOI testifies our belief in the wholesome development of our pupils by exploring and realising their potential using multiple intelligence skills,” he said.

The SOI is the first school of its kind that offers a curriculum based on modern academic syllabus. He added that 100 SOI branches will be opened across the country by the year 2020. Moreover, he announced that special grants will be given to students who cannot afford their world-class education. The SOI will educate one million students through its extended network by 2020, he added.

“We have to rethink how the school is cultivating in a new culture of learning amongst our pupils,” said Dr Amin.

He also highlighted that the SOI is the first school to provide the opportunity to guardians to watch their childrens’ activities live in the classrooms.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 2^nd, 2014.