Academics
Academics at Akshara has five key components:
- The pre-primary curriculum has been designed by Dr. Vinita Apte, who is an authority on ECE (Early Childhood Education). It includes carefully designed competency and skill based programme, along with provision for a wide range of experiences and materials to foster and enhance physical, motor, social, emotional, aesthetic and intellectual development.
- The school being affiliated to the Central Board of Secondary Education, Delhi (CBSE) follows the curriculum defined by NCERT from Grade VI onwards.
- At senior secondary level the school offers CBSE curriculum in Science, Humanities and Commerce streams
- New methods of Teaching like use of LCD, Audio-Visual, Story Method, Exploration and Research, Group Discussions (Debate) are used to make learning an enjoyable experience. Technology resources like digital white boards, projectors and internet enable the integration of digital multimedia content with the text books material in the teaching-learning process across all classes.
- An activity based experiential learning approach has been adopted to stimulate the development of multiple intelligences, inherent in each child.
- Skill subjects like Informatics, Artificial Intelligence, Design Thinking are introduced from Grade 6.
- Comprehensive and Continuous Evaluation has been adopted for scientific assessment of student learning. . The small class size allows the teacher to monitor the learning progress of each child and recommend Remedial / Advanced Learning based on the progress.
The infrastructure has been carefully designed to enable the learning process. For example, the pre-primary section is on the ground floor and designed for easy access to resources like Doll House, outdoor play area, sand pit and cycling track. The secondary section has well equipped science labs, maths lab, computer lab, internet lab and library.
