Pathways School, Noida

About Us

The academic systems at Pathways follow a fourfold track: Pathways Early Years Programme for Pre Primary children, The International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme (Pre Nursery to Grade 5), Middle Years Programme (Grade 6 to 10) and Diploma Programme or the IB Career-related Programme (Grades 11 & 12). Pathways were the first 'IB Continuum School' in North India.

All the systems are international, relevant to the challenges of the 21st Century and accepted for entrance to first-class universities throughout the world, including those of India, Australia, Singapore, the United Kingdom and the United States of America.

Teaching at Pathways is student-centered, project-based, and incorporates the multiple intelligences concept. While the general curriculum is followed by every student, he or she is also encouraged to develop talents and interests in personal areas of academic interest, and in sport, theatre music and dance, for which facilities are outstanding.

"Technology is extensively used as a learning tool at Pathways. Every Secondary School student is required to carry a laptop computer that is linked by campus-wide radio-networking. The controlled-temperature environment is ideal for a relaxed and purposeful study. There are first class Science facilities, a spacious Library-Media-Centre and well-equipped studios for Art and Craft-Design-Technology."

Methodology & Learning Styles

"Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?" - TS Eliot

This statement encapsulates one of our major objectives. A key skill in an age when we are constantly bombarded with information and pseudo-information is the ability to sift the evidence and come to our own conclusions. The Pathways approach to learning encourages the development of this skill, not just because the IB curriculum demands it but because survival can depend upon it.

Student Centred Learning

Pathways methodology concentrates first on the student's aptitudes, then on the skills and knowledge s/he needs to acquire. Traditional education tends to value a limited range of knowledge and skills but more recent research suggests that intelligence is not unitary but multiple. Pathways aims to give students a broader, deeper, richer educational experience by recognizing each student's strongest talents and building on them in order to ensure that all the areas of talent are developed.

Multiple Intelligences Theory: A Learning Tool

The Multiple Intelligences research of Dr. Howard Gardner of Harvard University provides a new insight into student-centered learning. Much of traditional education values a very limited range of abilities, centering on literacy and numeracy. However different individuals have different aptitudes. By using the strongest aptitudes or 'intelligences' as a starting point we can educate more effectively by teaching different students the same topic in different ways according to their particular 'intelligences'. In a class situation, this approach allows students to benefit from each other's strengths and to develop their competence in their weaker as in their stronger 'intelligences'. Gardner identified eight 'intelligences':

Linguistic

Developed at Pathways through such activities as creative writing, literature, foreign language learning, theatre, debating and public speaking.

Logical-Mathematical

Developed at Pathways through such activities as science and maths projects and experiments, industrial design, stock-market games and helping to run the student store.

Musical

Developed at Pathways through such activities as playing, directing studying and composing classical and contemporary music.

Bodily-Kinesthetic

Developed at Pathways through such activities as sports and athletics, yoga, modeling, textile-making, contemporary and classical dance.

Spatial

Developed at Pathways through such activities as sculpture, drawing and painting, photography and geography.

Naturalist

Developed at Pathways through such activities as ecology, gardening, wildlife observation, biological and chemical experiments.

Inter-Personal

Developed at Pathways through such activities as group projects, peer teaching and counselling, media work (including student magazines and the Yearbook) and international exchange programmes.

Intra-Personal

Developed at Pathways through self-awareness training, counselling and the creation of physical and personal space for meditation, reflection and tranquility.

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