{"id":206,"date":"2018-08-13T06:59:36","date_gmt":"2018-08-13T02:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/renaissanceschool.ae\/?page_id=206"},"modified":"2018-12-16T11:07:06","modified_gmt":"2018-12-16T07:07:06","slug":"innovation-across-the-school","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.renaissanceschool.ae\/our-school\/innovation-across-the-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovation across the School"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Innovation across the School<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We firmly believe that the prime focus of the drive for innovation in the school should be the students. Students are at their best when they are creative, imaginative, flexible, problem-solving and entrepreneurial. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As the school grows and develops, the Student Council will have the foremost role in our approach. It will be for them to suggest and promote ideas for changing the classroom and the school \u2013 physically and culturally. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We have started by introducing \u2018green\u2019 measures to save resources in the school and the work can extend to students taking responsibility for areas of the school\u2019s operations. It is important to place the first responsibility with students but this does not mean that future work will be un-guided or unsupervised. Our experience is that students respond well to the responsibility and our belief is that this form of student engagement is going to be a growing trend. Indeed, we believe higher student engagement will be an innovation itself in the global development of schools.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The lead for innovation will\u00a0 be evident in the school as both a top-down and bottom-up force. The governors and Principal will champion innovation and enterprise. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They will constantly pose challenges to the student body. Teachers will follow this through in every subject. The students will be expected, encouraged and supported to find solutions to real-world challenges. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By working with students, we will examine how to build innovative thinking and responses into every school feature and process.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We consider the important infrastructure to be cultural and intellectual: it is the whole school that should have \u2018the expectation that students will respond innovatively\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Innovation across the School We firmly believe that the prime focus of the drive for innovation in the school should be the students. Students are at their best when they are creative, imaginative, flexible, problem-solving and entrepreneurial. As the school grows and develops, the Student Council will have the foremost role in our approach. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":194,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"our_school.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.renaissanceschool.ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/206"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.renaissanceschool.ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.renaissanceschool.ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.renaissanceschool.ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.renaissanceschool.ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.renaissanceschool.ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4823,"href":"https:\/\/www.renaissanceschool.ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/206\/revisions\/4823"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.renaissanceschool.ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.renaissanceschool.ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}