OUR APPROACH TO TEACHING AND LEARNING
At UST we believe the concept of lifelong learning and the idea that children learn new things every day. Learning should be a rewarding and enjoyable experience for everyone. Through our teaching we equip children with the skills, knowledge and understanding necessary to make informed choices about the important things in their future lives. Appropriate and effective teaching and learning experiences help children lead happy and rewarding lives.
At our school, we provide a rich and varied learning environment that allows children to develop their skills and abilities to their highest potential while having fun.
Effective learning
We acknowledge that children learn in many different ways. We recognize the need to develop strategies that allow all children to learn in ways that suit them best and enable them to make the best possible progress. We take into account these different forms of intelligence and learning styles when our teachers plan and teach.
We offer opportunities for children to learn in different ways, including:
At UST we believe in differentiated teaching. Matching teaching to the different learning needs of the children in the class is important to us for the following reasons:
At our school, we provide a rich and varied learning environment that allows children to develop their skills and abilities to their highest potential while having fun.
Effective learning
We acknowledge that children learn in many different ways. We recognize the need to develop strategies that allow all children to learn in ways that suit them best and enable them to make the best possible progress. We take into account these different forms of intelligence and learning styles when our teachers plan and teach.
We offer opportunities for children to learn in different ways, including:
- Investigation and problem solving
- Research and inquisitive thinking
- Group work, pair work, independent work, whole-class work
- Asking and answering questions
- Presentations and show-and-tells
- Use of ICT and STEM
- Field trips and visits to places of educational interest; Guest visitors and performer
- Child-centered creative activities
- Learning through musical activities
- Participation in athletic or physical activities, as well as in international school meets
- Participation in after-school clubs
At UST we believe in differentiated teaching. Matching teaching to the different learning needs of the children in the class is important to us for the following reasons:
- Children learn at different pace and in different ways
- Children start off with different knowledge, skills and understanding
- All children are entitled to access to a broad and balanced curriculum
- It helps raise standards by enabling children to reach their full potential
- It helps keep behavior difficulties to a minimum. Children who are well motivated and on task, doing activities that are closely matched to their skills and abilities are less likely to misbehave.
