Learning
Student Support
Student Support
HPS welcomes students from numerous different backgrounds and abilities. While we ensure that our education is student-centred on all levels, we also understand that our students are unique individual with their own talents and difficulties. Student support helps ensure our students feel engaged by their education, not overwhelmed.
Social-Emotional Learning
HPS aims to provide a strong foundation for a lifetime of social and emotional wellbeing by providing an emotionally safe and nurturing school environment.
Habib Public School is committed to developing students’ basic social and emotional faculties due to the very crucial role these play in a child’s development and ability to learn. According to modern research, well developed interpersonal skills are key to a child’s readiness to learn, persist, and collaborate with their peers. At HPS, we take the cultivation of these soft skills very seriously and do our very best to ensure a safe and nurturing environment for our students.
SEL Counselors
Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) at HPS is spearheaded by a variety of highly qualified and equipped counsellors. These counselors oversee the arrangement of periodic seminars, workshops, and 1-on-1 sessions to cater to the numerous social and emotional needs of our students, their parents, and HPS staff. SEL instruction at HPS is uniquely designed to establish a positive and supportive school environment, where all our scholars are equipped with the learning supports that they may need to flourish at school.
SEL Goals
HPS’ SEL program aims to:
Self Awareness
Help children develop self awareness and the skills to effectively manage difficult emotions and behaviors.
Enhancing Empathy
Nurture a sense of empathy and understanding for others so as to foster healthy and positive social relationships.
Understanding feelings
Help students be intune with their feelings and teach them the art of effective and responsible decision making.
Nurturing Trust
Create a school environment that allows students and teachers to come together and develop healthy, trusting relationships.
Teaching Techniques
There is a range of activities and strategies our teachers incorporate to enhance learning. With the younger age group, the teachers’ primary role is to coach and facilitate the students. Inquiry-based learning is one of the most used methodology where the teachers encourage students to ask questions and consider what they want to know. Read below to see other techniques our teachers utilise to aid learning:
1. Expeditionary Learning
The expeditionary learning allows students to find information through experience. It can be finding statistics about pollution in the city, reading information and traveling to different areas or localities that have been impacted by the problem.
2. Game-based Strategy
Game-based strategy is also used with such learners, where students work on quests to accomplish a specific goal by choosing actions and experimenting along the way. As students make certain progress or achievements, they can earn badges and experience points, just like they would in their favourite video games.
3. Peer Coaching
At higher levels peer coaching while creating bubbles of mixed ability students, the teacher assigns tasks to the mentor of the group to do peer coaching to help the slow learners increase their pace with ease and without hesitation. Co-teaching also helps students master different concepts when they become teachers in class to handle certain topics to be discussed and explained.