IDEALS

onto which your Illustrious Institution got founded upon and is pursuing them with full force
(come what may) carving out a fascinating future…

MGIS founded in 1998, is the only Public-Private Partnership model between the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation, Municipal School Board and educationalists, Dr. Pascal Chazot and Dr. Anju Chazot. 

The school was established with the vision of achieving international standards of educational quality. This indicates a commitment to providing a high-quality learning experience. 

The school’s mission includes integrating all sections of society, suggesting a commitment to inclusivity and diversity. 

The school was the precursor to the Right to Education Act and has been providing equal opportunities and inclusive education by reaching out to the elite, the middle class and the economically disadvantaged by providing partial and full need based scholarships to students. 

The school’s history and mission reflect a dedication to social responsibility and a belief in the transformative power of education. By providing opportunities and scholarships, it contributes to creating a more equitable and inclusive educational landscape. 

The holistic report card initiated and implemented by MGIS since 1999, is now a part of National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, to be implemented nation wide. 

MGIS is the first school to be awarded permission to offer BTEC (Business Technical Education Council) in 2011 and it is also the first in the Country to offer the IBCP (International Baccalaureate Career-related Programme) in 2019.

MGIS has had international association with UKIERI and Dudley College where in both exchange of pedagogy and cultural exchange have been achieved. MGIS is a partner school of the Mission Laique Francaise since 2011, an autonomous body under the French Ministry of Education, managing French schools worldwide. 

MGIS also has an ongoing educational exchange with the prestigious French high school in Paris, Lycée St Germain en Laye, since 2008. The Ecole Lemon school located in the suburbs of Paris has implemented the MGIS pedagogy since 2017. 

MGIS is now creating its own label for Joyful Co-creative Experiential Learning partnering with companies like Data for Good and The Global Sustainable Enterprise System in Netherlands. 

MGIS has partnered With Tata Trusts, Tata Institute Of Social Sciences (TISS), National Education Society for Tribal Students 

(NESTS run under the Ministry of Tribal Affairs and Central Board Of Secondary Education (CBSE – The National Board under the Ministry Of education). 

MGIS is collaborating with the National Council For Education Research And Training (NCERT) for guidelines for text books as per the NEP 2020 and integration of Toy based pedagogy.

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VISION 2047 

which you have kept for yourself in tandem with the larger National Vision and how do you propose to accomplish the same…

Mahatma Gandhi International School (MGIS), founded in 1998, is a Public-Private Partnership model between the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation, Municipal School Board and educationalists, Dr. Pascal Chazot and Dr. Anju Kawr Chazot.

MGIS is student-centric and functions on democratic principles of self-governance.
It has created a space for experiential learning through projects with real life links.
It was the first international school in Gujarat, the first school in the state to use Apple technology and the first school in India to offer skill development courses affiliated to Edexcel BTEC. 
MGIS has a strong international and national education exchange program with France, Australia, South Korea, USA and Ladakh (India).

The school integrates a Center for Action Research in Education and a Center for Teacher Training. 
In addition to in-house training, MGIS founders and senior faculty have mentored schools of various boards to implement the MGIS trademark ‘Generated Resource Learning TM’ pedagogy.

It has a Triadic Structure

A. Research
The school houses a Center for Action Research in Education (CARE) which is the site for action research projects in the field of education that drive the teacher training center and the classroom pedagogy at MGIS.
B. School
The school is the space where teachers trained in the Teacher Training Center (ADEPT) implement the pedagogical tools and teaching strategies developed in the in-house action research centre (CARE).

C. Teacher Training
ADEPT the in-house teacher training Centre of MGIS. At ADEPT, teachers from across of the world learn from the MGIS faculty. Fairly recently, the Human Resources Department, India launched Online Teacher Training Course on Experiential Learning in July 2020 in collaboration with the school. 

MGIS Pedagogy is now available to 12,00,000 teachers across India. It is made mandatory by Central Board of Secondary Education.

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YOGIC SELF

Frontiers to which your Institution has chosen to engage with expanding its institutional consciousness & impacting the same in some way…say Advanced Research, Entrepreneurship, Social Upliftment et al

The school has developed written mission statements and ‘Generated Resources Learning TM’ pedagogy. 

The school is committed to providing quality education to students from all sections of the society. To this end the school integrates students from diverse socio-economic backgrounds as well as diverse abilities into the mainstream classroom. 

These statements are well defined, systematically reviewed, and implemented throughout the school. 

They outline the school’s values and communicate a clear purpose for student growth and development.