Grace Schools have been certified as HP Innovation and Digital Education Academy (Idea) School.
Newsonline reports that Grace Schools, Gbagada Lagos have been certified by HP as Innovation and Digital Idea School with over 130 Grace Schools Educators becoming HP IDEA Associates while 8 Educators are HP IDEA Fellows. Grace Schools have also been certified and decorated as High Profile HP IDEA Schools.
The Schools’ Certification and Decoration came as a result of the involvement of eight staff that went through a year-long Fellow Innovation & Digital Education Academy (IDEA) Programme, organized by Hewlett-Packard (HP) in collaboration with ITEL.
HP IDEA (Innovation & Digital Education Academy) platform marks a school’s commitment to transforming their digital pedagogies to flourish in the 21st century and keep themselves agile and inventive.
The involvement of the school in the programme helped in promoting:
• The development of effective teacher-leaders
• Embedding and scaling effective teaching skills
• Supporting teachers’ and students’ innovation and entrepreneurship through:
i. Developing a cadre of effective online and blended learning teachers
ii. Improving the quality and relevance of in-service teacher training
iii. Supporting the growth of teacher-generated content
iv. Improving workforce
v. Strengthening public-private partnerships.
Grace Schools HP IDEA Fellows were able to leverage the existing digital tools in the school to develop effective, scalable practices focused on teaching and learning in hybrid or blended learning models while adapting Collaborative domain of High Leverage Teaching Practices (HLTP) as major area of research.
The Executive Director, Grace Schools, Mrs. Olatokunbo Edun says the school has remained focused in improving the capabilities of the teachers. She says the school has remained focused in enhancing the skills of the teachers in order to provide thorough and qualitative academic service delivery.
She asserted further that human capacity development has been a major prority for Grace Schools in order to remain institutions of choice offering holistic globally rated educational service.
The graduation ceremony witnessed dignitaries from HP top management team, Mirai Partners (an education innovation consultancy), Ministry of Education personnel, Educators and Education Leaders from Middle East and Africa.
Due to the rigorous and intensive projects, conferences and innovation sessions, only a handful of schools were able to complete the program in Nigeria and The United Arab Emirate.
