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The activity learning laboratory at Sunbeam School Ballia, its worktables set out for group work.

Teaching Methodology

Three things, named by the school — and not one of them is a special lesson.

The method, in the school’s words

In all areasof teaching.

Sunbeam School Ballia states its method in one sentence, and the last few words are the part that matters:

“Incorporate Technology, a theory of Multiple Intelligence and Collaborative learning in all areas of teaching.”

Three things, and none of them a timetabled slot. There is no collaboration lesson and no multiple-intelligence week — the claim is that all three run through ordinary teaching, which is a harder thing to promise and a harder thing to fake.

Two students of Sunbeam School Ballia sharing a desk, one reaching across for a colour pencil while the other works on her own drawing
The activity learning laboratory at Sunbeam School Ballia — one crescent table with chairs set all the way round it

The three, unpacked

Named, and each oneanchored to something

A method is only worth reading if each part of it points at something checkable. All three of Sunbeam’s do — two to the Principal’s own published words, and one to a certification held by a hundred members of staff.

  1. Technology

    100 Microsoft Innovative Educator Experts

    The certification that makes Sunbeam a Microsoft Showcase School. The rooms it runs in are set out on Smart Classrooms & Digital Literacy.

    Smart Classrooms

  2. Multiple Intelligence

    “All the students do not have the same talents.”

    Teaching that looks for different strengths, not a single mould.

  3. Collaborative Learning

    Classrooms as “places of curiosity and collaboration.”

    Learning with others, from others, because others think differently.

What collaboration looks like when it is real

One basketof thread.

The word “collaborative” survives on most school sites without ever touching a photograph. Here it does.

In the school’s own embroidery session the students are not each issued a kit — they work from one shared basket of thread, which means the thing a child needs next is in somebody else’s hand.

The cooking activity is built the same way: one demonstration table, a class in paper chef hats around it, and no version of the task that can be completed alone.

Neither is a lesson called Collaboration. That is the school’s point — it is in the shape of an ordinary activity rather than in a slot on the timetable.

Students of Sunbeam School Ballia sitting in a circle on the floor, embroidering from one shared basket of thread between them
A teacher at Sunbeam School Ballia demonstrating at the table during the papadi chaat activity, her class in paper chef hats gathered around her

And the second of the three

Different talents,different platforms.

“All the students do not have the same talents” is easy to say and expensive to act on — acting on it means running enough different things that a child who is not academic still has somewhere to be good. The school’s own published record is the evidence.

  1. 01

    Speaking

    Class I entered an inter-branch Attire Speak competition; Class IV took the top three places in a group-wide declamation.

  2. 02

    Making

    Folk painting under Impetus, embroidery, and the Srijan making-and-design room.

  3. 03

    Building

    The Robotics Lab, and a second place at an international robotics championship.

  4. 04

    The field

    Kho-kho gold, chess, handball, taekwondo — a sporting record stronger than most.

Three things,everywhere.

The school publishes its method, the Principal’s words behind two of the three, and the certification behind the first. It does not publish lesson plans, a scheme of work, or an observation framework — so no lesson shape is described here.