For overall learning, the development of a learner’s systematic, interpretive and conceptual skills becomes essential as opposed to rote memorisation, and the OTBA provides the teacher with a tool to assess these skills.
PruQuest English
PruQuest English is a communicative course that has been designed keeping in mind increasingly dynamic role of English language in today’s world. the course offers original stories and poems that are based on the themes listed in the National Curriculum Framework 2005. The learners as well as the educator has the opportunity to exploit the course on multiple levels.
Problem-Solving Assessment (PSA)
The activities of PSA aim to provide the learners with the skills of deductive reasoning and critical thinking so that they are able to deal with real-life situations in a more conclusive and methodical manner.
Assessment of Speaking and Listening (ASL)
The primary objective of a language course is to equip learners with a functional knowledge of the language. The assessment of the speaking and listening skills becomes especially important in an ESL context. The ASL tasks in the chapters are complemented by additional ASL tasks, all of which act as instruments for the teacher to analyse the language-learning abilities of the learners.
Summative Assessment
The summative assessment gives the teacher an evaluative tool to gauge the learners’ academic achievement at the end of the designated instructional period.
Formative Assessment
The tasks of formative assessments help the teachers assess the learner’s in-process academic progression. This helps the teacher identify the skills the learners have difficulty acquiring. Support can then be provided to the learners, and instructional techniques can furthermore be accordingly modified.
Life Skills
The questions pertaining to life skills enable and, more importantly, empower the learners to apply the heuristic messages of the text to their own lives and the world around them.
Higher-Order Thinking Skills (HOTS)
The questions pertaining to higher-order thinking skills persuade the learners to think beyond the text, which helps them learn how to discern and focus on the profundity beneath the superficial.
Multiple Intelligences
The course offers a variety in the components that have been formulated keeping in mind the different modalities that the learners may use to acquire language.
PruQuest English is a complete course that comprises the following major components:
- A coursebook
- A workbook for further practice and assessment
- A literature reader to further encourage the students and read and also to introduce them to different types of literature in conjunction with the coursebook
Prudence
Prudence is an amalgamation of original stories and poems and much-loved classic literature. The components are based on varied themes, the expansiveness of which can be seen right from Grade 1. The original content offers a diversity that celebrates the heterogeneity of a modern classroom. This helps establish a connection with the learners and gets them interested in English not just as a subject but as a language, which further gets the learners interested in literature, opening up a vast world for them to explore. Thus, the Prudence English course reflects the ICSE approach towards English.
Additional Practice
Additional speaking and listening practice in the classroom helps the teacher gauge to what extent the skills learnt in the chapters can be applied by the learners to their respective speech.
Test Paper
The test paper at the end of every book helps the teacher access the learners’ progress at the end of specified session.
Thinking Skills
The components help build the learners’ higher-order thinking skills, which helps them acquire the thinking skills needed to comprehend other subjects as well.
Prudence – Life Skills
The components have been designed in such a manner that they impart much-needed life skills to the learners.
Learner Centrism
All lessons, tasks and activities have learner centrism at their core.
Prudence – multiple intelligences
Multiple Intelligences (MIs) forms one of the basic principles of the course. Every chapter has MI icons above the chapter title to indicate which intelligence it makes use of.
Different look at classic literature
The series takes a different look at classic literature and gives a brief introduction about the author/poet and their body of work after the chapter.
Original components engage
The original components engage the learners and make them connect with the English language.
PruQuest English is a complete course that comprises the following major components:
- A coursebook
- A workbook for further practice and assessment
- A literature reader to further encourage the students and read and also to introduce them to different types of literature in conjunction with the coursebook
