The 8 Facets of Ingenium
1. Small Class Sizes
One student at a time. Our outlook towards providing quality basic education requires dedicated focus to each student as a learner. At Ingenium, class sizes are strictly enforced to maintain 1 faculty to 7.5 student ratio.
Grade School and High School classes are limited to 30 students per class. Preschool classes are limited to 12 students, with two dedicated teachers.
Aside from our faculty, the school community consists of other full-time employees dedicated to our students:
- Guidance Counsellor
- Nurses
- Librarians
- Information Technology Personnel
- Janitors
- Maintenance Crew
- Drivers
The focus: quality formation of each student.
2. World-Class Facilities
Adequate physical facilities, equipment, and educational resources are needed to carry out our educational task. Their level of quality is one measure of the seriousness and capacity of the school to provide quality education. The quality and care of a school’s physical facilities are indicators of the pride the school has in its work and the respect it has for its students.
Campus life at Ingenium thrives in two multi-storey buildings, designed with our students in mind. Each proudly feature first class facilities and equipment for each and every student to enjoy.
The Grade School and High School
Inaugurated in 2011, the Grade School and High School building consists of four levels. The building boasts of airy and open feeling thanks to expansive corridors, floor-to-ceiling windows, broad open quadrangle, and wide student ramps and staircases.
Read more about our facilities here.
3. Effective Methodologies
As a progressive school, Ingenium taps into the various teaching methodologies, both traditional and modern, as called for:
- Integrated and Literature-based Learning
- Project Approach and Enquiry method/Experiential Learning
- Montessori Techniques
- Mindfulness
- Brain-based Learning
- Social-Emotional Learning
The Objectives: For each student to be curious and enquiring, develop skills and habits of independent sourcing of information, grow in critical understanding, learn from mistakes, and cooperate and support one another in learning.
4. Solid Educational Philosophy
A particularly strong feature of Ingenium, founded on deep theoretical understanding, and validated in professional experience.
Among its educational principles:
- The early years of the child are the most critical and effective intervention years in his/her life’s development.
- The learner is the student. Teachers are midwives to inspire, stimulate, guide, facilitate, correct, encourage the students’ learning effort.
- Love, rather than fear is the more effective lasting motivation for learning.
- Learning is a cumulative developmental process: later stages build upon earlier stages. Hence, the goal is the mastery of the basic skills.
- Learning is a life-long process. Hence, the importance of forming the habit and love of learning.
- Learning thrives in a happy and stimulating environment.
The Challenge:
To continually discover and innovate methods, tools, and techniques in order to imbed these principles in every aspect of Ingenium’s institutional culture.
5. Focused Faculty and Personnel
Ingenium Faculty undergo continual training and formation, both professionally and in terms of personal development, with special consultants and other resource persons.
The Focus: to guide each student, not only academically, but also in their personal development and social-emotional growth.
Each class has a Class Advisor.
All faculty receive added support from:
- The Academic Coordinator
- Subject Area Heads
- Student Activity Coordinator
- Faculty Development Coordinator
- Reading Specialist
6. Clear Vision and Goals
The Vision: For a Better Philippines.
Human society is made up of institutions, of which the family is the most basic, Institutions are human creations, competent and motivated for service, the Ingenium graduate can change society for the better as he/she engages life through the institutions of the Philippine society.
The formation goals that will propel such change agents for the better are captured in Ingenium’s Core Values:
CIVITAS – Citizenship
Each person is responsible for the society.
SAPIENTA – Wisdom
Wise choice and action are founded on truth.
CARITAS – Love and Compassion
Leave no one behind.
The model for the living out of these core values: The Man, Jesus.
7. Hands-On Management
The leadership challenge for an institution with a vision has always been execution: can that vision, so well expressed in words on paper, be actualized in the day-to-day operations of the institution?
The mission of Ingenium is the personal mission of its co-founders. Thus, hands-on management by the founders characterizes the administration of the school, and ensures the faithful pursuit of its vision and mission.
8. Joyful Learning Culture
There is joy in learning, there is joy in sharing, there is joy in learning and sharing together with others. Such joy is the fertile soil of excellence.
The institutional culture of Ingenium is captured by the preschool tagline:
“Where God’s-given talents blossom in joy.”