A career at Pasxcel offers you the chance to make a positive difference in the world. Independently owned and independently minded, we attract a diverse mix of people to work on transforming the education industry as well as the lives of each and every member of our community (educators, team mates, parents and students).
We are truly global (with students from over 13 countries) and diverse (with educators who are ex-doctors, physicists, chartered accountants and vice-principals).
We strive to maintain our culture that is based on performance while providing the best care to our team mates.
We offer a competitive remuneration package commensurate with qualifications and experience to the right candidate including profit sharing scheme, health care (dental and optical care), flexible working hours and long-term career development opportunities.
We welcome applications from a diverse group of people who can enrich our workforce with their personality.
A career at Pasxcel offers you the chance to make a positive difference in the world. Independently owned and independently minded, we attract a diverse mix of people to work on transforming the education industry as well as the lives of each and every member of our community (educators, team mates, parents and students).
We are truly global (with students from over 13 countries) and diverse (with educators who are ex-doctors, physicists, chartered accountants and vice-principals).
We strive to maintain our culture that is based on performance while providing the best care to our team mates.
We offer a competitive remuneration package commensurate with qualifications and experience to the right candidate including profit sharing scheme, health care (dental and optical care), flexible working hours and long-term career development opportunities.
We welcome applications from a diverse group of people who can enrich our workforce with their personality.
A career at Pasxcel offers you the chance to make a positive difference in the world. Independently owned and independently minded, we attract a diverse mix of people to work on transforming the education industry as well as the lives of each and every member of our community (educators, team mates, parents and students).
We are truly global (with students from over 13 countries) and diverse (with educators who are ex-doctors, physicists, chartered accountants and vice-principals).
We strive to maintain our culture that is based on performance while providing the best care to our team mates.
We offer a competitive remuneration package commensurate with qualifications and experience to the right candidate including profit sharing scheme, health care (dental and optical care), flexible working hours and long-term career development opportunities.
We welcome applications from a diverse group of people who can enrich our workforce with their personality.
We keep our classes small, a maximum of 10 in a class.
From a purely business point of view, it’s a poor decision. Time is finite and we should attempt to maximise it. But we don’t. To effectively educate our students, it becomes necessary that we don’t overstretch our attention. In a class of 20, neither teacher nor students are engaged in any meaningful discussion. There just isn’t enough time for productive discourse. Here’s that word again, time.
The key, it seems, is maximising it. But different people might have a different idea when they think of maximising time. Some would say to fit in as many as we can in a fixed period. We see it as dividing up a fair share to each of our students. It’s true I could feed 50 with a pot of Briyani so that everyone gets a taste of it. But surely it’s better to feed 10 from the same pot, but each ending up full. No one wants a sampler platter, everyone wants a full meal.
Beyond just making sure everyone in the class understands the lecture and engages in the discussion, a small class allows our teachers to know their students at a personal level. We can pick up on their habits, their abilities, their quirks. We notice when they seem down, we notice when they appear sad, and we notice when they have something on their mind.
In this way, we are able to tailor our approach. It’s like a bespoke suit. An off the rack suit would hardly fit anyone perfectly, but go to a tailor who measures you, and does multiple fittings, you’ll end up with the perfect suit. Our classes are bespoke for each individual student. So much so that they feel comfortable sharing with us their issues. They come for advice, they share new ideas, they ask questions they normally wouldn’t. Our students trust us, and we trust them. As a result, they believe us when we say they should do their work, that they should read that book, that we believe in them. They become motivated and they believe in themselves.
Of course, the benefits for our students are almost innumerable but the main thing is that they get the attention they deserve. They don’t see a barrier between them and their teachers. With being in an online class, they don’t feel overcrowded within a mass of bodiless heads. They don’t have to mute themselves because in a small class their background noises are not overwhelming.
From a purely business point of view, we seem to be losing revenue. From an education point of view, we’re gaining their trust and confidence. And that is a far more valuable return on our investment.
Written by Pasxcel’s Master Teacher, Mr Rasyad.
Practice makes perfect, right? Wrong.
Perfect practice makes practice perfect. But what is perfect practice?
Perfect practice is a practice that is most natural and the easiest process for you. For example, flying comes naturally to birds, hunting comes naturally to cheetahs and swimming comes naturally to fishes. They do not have to “sit and study” about it or memorize formulas on it. It just happens. Naturally.
Just like that, there are also things that we as human beings are naturally good at. Some of us are natural artists, some are naturally good with numbers and some are naturally good orators.
Similarly, each one of us has a natural way of learning. Some learn via listening to instruction (auditory), some learn via doing it themselves (kinesthetic) and some learn best via seeing (visual). Though each of us has a predominant natural way of learning, most of the time we use a combination of methods to learn.
The biggest misnomer about our education system is that because your child has a pair of eyes and ears just like your neighbours’ child, your child will learn exactly the same way as your neighbours. This is the farthest away from the truth.
Of course, for learning to take place effectively, students need to be engaged and in a positive state of mind. But that is where the similarity stops.
Each student learns differently and it is the responsibility of the educator to find out each child’s learning style in order to teach them correctly. And this is what we believe in and practice at our online igcse school.
For example, one of my students can’t learn without visual aid. He needs to “see” something on the board in order for him to be able to understand what I am teaching. I know this due to our Discovery Session and my close interactions with him in class. For someone like him, writing down notes is counterproductive, to say the least. No matter how many times he “sits down and studies”, he can’t seem to remember a thing. I once tried showing him the same exact notes in a mind map form and stopped screen sharing in less than 2 seconds. He could remember almost everything that he saw on screen.
See, the difference?
What if I forced him to study his notes and subsequently label him slow, lazy or stupid just because he can’t recall a bunch of formulas that were taught to him in the least effective way possible for him?
His confidence will be crushed. He will start believing my words and eventually accept that he is indeed a slow learner. And this is exactly what happens to most children in international schools.
Teachers are overworked and underpaid. The teachers have to moonlight to make extra income. Leaving your child with none of the extra attention that a teacher should give in order to spot their learning style.
At Pasxcel, we spot your child’s learning style early on, (some as early as the Discovery Session) and rigorously teach your child to play according to their strength to achieve the results of their dreams.
Written by Pasxcel’s Principal, Teacher Yuven.
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