Mission Statement
The mission of the North Jakarta International School is to provide its students with the opportunities, resources, instruction, and environment to pursue academic and personal excellence through an international school curriculum with a U.S. orientation, and to help them form the basis from which to become life-long learners and productive, involved citizens in a changing, global society.
Philosophy
Schooling should be a multifaceted experience which allow students to learn to think creatively and critically, to gain practical skills which will equip them for ensuing stages of education and life general, to explore areas of interest, including their own selves, and to learn to work with and to appreciate other people. We recognize that in addition to preparing students for each successive stage of their education, schooling forms a significant chronological segment of a person’s life and, therefore, has its own intrinsic value and importance, a value beyond simply preparing for the next chapter or the next grade level. This lends an added significance and responsibility to all the work we outline below.
Our aim in every classroom is to create a dynamic and interactive learning environment with challenges and expectations appropriate to the complex world of students will inhabit. We focus on the development of each student’s skills, sense of logic, and general academic and social discipline. Most importantly, we aim to foster a lasting love of learning, which will extend outside the school curriculum, and beyond the student’s year at NJIS.
Our students are inheriting a rapidly changing world in which the discovery, assimilation, understanding, and management of new information will be vital to them. Our goal, academics skills and intellectual confidence to apply knowledge to new problems and situations.
In doing so, we seek to take advantage of the many learning opportunities unique to the international school setting and, specifically, to our location in Indonesia. Students with an understanding and appreciation of the diversity of nationalities and cultures are better prepared to tackle the challenges an increasingly interdependent world presents.