International School of Stuttgart Learning at ISS

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learning at ISS

At ISS we adopt a student-centred and holistic approach to learning and we employ whole-brain multiple-intelligence teaching methods. Our educational philosophies are underpinned by current research into the way people learn and into the capacities of the brain to process information. We believe that learning is a lifelong process, that all students can learn, that school should be an enjoyable environment in which to learn, that children possess a range of intelligences, not only the traditionally academic one, and that teaching styles must recognise that children learn in different ways and employ different aspects of their intelligences.

We aim to educate the whole child, supporting and encouraging growth across the spectrum of intellectual, personal, physical, social and emotional development. We encourage experiential learning in children: experiencing a phenomenon and then establishing its place in the lexicon of learning, rather than the other way around. By adopting these approaches, we find that students learn better, retain more, are more content with what they do, can attain independence and maturity more readily and, importantly, can achieve recognised benchmarks of academic success in the traditional measures of examination results.