Welcome to Dewey
THE BEGINNING
Dewey International School of Applied Sciences was created in 2005 in a small house that hosted 21 pupils. In September 2014 she moved to her own site, a quiet environment with more space, conducive for learning. Since then, the infrastructure of this new site has steadily experienced improvement which has led to an encouraging increase in student numbers (200).
OUR PREMISES
Our infrastructure contains modern classrooms from kindergarten to high school, an equipped science laboratory, an up-to-date computer laboratory, a library with books of different works of life for students from kindergarten to high school, a football pitch, a multipurpose sports court (basketball, volleyball, and badminton), a playground for primary and kindergarten and a canteen. We accept a maximum of 16 students per class which gives a teacher-student ratio of 1:5.
OUR TEACHERS
Our teachers impact students with independent learning skills by promoting a participatory approach to learning, practicing project-based learning, prompting students to think out of the box and develop metacognitive skills, encouraging student-centered learning and active learning approach while constantly practicing differentiation.
Through a persistent focus on staff development, we upgrade skills that continually improve our teaching which we can see through our students’ achievements. As a British council partner school, our staff has access to short professional development courses. Being a Cambridge professional development center, our teachers undergo the Cambridge International Diploma for Teaching and Learning (CIDTL).
HOME SCHOOL RELATIONSHIP
We promote a tripartite relationship (school-parent-student). At the beginning of the school year, the school, parents, and students define the responsibility that each of them has to play and come up with objectives and goals to be achieved by the end of the school year. Parent-teacher conferences are held every trimester to ensure that all the stakeholders are playing their part to guarantee the success of the learners.
Principal’s profile
Jacqueline Dioh Eko is the principal and founder of the Dewey International School of Applied Sciences and the Faith DISAS International College. With more than 25 years of experience as an educator, (a science teacher to be specific) Jackie has taught in schools in the UK, US, South Africa and Cameroon. After teaching at the American school of Douala for 7 years, she got a vision to start a school with similar standards yet affordable to Cameroonians. DEWEY was created in 2005 and became the pioneer Cambridge school in Douala.
With a Bachelor’s degree in Science and a Master’s degree in Education from the University of Minnesota and the College of New Jersey, she has had a world of experiences that enable her maintain standards, innovate and model excellent education. Dewey has become the role model school that has caused an explosion of Cambridge schools in Douala.
Jackie is a wife and a mother who like many professional women, has managed a career while maintaining a stable home. She is a mother of two yet she considers herself mother to the hundreds of children she has educated.. She is passionate about education and children as well as cooking. She has given opportunities to many orphans to get a good education as well as orientation for a brighter future. She proudly flaunts all the children who have passed through her and are now professionals, leaders and even parents, as her children.
In her own words, being a teacher is the best profession in the world. The joy you get from the progress you see in each child, and the opportunity to be a destiny helper for these young people, helping to create their future is a privilege.
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