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2024 Methodology

Methodology

The school’s methodology is the compass that sets the direction and the means by which we reach our goals. It is reviewed in a regular cycle: once one set of standards has been met, the next is set, in line with the demands of the next period.

The school’s methodology is reviewed and revised every four years according to the following:

  • The Kingdom’s Vision for Education
  • School vision and mission
  • School General Objectives
  • Student performance data analysis results
  • Academic team performance data analysis results
  • The school’s Decisions and directions for the next stage
  • The requirements of emerging educational theories
  • Labor market requirements and industrial revolution
  • The state of the school’s knowledge and skills (accumulated experiences)
  • School capabilities (physical, human, cognitive..)
  • Country trends

COMPETENCY-BASED METHODOLOGY

The concept of competency implies more than just the acquisition of knowledge and skills; it involves the mobilization of knowledge, skills, attitudes, and values to meet the complex demands of situations of uncertainty. Situations where insight is required to use knowledge, skills, and values in daily practical life.

Values and Attitude

  • Cultivating responsibility — to oneself, one’s peers, one’s community, one’s country, and the wider world.
  • Developing global citizenship: familiarity with global issues and the universal values of justice, equality, dignity, and respect.
  • Building the capacity to connect and collaborate with people of different backgrounds, cultures, and perspectives.
  • Equipping students to work collaboratively and responsibly on global challenges, and to act for the collective good.
  • Navigating modernity — change, diversity, ambiguity, and uncertainty — in a way that remains anchored in Islamic values.

Knowledge

Future-ready students will need both broad and specialised knowledge across every subject.
Dar Al Fikr has identified two standards under the domain of knowledge for both teachers and students, in addition to the previous knowledge standards for the pursuit of teaching and learning:

  • Disciplinary Integration
    • Deepening into knowledge
    • Transferring LearningDisciplinary Integration
  • Real-Life Connection

Skills

Knowledge alone is not enough; students also need to know how to apply it.
Doing and knowing are complementary. The skill area is divided into two parts:

  • Hard Skills Inclusion
    • Digital Skills, Financial Literacy, Language Skills
  • Transferable Skills Inclusion
    • Communication skills, Team Work, Problem Solving, Creativity and Innovation, Time Management

Overall Outcome of Competency Methodology

One of the outcomes of the school’s vision and mission through teaching and learning plus Competency standards is:

  • A student with awareness and self-development who based his attitude on values and virtuous faculties.
  • A cognitively developed student who has the ability to transfer learning across different environments and fields, linking knowledge, inventing tools and solutions in his interest and his community.
  • Students improve their performance and life skills outside the school with the knowledge, hard and soft skills that they acquire at school and this enables them to adapt and succeed in many situations, environments, and fields.

Reference:
https://www.oecd.org/education/2030