Parallel Programs

Self Assessment

Self-assessment is a foundational skill: a modern strategy that develops self-awareness in students and gives them ownership of their own learning.

Teachers are trained to equip students with everything they need for that learning. It is also a life skill in its own right — one every person needs in order to grow, and to understand their own strengths and weaknesses.

Students begin practising self-assessment in kindergarten, initially led by the teacher. The teacher’s role decreases gradually as student participation grows, until by Grade 11 students are conducting independent self-assessments and writing their own development plans — plans calibrated to their abilities, performance, and potential.

Self Development

This program aims to develop the personal structure of students to promote, develop their personality, and support their weaknesses.
It is a program for training and refining life skills, such as research and social networking skills.

These programs are implemented in different ways within and outside the classroom and the curriculum. Among these methods is the training program on speaking in its different forms and facing the public (Audience).

We pass our culture on to one another.

Presentations

From the pre-primary to the third grade.

The program provides an opportunity for each student to train and practice many self-development skills by allowing him /her to present an individual presentation, in the presence of a large group of students including his/her peers, several teachers, and the administration, as well as the student’s mother and two extra-school guests chosen by the student in consultation with his /her parents.

Seminar

Seminar (free and open classroom) is a topic that is discussed by several students, so that several elements and parts of the selected subject matter, presented in the upper elementary stages, are presented in the following sequence:

  • A topic-defined loop presented by the teachers.
  • Several sessions during the semester (preparation and training) where the teacher supervises each group of students and follows their achievements.
  • Workshop.
  • Open Session (Gallery).

Internal Mentoring

Is a program designed to instil qualities such as cooperation and a willingness to help others. Older students from grades 4–6 mentor younger second-graders who need additional academic support, sharing what they have already learned

Benefits of this program::

  • Developing students’ leadership skills.
  • Self-confidence.
  • Personal growth and self-development.
  • Self-satisfaction.
  • Share individual experiences, information, and knowledge.

Workshops

The workshop is offered to a limited group of people to teach a specific skill within a specified time and objectives. Each group of participants will apply this skill to achieve the goal to reach an outcome that matches the expected success criteria of the workshop provider.

The idea behind the workshops is to introduce students, to train them more broadly in the methodology of education, training, and navigational methods in the chosen topic, and to give students the opportunity to experience and cope with the public in a different situation.

Theatrical Performance

The students of the schools offer a theater performance once a year, with the advanced planning of the subject in terms of the type of the novel, its suitability for the age stages it will offer, the development of educational and linguistic aspects, addressing important issues (educational, fictional, social, cultural and historical). After selecting the novel, developing the training plan, and identifying the staff of the teachers who will undertake the task will begin to allocate certain times within the school hours to intensify training on theatrical content under the supervision of the development department.

School Theater Objectives:

  • Develop and support students’ language.
  • Instilling educational, and cultural values in an indirect concept.
  • Train them to adapt different emotions, actions, and events to the novel.
  • Emerging creative aspects available to students.
  • Support and enhance self-confidence.
  • Training students on speech skills.
  • Train students to meet deadlines and texts.

Debates

Debating is a language-and-reasoning activity offered to upper-primary students. It is an effective vehicle for teaching analytical thinking and for learning to express ideas in a measured, socially appropriate way. It represents a step up in skill from the individual presentations practised in earlier years, building the confidence required to speak before a wider audience.

The corresponding students require the following tasks and skills:
Research, analysis, organization, collaboration, documentation, civility, rapid reaction, oral presentation, dialogue etiquette … and many more skills.

They are trained in school as well as home-based training, motivation, home support, and support for topics, arguments, and documents that support their point of view.