High school

High School Academics

High school overview

Our curriculum is developed through collaborative planning and is based on the Common Core State Standards in addition to NGSS and California Art State Standards and the Ministry of Education (Egypt) curricula. the school has a longtime curriculum review, development and implementation cycle. Curriculum maps are developed with corresponding unit plans. Alignment is found within the maps, unit plans, lesson plans as well as the assessments. Staff track progress and alter planning as demonstrated by student need.

Time is provided for grade meetings similarly as subject specific meetings with coordinators. Rigor is valued as evident within the common usage of Bloom’s Taxonomy of Learning Needs in each division. Topics and instructional strategies strive for max student engagement within the learning process. Project based learning additionally as cooperative learning permit individual students to analyze comprehensive related and relevant topics of interest. Our goal is to arrange our students for entry into highly competitive universities in Egypt and abroad. Inquiry, critical thinking and problem solving approaches to curriculum delivery are utilized in our classrooms.

Our program of studies

All students are expected to hold a full program of studies. The courses in High School are English, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies, Foreign Language, Arabic, Computer, Physical Education, Religion, Arabic Social Studies, Art and Music. 

 

Academic

Own Heliopolis American Division

Academic

At Own Heliopolis American School, we work hard to provide our children with a rigorous and varied education that is both American and international college preparatory. We work to enable our students to develop into critical, independent thinkers with the ability to participate dynamically and productively in an ever-changing global society. This is done with the help of a compassionate, competent, and specialized staff of teachers and others. Own Heliopolis American school believes that school curricula should include learning experiences that develop the child as a whole, and that every student should participate actively and responsibly in their own learning We have created a curriculum for our elementary school, middle school, and high school that provides opportunity for our kids to embrace learning and achieve academic success in order to assure high levels of excellence. An integrated core curriculum is used to apply information in the real world, and it is supplemented by electives like music and art. We give interdisciplinary units of instruction a main priority.

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