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Education Philosophy

With its academic, social, and cultural programs, Hisar School aims to educate our students as world citizens who are creative, self-confident, and have solid scientific, social, and intellectual backgrounds with critical thinking skills and leadership qualities, by providing them with the skills required by the age we live in.

HIGH QUALITY EDUCATION AT HISAR SCHOOL

Hisar School designs and conducts all components of a high-standard teaching and education system within the framework of the following principles, with the aim of helping its students continue their development as citizens of the world.

Deep Learning and Constructivist Approach
  • Deep learning and constructivist approach aims at improving students’ skills of understanding, interpreting and connecting the complex elements of a topic. This approach is integrated with the constructivist philosophy, enabling students to form the basis for constructing their own understanding of the world by actively interacting with society, ideas and events.
  • Students are encouraged to take an active and participatory role in their learning journey.
  • It is ensured that students are aware of what they know, and what they will learn and how they can learn them. By supporting their self-awareness, we give them opportunities to create new goals.
  • Learning opportunities are provided for learners to ask questions, solve problems and express their ideas based on their curiosity. Through these learning opportunities, critical thinking skills are promoted in the knowledge-building process while developing the skills of analysis, synthesis, interpretation, evaluation and reflection.

A. Enriched Curriculum

  • Hisar School employs a flexible and dynamic curriculum that takes changing and evolving global and individual needs into consideration.
  • We focus on the holistic development of our students and offer them learning experiences according to their level of development.
  • We prioritize the socioemotional learning skills of our students.
  • We have a curriculum where students learn about their own and others’ rights and responsibilities. We employ policies that observe children’s rights across all applications. Therefore, we help children to feel emotionally and physically safe.
  • We encourage students to take responsibility for learning by having an intrinsic motivation to learn.
  • We differentiate the content according to the readiness, interests, skills and developmental needs of students.
  • We create learning experiences where students interact individually, in small groups and in wider settings.
  • We aim for content that allows students to recognize local and national problems, take responsibility and contribute to solutions.
  • We incorporate cultural diversity into the curriculum, and we adopt an approach that encourages learners to respect cultural diversity.

B. Formative Assessment and Transformative/ Convergent Feedback

  • At Hisar School, formative assessment and transformative feedback is the key to the academic achievement and development of students.
  • With this key element, we aim to identify the difficulties and deficiencies experienced in the learning journey, to plan the necessary support and improvement, and to make the teaching process more effective.
  • We design assessment strategies to promote students’ self-assessment and learning from active feedback in a way that supports their individual development.
  • During their education journey at Hisar School, we monitor the holistic development of students in a data-based manner, and we provide fast and constructive feedback to support academic studies.

C. Teacher as a Learner

  • The teacher is a continuous learner by utilizing professional development opportunities and professional studies and best practices, current theories and approaches in education, national and international teaching methods, institutional and self-assessment tools.
  • In professional learning studies, the principle of participation, relevance, and revealing the potential of the teacher and the student are essential.
  • It is important that Hisar Schools stakeholders are lifelong learners.
  • We make sure learning is continuous through local and international trainings to promote professional development.
  • Hisar School advocates the importance of free and flexible learning environments to maximize the academic success of its students.
  • We design learning environments to ensure that all students are included in the learning process by considering their socioemotional, cognitive and physical readiness and developmental needs. 
  • We create an environment where students can express their ideas, work actively, and support peer learning and communication.
  • Physical spaces are designed as learning and idea workshops in line with students’ personal interests, well-being, abilities, and goals.
  • Curriculum and course methods involve students’ participatory learning strategies through free thinking and self-expression.
  • Hisar School offers a learning experience and environment that is not dependent on time and place to reveal the academic potential of the students.  
  • Research culture is one of the basic elements of academic goals.
  • Research culture is integrated with the principles of academic integrity, encompassing teaching practices and all stakeholders.
  • Students are educated to respect their own and others’ knowledge and skills, knowing and practicing the importance of honesty in accurately presenting what they have learned.
  • Research culture is built on the principle of providing and developing scientific literacy with the support of teaching strategies, extracurricular activities and practices, and independent research centers within the school.
  • We create environments where creativity and innovation skills are promoted.
  • Idea and production workshops and activities provide students with a learning environment in which they can apply what they have learned and implement solutions for individual and social progress.
  • This would help to open the space for various ways of thinking and action, while promoting students to realize themselves.
  • In order to ensure permanent and effective learning of students, we integrate educational technologies into learning processes with the support of research and strategy development units structured at school in accordance with instructional design principles and international technology integration standards.
  • Learning is accessible. Opportunities are offered independent of time and place. Students are encouraged to learn at their own pace.
  • We comprehensively and responsibly integrate technology into the curriculum, with effective methods to liberate learning and enable both individual and collaborative learning.
  • We aim to empower technology literacy to help raise students as digital citizens.
  • We support our students to reach accurate and reliable information in their studies, while encouraging their sense of curiosity and willingness to learn.