- Engineering and built environment
- Computing and digital technology
- Training and education
- Business and management
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Coordinator: Rami Ghoussainy and Vania Kanj |
English language arts, K–12, focuses on the process of developing and nurturing the required skills to create a generation of independent learners and global thinkers. During their productive journey students will be challenged to aspire and inspire, to become the agents of change their nation envisions.
Students will have a be studying the American curriculum, the California Common Core Standards, which is designed to provide systematic, sequential instruction to promote high levels of English language proficiency in the domains of speaking, listening, reading, and writing, and to broaden the development of both academic language skills and social communication to produce a well-rounded student who is ready to meet the demands of his age.
The curriculum has been designed to:
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Grades 4-12 English Course description:
| STD -I | Language for Information and Understanding: Students will listen, speak, read, and write for information and understanding. As listeners and readers, students will collect data, facts, and ideas; discover relationships, concepts, and generalizations; and use knowledge generated from oral, written, and electronically produced texts. As speakers and writers, they will use oral and written language that follows the accepted conventions of the English language to acquire, interpret, apply, and transmit information. |
| STD -II | Language for Literary Response and Expression: Students will read and listen to oral, written, and electronically produced texts and performances from selections of the American and World literature; relate texts and performances to their own lives, and develop an understanding of the diverse social, historical, and cultural dimensions the texts and performances represent. As speakers and writers, students will use oral and written language that follows the accepted conventions of the English language for self-expression and artistic creation. |
| STD -III | Language for Critical Analysis and Evaluation: Students will listen, speak, read, and write for critical analysis and evaluation. As listeners and readers, students will analyze experiences, ideas, information, and issues presented by others using a variety of established criteria. As speakers and writers, they will use oral and written language that adhere to the accepted conventions of the English language to present from a variety of perspectives their opinions and judgments on experiences, ideas, information and issues. |
| STD -IV | Language for Social Interaction: Students will listen, speak, read, and write for social interaction. Students will use oral and written language that follows the accepted conventions of the English language for effective social communication with a wide variety of people. As readers and listeners, they will use the social communications of others to enrich their understanding of people and their views. |
Curriculum Topics Major Literary Genres Short Stories:
| 1. Define the elements of a short story. For example point of view, theme, plot, characterization a. Recognize the effects the literary elements have on the development of a story b. Create short stories |
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2. Novels: a. Recognize how the lives of individual authors are reflected in the literature b. Discuss various literary elements including plot development and characterization c. Interpret themes and appraise how the literature affects student understanding of the world in which they live d. Compare literary works Dramatic Plays e. Theatrical Elements: To explain the importance of theatrical elements |
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3. Poetry: Students will delve into the magic realm of poetry as they analyze, evaluate and synthesis the intricacies and complexities of poetry. |
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4. Vocabulary Skills: Students will unpack the meaning of words by identifying the meaning through the context clues, the roots of the word and their origin. |
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5. Writing: Through the study of writing, students are able to express their inner most thoughts, feelings, and creative ideas to the world. The students will dabble their pens with the different types of writing styles (The analytical, reflective, argumentative…). |
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6. Grammar Skills: Students will master the conventions of the English language to develop their own writing style. |
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7. Public Speaking: From among the various types of speech, (debate, informative, persuasive) students will review basic public speaking skills and apply their knowledge to the actual preparation and presentation in a public speaking forum. |
Reading and Writing:
Al Ittihad National Private School in Al Ain recognizes reading and writing as a challenge due to the increase use of social media and technology. Thus, a set of aims are outlined below to emphasize the importance of reading and writing in both English and Arabic languages.
- Encourage students to read English and Arabic via available online resources.
- Enhance students’ skills and strategies to enable them to independently construct and gain gest from all informational tests.
- Challenge students to read critically and analyze literary terms.
- Promote all types of reading and writing and for a variety of purposes and audiences.
- Give opportunities for students to enable them to present their work accurately and to communicate effectively.
- Promote knowledge about words, concepts, and text structure to construct meaning from texts.
- Plan, draft, edit, revise, and publish their works to share their ideas.
- Fluent readers and writers will be challenged by complex and Lexile based texts.
- Students will be drilled on a wide range of strategies to comprehend, interpret, evaluate, and appreciate texts.
- Develop research skills on issues and interests by generating ideas and questions, and by posing problems.
- Direct students to gather, evaluate, and synthesize data from a variety of sources to
| Coordinator: Mr. Modar Ahmad El Hazar |
Mathematics is a broad subject, seemingly abstract yet very tangible. It isn’t just the study of numbers, variables, and graphs. Math covers all topics you could imagine, ranging from arts as seen in Leonardo Da Vinci’s work, generating proper marketing schemes and building economic structures for governments, engineering practices such as finding equations of motion for a variety of substances, all the way to the birth of humans and even their imagination. At INPSAA, we cultivate our students’ imaginations and bring math to life.
Our teachers are well trained facilitators of learning who excel in delivering and unpacking standards with their students to ensure mastery. Since we follow the Californian Common Core State Standards, we help our students become experts in a variety of Mathematical Practices that every mathematically proficient student should utilize.
Our learners will also be equipped with 21st century skills that’ll enable them to overcome any obstacles they face. Our students will be fostering a collaborative mentality when it comes to problem solving and finding solutions using mathematics to face them. With the guidance of their teachers, students will be fostering proper communication skills to convey their creativity in solving problems and representing data in its many various forms using critical thinking.
Thus, our mission, as the math department, is to raise a generation of critical thinkers who enjoy learning new ways of thinking and solving problems. Our vision is seeing this generation using their technological and computational literacies to compete with the world in being the mathematically proficient students they can be.
| Coordinator: Mr. Shady Fathy Hamed Mohamed Elkassas |
INPSAA, has built its vision and mission upon two pillars; Global citizenship and Heritage guardianship. Those pillars are not only reflected on our pedagogical strategies, but also have a strong impact on our daily practices with our students, colleagues, and team members. For this reason, it is very important to communicate our expectations and procedures in INPSAA. This booklet is intended to be a brief overview of the procedures and expectations.
INPSAA Science Department Vision
INPSAA Science Department Vision Our vision is to become a nationally recognized model for providing a unique quality education that is applying research-based pedagogical strategies. We aim to provide the community with global thinkers and problem solvers who are able to compete in and contribute to both the national and international dynamic and technology-centered society. INPSAA Science Department Mission
The mission of INSPAA Science Department
is to advance the study of sciences by providing students with high-quality pedagogy and classroom practices. Furthermore, we aim to provide students with limitless opportunities to participate in project, inquiry, and problem-based learning contexts. Setting high standards for excellence in all areas, the department will produce students who are capable of applying 21st-century skills (4Cs) in real-life contexts. In support of our mission, the Science Department faculty members strive to:
- Apply STEAM-based learning that focuses on resolving real-life challenges.
- Implement 3D instructions by applying NGSS –Next Generation Science Standards-throughout the curricular plans.
- Nurture the value of cross-disciplinary thinking by providing students with educational, project, and research opportunities between scientific fields of study.
- Encourage teachers to collaborate with other departments throughout the meaningful and productive professional learning community. • Develop teachers’ knowledge, skills, and attitudes by providing them with Continues professional development programs that aim to advance the quality of their instructions.
- Foster multi-disciplinary curriculum development to provide students with a breadth of course options in Physics, Chemistry, and Biology, and other fields of science.
- Empower community engagement by providing students with service-learning and community-based research opportunities.
INPSAA Pedagogical Strategies Our science teachers are a group of professional and passionate educators. Being a passionate science teacher requires designing innovative and collaborative teaching strategies that would promote students’ creativity, collaboration, critical thinking, and communication. For that reason, our teachers are applying unique teaching and learning strategies such as;
- Engaging students in meaningful and rigorous learning experiences where they can apply 21st century skills such as critical thinking, collaboration, communication, and creativity.
- Promoting collaborative learning throughout carefully planned learning activities where students can work together to solve problems, complete tasks, learn new concepts, and discuss new ideas.
- Planning and Implementing NGSS Aligned Instructions by applying the three-dimensional instructions which is the notion that students should develop proficiency in science content knowledge, along with aptitude in the practices used by real scientists and engineers, and a broader understanding of the concepts that span multiple scientific endeavors.
- Encouraging students to apply their knowledge and skills in an innovative interdisciplinary approach by applying STEAM learning; an educational pedagogy that combines science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics.
- Engaging students in Project-Based Learning which is a dynamic classroom approach in which students actively explore real-world problems and challenges and acquire a deeper knowledge.
The Next Generation Science Standards
The Next Generation Science Standards is a multi-state effort in the United States to create new education standards that are “rich in content and practice, arranged in a coherent manner across disciplines and grades to provide all students an internationally benchmarked science education. Within the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), there are three distinct and equally important dimensions to learning science; Science and Engineering Practices SEPs, Crosscutting Concepts CCCs, and Disciplinary Core Ideas DCIs. These dimensions are combined to form each standard—or performance expectation PEs—and each dimension works with the other two to help students build a cohesive understanding of science over time.
Science and Engineering Practices (SEPs): describe what scientists do to investigate the natural world and what engineers do to design and build systems. The practices better explain and extend what is meant by “inquiry” in science and the range of cognitive, social, and physical practices that it requires. Students engage in practices to build, deepen, and apply their knowledge of core ideas and crosscutting concepts.
Crosscutting Concepts (CCCs): help students explore connections across the four domains of science, including Physical Science, Life Science, Earth and Space Science, and Engineering Design. When these concepts, such as “cause and effect”, are made explicit for students, they can help students develop a coherent and scientifically-based view of the world around them.
Disciplinary Core Ideas (DCIs): are the key ideas in science that have broad importance within or across multiple sciences or engineering disciplines. These core ideas build on each other as students progress through grade levels and are grouped into the following four domains: Physical Science, Life Science, Earth and Space Science, and Engineering.
Our students are tomorrow’s innovators.
| Coordinators: Mr. Mohamed Ben Hmida |
The Arabic Language Curriculum described in this section is designed to help students learn to communicate effectively in the mother-tongue language. Major emphasis is placed on developing students’ ability to comprehend what they hear and read and to express their thoughts orally and in writing. In addition to developing their communication skills, students will develop awareness of and appreciation for their own culture and other cultures.
The Arabic language instructional program is aligned with the Abu Dhabi Education Council and is designed to help students:
- Understand an educated native speaker conversing about topics of general interest and speaking in such media as news broadcasts, plays, movies, and telecasts.
- Speak fluently and comprehensibly on a range of topics.
- Understand directly, without translating, the content of nontechnical writing, selected works of literature, and articles of general interest from periodicals.
- Write comprehensibly for formal and informal purposes.
- Develop awareness of the cultures of people speaking the world language.
