Meriam Jelliti
Doha
ACS International School Doha has announced a new 5-year Education Strategy that will help provide a world-class education to prepare young students in succeeding in a complex world filled with both challenges and opportunities.
The announcement was made at a media briefing addressed by ACS Education Strategy Director Dr Robert Harrison, Head of School Robert Cody and Deputy Head of School Caroline Rennie, at ACS Doha on Tuesday.
"The strategy is designed to help students succeed, not only to be job takers but also job makers in the future,” said Robert Harrison.
"The story of education is complicated and international schools are constantly challenged to maintain values of sustainable development, rule of law, individual liberty and respect. In a highly-interconnected world, where the future is uncertain, ACS’s education strategy aims to empower a new kind of globally-minded and culturally-astute citizen, able to navigate difference, appreciate diversity and balance traditional identities with the demands of modern life,” he added.
Setting a new foundation for readiness, ACS is focusing on core social and emotional skills while discovering individual and social awareness and allowing self-discovery.
According to him, the ideas represented a readiness to travel, succeed, solve problems, invent and be a global citizen, by identifying the key issues and skills, which leads to a clear implemented evaluation for students.
"We are committed to helping people get ready not only through traditional qualifications, but by building the workplace and the skills needed to be a successful citizen or a resident,” said Harrison.
"Teaching is ever changing, complex and essential. At ACS, we recognise our globalised world is always evolving and tailor our students’ experience to make them ready for tomorrow, today. Through some of the initiatives Dr Harrison mentions, through to the delivery of the first US College Board Advanced Placement programmes in an authentically international context, we strive to develop civic engagement and community service that allows our students to become effective agents of change,” said Cody.
By August 2020, ACS will move to a new campus with unique and different design to inspire exploration, innovation and collaboration for more than 900 students of 70 nationalities. Like ACS’s three UK campuses near London, the new school in Doha will embody the group’s longstanding values and its consistent educational vision and constantly renewing global education standards.
Doha
ACS International School Doha has announced a new 5-year Education Strategy that will help provide a world-class education to prepare young students in succeeding in a complex world filled with both challenges and opportunities.
The announcement was made at a media briefing addressed by ACS Education Strategy Director Dr Robert Harrison, Head of School Robert Cody and Deputy Head of School Caroline Rennie, at ACS Doha on Tuesday.
"The strategy is designed to help students succeed, not only to be job takers but also job makers in the future,” said Robert Harrison.
"The story of education is complicated and international schools are constantly challenged to maintain values of sustainable development, rule of law, individual liberty and respect. In a highly-interconnected world, where the future is uncertain, ACS’s education strategy aims to empower a new kind of globally-minded and culturally-astute citizen, able to navigate difference, appreciate diversity and balance traditional identities with the demands of modern life,” he added.
Setting a new foundation for readiness, ACS is focusing on core social and emotional skills while discovering individual and social awareness and allowing self-discovery.
According to him, the ideas represented a readiness to travel, succeed, solve problems, invent and be a global citizen, by identifying the key issues and skills, which leads to a clear implemented evaluation for students.
"We are committed to helping people get ready not only through traditional qualifications, but by building the workplace and the skills needed to be a successful citizen or a resident,” said Harrison.
"Teaching is ever changing, complex and essential. At ACS, we recognise our globalised world is always evolving and tailor our students’ experience to make them ready for tomorrow, today. Through some of the initiatives Dr Harrison mentions, through to the delivery of the first US College Board Advanced Placement programmes in an authentically international context, we strive to develop civic engagement and community service that allows our students to become effective agents of change,” said Cody.
By August 2020, ACS will move to a new campus with unique and different design to inspire exploration, innovation and collaboration for more than 900 students of 70 nationalities. Like ACS’s three UK campuses near London, the new school in Doha will embody the group’s longstanding values and its consistent educational vision and constantly renewing global education standards.