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TED ANKARA COLLEGE FOUNDATION PRIVATE HIGH SCHOOL
Turkish Literature
9and 10 grades
" Improving the abilities of doing research, disscussing, understanding, evaluating and interpreting.
" Improving taste of arts and understanding of arts
" Showing the relationship between literature and other research areas and branches of sciences,
" Showing that Turkish cultural life, Turkish history and Turkish literature are combined with each other by literary pieces.
" Showing that the literary pieces improve and gain richness by time.
" Making them understand evaluate and interpret the written and oral pieces they meet.
" Finding the elements of natural culture and global culture, the elements of thought and taste and seeing a relationship between them in all kinds of texts and especially in the literary ones.11 th grade Turkish Literature
We can summarize the general aims of 11th grade Turkish literature (literature, grammer and writing) as follows:
1. Teaching one of the most important and basic elements of national unity, by reaching some special works of literature without changing their properties.
2. Showing the importance of language with fixed values.
3. Teaching the students the things they listen to or read in details, improving their ability to reflect what they hear, see, think and understand by means of writing, speaking in a planned effective and clear way.
4. Teaching the need of reading, imposing the taste of reading and giving it as a habit.
5. Teaching that Turkish is a member of a language family which is rich, productive and has produced detailed works from different styles in history, and showing that there are still well-known works in the Turkish literature worldwide.
6. Teaching the importance of paying attention to spelling pronounciation and aesthetics of Turkish while writing and speaking.
7. Teaching norms and general values of Turkish society by the help of literary works.
8. Preparing students to understand the importance and place of Turkish literature among other national literatures.
9. Helping students have powerful, free and systematic thinking as a habit by teaching them Turkish and literature and also giving them power to search, discuss, evaluate, criticise and synthesize.
10. Giving them the habit of learning, using their knowledge, gaining new knowledge, analyzing and synthesizing through the activities of reading, writing and listening that are appropriate to their grade and age.
11. Showing the students the collections of our cultures, beliefs, knowledge and taste during the activities of analyzing oral or written texts and producing new texts.
English
As TED Ankara College Foundation Schools, with the awareness and responsibility of being the first private Turkish school whose education is in English, we are aiming to give our students the ability of speaking and writing in English, using English in national and international areas and expressing themselves in the best way in a foreign language. We can break down the aims of English education into three groups.
Short Term Aims
" Bringing up students who like reading a text that is written in English, discuss it and comment on it.
" Bringing up individuals who can communicate in a foreign language in the country or in foreign countries in daily life.
" Bringing up individuals that know using English in academic level.Long Term Aims:
" Preparing the language class students for Foreign Language Exam (YDS)
" Preparing all students for English proficiency exam in university.
" Making them use the library effectively.
" Making them think critically.
" Bringing up students who can use time efficiently.
" Bringing up students who are able to solve problems.Department Aims
" Besides literary works and grammar providing the students with a non-artificial area by giving learning environment and worksheets and also using authentic texts.
" Making the school and the students bilingual
" Bringing up students who are open-minded, tolerant and diverse
" Having the efficient use of non-class activities during teaching and learning.
German
Aims:
The students who have chosen German as a second foreign language in the Primary School come to High School with basic ability of speaking in German, Grundstuge A1.
In High School the aim of German to be taught, starting from preparation classes in the 9th, 10th and 11th grades and UB classes, is giving the students the opportunity of improving their knowledge and knowing the second foreign language in Grundstufe A2 level.
The start Deutsch 2 Level Exam that is done by German Culture Association is taken by the students who want to enter the exam with reflecting A2 level.
French
Aims: Communication is the basis of French education in our school. Thus, the main aim of learning a language is using that language as a communication tool, rather than providing oral and written communication and grammer rules.
In our education program we recognize the scale of Language Improvement File of Education Commitee of European Community about language teaching. In this program, besides basic four components of language teaching, recognising, understanding, criticizing, ordering, classing, summarizing, relating, matching etc. and ability to use language is also taken into account with this programme, we are aiming our national programme students to communicate.
Aims
For our students to grow as an effective, productive and creative individuals and to have a right to say during the progress period of our country and to be prepared for the future with full knowledge maths has a different and very important place. Our main targets in maths are to:
- Use maths to solve problems in daily life and to have a happy and high-qualified life by learning how to use some skills.
- Understand the mathematical terms and find the links between them and use them in different areas of knowledge and follow the higher level in maths.
- Express their own ideas and do reasoning while solving maths problems.
- Use mathematical language and terminologies for expressing and sharing their ideas.
- Improve their problems solving strategies, make them use these while solving the problems in daily life and make them gain self-confidence.
Computer
This lesson aims at making our students use the programs; MS Word which is being taken for computer. Reading-writing, MS Excel for electronic table, MS Powerpoint for presentation and besides these MS Frontpage for web designing and Adobe Photoshop for gaining basic picture designing knowledge and use them in their lessons properly.
Physics
Physics ib a quantitative science which deals with basic principles of the universe, secrets of it, structure of matter and the relationship between all these.
Physics Science, while trying to explain all these events in the world benefit from some scientific methods like observations, doing measurements, establishing relationships between events and proving them by experiments.
Our target as the physics department is to make our students interested in the physical events happening around them and make them observe. The next step is to make them gain the ability to analyse their observations by using scientific methods.
Chemistry
Targets
Chemistry is the center of our life. Everything is made up of chemical matters and most of the things we do include chemical reactions occur while cooking, taking the foods who have nutritive value. Although most of the environmental problems are chemical originated, it is interesting that most of the ways that control and fix these problems are also chemically qualified, so chemistry concerns everybody.As TED Ankara College Foundation High School Chemistry Department, our main target is to bring up individuals who love his/her land, can have a right to claim something during the development of our country, become, intellectual, creative and productive.
Biology
Targets
Our main targets in biology for our students are to;
- Gain the habit of finding scientifically approached solutions to the problems they face and gain the awareness of healthy life.
- Make them have the basic knowledge and ability about biology.
- Make them live peacefully with the other organisms in their habitats without hurting them.
- Make them search and learn about everything.
- Make them have self-confidence despite all difficult conditions.
- Make them survive in the society by combining knowledge and ability with productivity.
- Make them use the basic knowledge in their daily life and to make them transfer these knowledge to new conditions.
GeographyTargets: The aim of geography lesson is to make students have the ability of searching, using presentation techniques, finding relationships between life and basic elements of the world, especially the change in the context of human-nature relationship.
History
Targets: The aim of history lesson is to educate individuals with the idea of "the generations who know their past can lead the future" as Great Leader Atatürk had said, who both know his/her national (history and world history, who can interpret it properly). Our objectives are:
" To evoke an emotion of consortium which is coming from their communication with previous generations and the present one.
" To make students know world better and to have a change in order to play a responsible role in the society by making them gain new knowledge and
" To make them gain time sense, to get them to comprehend short term penetration of time in which the events and the peope are important, average term penetration of time in which the social and economic changes occur and long-term penetration of time which is about the formation of civilizations.
" To get them comprehend how national identity occured by determining the place of national history within the relationship network of big civilizations.
" To make them understand the national identity can only keep on by protecting it, change and becoming modern are not changing the character, but the idea which Atatürk put forward "Reaching the level of contemporary civilization and pass it can only become real within this penetration.
Philosophy Group
Philosophy
Besides philosophy topics and their importance, aim of philosophy lesson is to determine that human is a politic, ethic, esthetic and religious existence, show them that they can solve problems by using points of views from different areas by giving them examples from philosophy and make them tolerant.
Psycology
The main aims of our lesson is to inform students about motivation, excitement, psycological health, intelligence and personality. By doing this, students can be aware of the importance of the reasons of their behaviour. In addition to this, research techniques and the concepts of development in terms of people, their surroundings and other organisms are also emphasized while teaching the subject.
Sociology
The main aims of our lesson is to enable students understand the structure and change in social groups and institutions, the reasons for the change in social structure. As a result of this, students can gain social concious by being informed about different points of views related to different concepts in sociology.
Logic
Our aim is to inform students about the logical thinking, the content of the logic during the first age. We also aim to give the main concepts of the Aristoteles logic and dealing with new approaches as symbolic logic develops. As a result of this, students can gain a vision, in which the providing concept in logic is always in accordance with the thinking system and justification of the events.
Knowledge and Human
In this subject we aim to enable students to know themselves conciously, physically and spritually while equipping them with abilities of the critical thinking, behaving uniquely and freely, using the mother-tongue correctly, being aware of the concepts which constitute groups and the interactions in those groups, taking responsibility, being tolerant and lastly using all these properties in order to solve the problems in the society. In our lesson, we also emphasize the importance of globalisation, preserving cultural identities and we enable them to apply all these values in their lives.
Human Relations
The aim of our subject is to make students know the social structures and rules of the society, to gain new approach in the group as a member of this group, having an effective communication and be adapted in the society and contributed highly.
Music
Aims:
" To improve critical thinking about Turkish and world music.
" To enable students to obey the rules while practising music
" To understand the structures of Turkish and world music in order to classify them
" To determine the motif, age, meaning of the music in tone, harmony and rhytm.
" To use different musical/technological instruments from around the world and be able to classify them.
" To have variety in composing and practising music to understand Atatürk's point of view in terms of Turkish and world music.
" To evaluate all social events, improvements, composers related to a specific period and also to understand history, culture, compositions, voicing throughout the history.
" Finding hints by understanding musical symbols for singing and playing instrument.
" Learning the rules of listening and interpreting music.
" Questioning Turkish and World culture, musical pieces, history of music, composers, musical instruments, scientific developments.
" Doing research by using musical theories and presenting the research.
" Using knowledge and abilities acquired through other lessons in musical activities.
Drawing Arts
Aim of arts courses
" Applying art education according to the new multi-disciplinar education parallel to national program in the areas of art, child development and communication.
" Emphasize the importance of arts on the process of education and applying educational tools.
" Development of the view of group work and direction of our students to group work.
" Development of self-expression and organisation.
" Making sensitive, responsible and critically thinking students.
" Enabling students to graduate as sensitive citizens who have acquired art intelligence regardless of their job/work in the future.
Physical Education
Our aim is for our students to be happy and honest citizens who love their nation and country besides being physically and mentally healthy through physical education and social activities. Our secondary aim is to enable our students to spend their time in social, cultural and sportive activities at or out of the school, as well as to develop creative and productive abilities.
While the courses are done in two gymnasiums, two football pitches covered with basketball, voleyball, and athletics areas in open spaces which are found in the campus, the procedure of the courses are based on the teacher and student-centered techniques. When the weather is suitable, the courses are done in open space gymnasium in order to let students benefit from the sun and fresh air.
In our school physical education courses are planned for each class' age, learning level, apart from the students' interests and needs, taking suitable areas for the courses into consideration the aim is to develop students' posture, it is also important not to force the students too much. There are also some subjects like Atatürk and sports, tidiness to be covered. In addition to this basketball, handball, tennis, badminton, table tennis, folk dance are done under supervision of the experienced teachers in each area.
Religion and Ethics
In religion and ethics classes, our main aims are to help our students to understand that they are able to combine their beliefs with their open mind and realize that the religion tries to contribute to the formation of acceptance and open-mindedness, as well as to the settlement of an universal peace, culture, also to introduce the key points of beliefs, rituals and ethics along with giving our students the idea that the cultures other than their own should also be evaluated with respect and acceptance, to help them acquire the talent required to realize the element of love within religion and its indispensability for humanity, in addition to approach everything in a positive and loving way, as well as to help them have a rational and critical approach and distinguish between accurate religious information and superstitions or gossip, as well as between the sufficient and insufficient in terms of religion.
Our students catch up, by means of this course, that wisdom is the main prerequisite of religious responsibility, religion and science are for human's happiness and secularism is the guarantee of freedom of religion and conscience.
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