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Ahmad Bin Hanbal Independent Secondary School for Boys

Academic Year 2009 - 2010

The English Club

Vision

In accordance with the school Vision and Mission Statement, the Department of English seeks to empower the students by stimulating and developing their imaginative, critical and moral faculties, as a high level of fluency in English is a prerequisite to effective learning, successful communication, and critical thinking.

Mission

The English Department is dedicated to foster student success by providing a solid academic foundation and maximize intellectual potential in each individual.

Expose students to a variety of critical orientations and foster appropriate argumentative skills.

Promote correctness, clarity and precision of expression in students’ speaking and writing.

Train students up to and beyond curriculum standards in terms of critical, imaginative, and interactive skills.

Engage in and promote academic research.

School students will communicate effectively, access information by various means, think critically and problem solve in a timely manner, successfully meet state standards, and will achieve success through efficient organizational and time management skills.

Keep up with trends and developments in the teaching of English.

The English club was launched

The club also runs the school’s

to provide opportunities for the

Book

students to develop and use

debating

English outside the classroom.

Qatar Debate.

The

The English Club also provides

club

groups,

runs

conversation

quizzes

competitions

to

and

other

promote

Week in

and

inter-school

conjunction

with

opportunities to extend gifted and talented students.

English.

Students have the opportunity to speak English outside the class 2

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Debating The English department has been involved in debating from the very beginning of the academic

Objectives

year.

Align Ali its i practice with the School’s mission statement.

Debating is a crucial skill in the

Sustain an environment of challenging and collaborative

development

of

the

learning.

student’s

personality as well as his linguistic

Students attending workshops on debating skills and techniques

capabilities. It also involves the

Assist disadvantaged students to meet the required linguistic standards and skills.

students in the community and

Our department attends Doha

Engage in ongoing professional development.

encourages

Debate and participates in the

Participate frequently in conferences and workshops.

them

to

discover

more about the world he lives in.

Qatar Debating competition.

Teachers accompanied groups of students to attend the “Doha Debate” TV show 6

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Modern teaching methods fostering students’ learning What students need in the 21st

teaching techniques, use ICT,

century are materials and resources

use different media, encourage

that motivate them by meeting

cooperative learning and create

their interests. Teachers varyy their

positive learning environments.

Follow up the students in need of academic support The

English

teachers

give

students professional support to improve their learning and academic results.

Based on an accurate test results analysis, they are able to identify the learning areas needing support.

The tests analysis covers all the language skills and compares between each level classes The

analysis

used

as

on

Teachers use ICT andd different diff fferent med media dia iinn cl classes lasses

which

a

is basis

remedial

programmes

are

The department has also

designed to foster the

The members of the English

succeeded

students’

Department

positive

Safe environment: promote

an

in

and

establishing collaborative

intellectually, emotionally and

relationships with parents

socially

environment

when individual programmes

thoughtful

are to be designed to meet

safe

through and 4

good,

challenging

planning.

their child’s needs.

and

strengths

overcome

their

weaknesses.

A remedial programme has been implemented to cater for students disadvantaged by educational background 5