Hariri High School III

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Hariri High School III aspires to educate a knowledgeably and culturally capable generation that is aware of its capacities, cognizant of human values, sensible to beauty, able to adapt to changing circumstances, prepared to positively react within its environment, and committed to responsible citizenship to develop into free, empathetic and cooperative learners open to the community and the global world. Our General Educational Objectives are:

• Develop the intellectual, social, emotional, and physical aspects of the learner’s personality.
• Give the learners the chance to acquire the integrated and essential skills which contribute to their capacity building and critical thinking, and help them in expressing themselves fluently and independently.
• Enhance the relationship between the learners, their families, school, community, and country and ensure the following of the Quran instructions and the rules of conduct and good manners.
• Build a personality that is prideful of its unique traits and ability to communicate and interact properly and openly with school staff, peers, and adults, which would later ease the integration of the learners in the whole wider community.
• Continuously assess students’ learning, based on individual differences and grade-level expectations, to help improve their educational and social performances.
• Use education technology and audio-visual aids to complement the teaching-learning process.
• Involve students in doing projects, presentations, and group work activities, which are considered an integral part of the curriculum.
• Ensure an academically, culturally, artistically, and socially rich school life, which meets students’ expectations and realizes their ambitions.
• Use proficiently the native and second and third languages, which fosters cultural and educational diversity.

Exploratory curriculum at Hariri High School III

• Dance
• Music
• Computer
• Arm our children with media studies
• Art at Hariri High School III
• Theater

All students have the right to an arts education as a fundamental part of basic education. Dance has been recognized as one of the five fine arts taught at Hariri High School III. Teaching Dance includes creative work, dance forms and techniques, dance history, performance and production, aesthetics, and criticism. By providing students with opportunities to learn through movement, dance incorporates the use of auditory, visual, and kinesthetic modalities, more commonly referred to as hearing, seeing, and doing. Dance is a powerful educational device for meeting the physical, intellectual, and social needs of students. Perceptions, thoughts, and emotions are grounded in a physical experience through dance. As a participatory experience, dance nurtures and fosters a sense of community. The value of group work and cooperation is inherent and reinforced. Dance education also provides students with exploration, selection, organization, and evaluation experiences.

At Hariri High School III, students are constantly developing their musical “habits of mind”. Studies have indicated that musical training physically develops the part of the left side of the brain known to be involved with processing language, and can wire the brain's circuits in specific ways. Music provides children with a means of self-expression. Music classes will prepare our students to:

• Listen
• Question
• Create
• Reflect
• Perform

We believe that all students need to be proficient computer users or "computer literate”. At our school, the result of computer literacy is not to operate computers, but to use technology as a tool for organization, communication, research, and problem-solving. Hariri High School III has stopped teaching isolated "computer skills" and is now teaching integrated "information skills”. We have found that information skills can be effectively integrated when the skills directly relate to the content area curriculum and to classroom assignments, and when they are tied together in a logical and systematic information process model. The school is equipped with a computer lab, accommodating 21 students working on individual, networked terminals.

Hariri3 School makes media studies a core school subject to help children negotiate the words and images the world bombards them with. We believe that developing general critical thinking skills is manifested actively in Media sessions. Students are now participants in the media every day. They should understand what they're dealing with.

The art classes teach vital modes of seeing, imagining, inventing, and thinking. While students in art classes learn techniques specific to art, such as how to draw, how to mix paint, or how to center a pot, they're also taught a remarkable array of mental habits. Such skills include visual-spatial abilities, reflection, self-criticism, and the willingness to experiment and learn from mistakes. Hariri High School III provides her students with two big Art rooms which accommodate space for individual and small or large group activities with a student clean-up area separate from the general work area. They have standard classroom windows. Where possible, the windows are oriented to the north to allow natural lighting without glare. The room accommodates up to 30 students.

Drama can challenge students’ perceptions about their world and themselves. Dramatic exploration can provide students with an outlet for emotions, thoughts, and dreams that they might not otherwise have the means to express. Drama is communication. Like all the arts, Drama allows students to communicate with and understand others in new ways. Perhaps more than any other art form, Drama also allows children to do training in the very practical aspects of communication, so necessary in today's increasingly information-centered world. Our students who participate in dramatic activities are less likely to have difficulty speaking in public, more Persuasive in their communications, both written and oral, better able to put themselves into others' shoes and relate to them, and will have a more positive, confident self-image. We believe that dramatic activity requires self-control and discipline that will serve the student well in all aspects of life. Students in Drama will learn to work together, to cooperate, to find the best way for each member of a group to contribute and to listen to and accept the viewpoints and contributions of others. Drama is an important tool for preparing students to live and work in a world that is increasingly team-oriented rather than hierarchical.

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