Who We Are
Our idea depends on that each child is unique, so we aim for using technology represented in electronic educational games, mixing learning English with fun so as to enhance the learning process, acquire new skills, improving motivation, attention and other cognitive components. We also aim for promoting increased opportunities for learning and continued practice.
Mission
Giving visually impaired children the opportunity to play games that they can access is important, because it gives them a chance to enjoy themselves and to do the things that other children are doing. It also gives them more of a means to socialize if there are adaptations made that make fun activities accessible to them, it puts them in more of a position to engage with other children.
Vision
- Supporting students' psychological development and educate them as free-thinking minds to create productive environment to let students be creative.
- Providing appropriate pedagogies and environments (classrooms, equipment, resources, and technology) that will lead to student success.
- Balancing the needs of general education, communication, diversity, global perspectives, interdisciplinary studies.
Objectives
The objectives of teaching English are intended to familiarize the pupils with the language (orally and in writing) in a stress free and fun-loaded atmosphere to prepare them for more demanding tasks in the subsequent stages. Below is the general statement of the performance objectives of teaching English as a foreign language in terms of the different language skills.
- To assure that learning English is easy while developing a child's desire to learn a new language.
- To develop positive learning habits such as turn taking, organizational skills, and cooperative learning.
- To enlarge children's horizons so that they become familiar with different cultures while developing an understanding of their own.
- To experience language awareness in terms of how English works and differs from Arabic.
- To enable children to communicate simply but selectively through the development of oral proficiency in English.
- To lay solid foundations for the development of literacy skills in English.
- To develop positive attitudes towards learning foreign language.
- To enable pupils to appreciate the importance of English in the progress of Science and Technology at both national and international levels.
- To encourage openness to foreign cultures.
- To develop the skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing in " integrated way, with the focus on the development of communication skills.
- To develop the ability to extract information from a listening or reading text or through different forms of mass media.
- To train pupils in the skills of logical and critical thinking.
- To provide for self-realization focusing on this concept through assigning tasks to pupils which contribute to this purpose.
- To train the pupils to participate positively in dialogue and to respect the opinions of others e.g. through debate and discussion and the exploration of concepts.
- To train the pupils in problem-solving, collaborative learning, and the use of different learning resources.
- To develop skills for learner-autonomy by enabling pupils to acquire a set of learning strategies e.g. problem-solving, discovery-learning, creative thinking and critical reading.
- To encourage the development of pupils' creativity.
- To develop moral and social values in pupils by encouraging attitudes of tolerance, cooperation and teamwork.