Extracurricular Activities

All extracurricular activities and club activities will continue under precautions taken in the face to face or distance education processes and with the built infrastructure. If the hybrid model will be followed, the meetings and activities will be held via live stream systems.

Club activities and after school activities that require close contact will be planned in hybrid or face to face education models according to the course of the pandemic.

Ceremonies

All ceremonies stated in the academic calendar will be held online.

Attendance Follow-Up

Within the scope of MoNE instructions, the 2021-2022 academic year will start in face to face mode. The physical school attendance of our students will be essential in this period and will be recorded.

Practices to be followed for our students who reported their chronic illness via E-Nabız will be organized need based and on a school basis and shared with the related students.

In face to face, hybrid or distance education models, our students are required to attend lessons as per MoNE regulations and the attendance records will be kept.

Assessment and Evaluation

The academic year begins with the readiness efforts made by each course. Based on the results of readiness applications given to students by their teachers, departments or other units, lesson designs are made and students are strengthened according to their readiness results. Various activities are conducted and followed by evaluations with the purpose of monitoring our students’ development, determining rooms for improvement, taking precautions to make up, determining and interpreting their strengths.

Assessment and evaluation procedures are organized in line with the Turkish Ministry of National Education’s statements. In case of a switch to distance education or hybrid models, evaluations will be made on a class and level basis through the use of different tools. These tools were planned within the scope of the Digital Transformation Project and integrated in lesson plans. Departments will have the chance to carefully track the academic progress of students via the use of tools that are appropriate for the lesson content.

Guidance and Psychological Counseling

Our school’s Guidance and Psychological Counseling Department planned social-emotional services for students in accordance with distance and face to face education processes. A support program was prepared by experts in the field to meet the basic developmental and psychosocial needs of our students and parents in the pandemic period such as normalization, strengthening, reestablishing bonds and looking at the future with hope. There will also be a parent version of this program, which will be reinforced with the consultancy of leading academicians and experts and will be spread throughout the year.

Guidance and Psychological Counseling Department plans and realizes the social-emotional readiness efforts within the K12 integrity. Students’ needs will be determined via assessment tools that will be used at the start of the year, GPC class activities, student/parent information forms and data collected from other resources. In line with these determined needs, social-emotional development of students will be tracked through individual student and parent meetings, GPC class activities, orientations, professional guidance-career plan efforts and bulletins (for students, teachers, parents). At the end of the year, the progress will be assessed by the level counselors and the next year will be planned.

In addition to psychosocial support, the online Parenting Academy program that was initiated last year to support parents’ parenting skills and improve the quality of the support they provide for their children in the pandemic will continue this year. Our school’s experts will specifically be working on fields such as the cognitive and mental foundations of learning, supporting student’s learning progress and motivation.

Primary school practices will include cognitive support along with social-emotional support while for practices in middle school and high school the focus will be based on needs that emerge during the pandemic and characteristics of the adolescence period.

Regardless of the model to be applied, teachers, deans and level psychological counselors will work in coordination to support the students’ social-emotional development.

The Pandemic Period Counseling Bulletin is available here.

High School Turkish University and Overseas College Counseling

Our Turkish University counselors will have face-to-face meetings with the students in line with the pandemic conditions. Meetings with parents will continue to be held online.

The Overseas Universities Counseling Office will likewise, continue supporting our students face-to-face and online by considering the pandemic conditions. All meetings with parents will continue to be held online.

School – Family Cooperation

It is our top priority to keep track of our students’ holistic development, share our teachers’ observations and evaluations and look out for the best interest of our students by setting a common road map upon getting information based on our parents’ opinions and observations. Within this scope; various parent meetings have been planned for different purposes starting from the enrollment and adaptation process in our school and also follow-up/evaluation activities that include students, parents and the teachers in the process have been structured. General Parent Meetings, Grade Level and Section Based Parent Meetings, Parent Meet-Ups, Parent Seminars and Trainings are planned to be held online. In this process, the appointment system used for setting up meetings with our teachers will be implemented for online meetings. In addition to the parent meetings specified on the academic calendar, the dates of the grade level based parent gatherings will be announced later. Moreover, Sharing Time activities will be organized to support the student-teacher and parent synergy in younger age groups. Our parents may contact our teachers, department heads, Guidance and Psychological Counseling department and Grade Level Deans regarding our students whenever they need.