The Koç School

The Koç School offers a coherent and consistent K-12 curriculum. The student-centered educational program seeks to provide a stimulating learning environment and places great importance on developing the knowledge and skills of students through interdisciplinary activities, projects, and research tasks supported by information technology. The objectives of this program are to help all students:

• Acquire fundamental knowledge and skills
• Encounter and reflect on cultural and cognitive perspectives
• Develop awareness of global issues and their implications for Turkey
• Engage in peaceful conflict resolution
• Develop creativity and awareness
• Learn the meaning of “responsible citizenship” by means of activities within and outside the school

At all grade levels, the instruction of Turkish as the students’ mother tongue, and English as their second language is of utmost importance at The Koç School. The school’s success in language education has been proven by its graduates’ fluency in both languages. German or French is also offered as a second foreign language starting in the 5th grade in order to assist students achieve proficiency in their second foreign language.

Our Guiding Statements

Our Guiding Statements consist of our Purpose, Vision, Mission and Dispositions.

• Purpose

      Our purpose is to cultivate a culture of flourishing amidst the complexity of an interdependent world.

• Vision

    The Koç School is a community of life-long learners with a global perspective – guided by reason and conscience, grounded in well-being

• Mission

  The Koç School guides students to become ethical individuals and leaders capable of building a better world.

• Dispositions

  The guiding statements of the Koç School were crafted through an in-depth study of the competencies essential for steering the school toward the future, while always upholding its foundational values.

Empathy

Adaptation

Innovation

Discernment

Integration