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Aims
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In accordance with the
Primary School Programme of
the Turkish Ministry of
Education, the language of
teaching in our school is
Turkish.
Our aims, led by the belief
that education and training
are equally important, are
as follows:
• To ensure that our
students enjoy school,
• To help our students
develop their emotional,
social, cognitive and
physical aspects by
approaching them within the
frame work of love,
attention, and trust,
• To help our students
attain basic habits through
parent-teacher cooperation,
• To provide opportunities
for our students to express
themselves freely in both
Turkish and English and
attain self-control,
• To develop their
creativity,
• To ensure that the
students use Turkish
correctly and effectively,
• To help them gain reading
habits,
• To provide opportunities
for them to learn through
observation and experience,
• To raise happy individuals
that are able to use
generalization, principles,
and concepts, exclusive of
memorization, who bring out
their cognitive skills by
analysing and rationalizing
and having all these
qualities reflect on their
success and behaviour.
All private schools make
various tasks according to
different aims. Therefore,
all schools have different
characteristics and these
characteristics distinguish
them from each other, thus
determining their place in
the educational world.
Since our school does not
have a high-school section,
the different qualities that
we apply to prepare
competent students for
high-schools and higher
educational institutes can
be summarized as follows:
1. Efdal acts in accordance
with the principle that
education and training
should develop students
thinking skills, hence gives
great importance to it. (For
more information, please
view 'Education
in Efdal')
2. A program which we call
'The Value System' is
applied in our institution.
In accordance with this
program, each class has an
hour assigned for 'The Value
System' per week. 'The Value
System of Efdal' was
implemented in 2007-2008
academic year. This program
was prepared to help the
students’ personal
development. During the
preparation of this program,
our students were observed
closely to have the system
apply not to general, but to
the more specific- the Efdal
Family.
The aim here is to get our
students to know their
responsibilities and act
accordingly / to
respectfully listen to
others / to feel the comfort
of expressing themselves
correctly and at the right
time / to know not only the
price but also the value of
what they own, to know and
internalize the reason why
Ataturk is to be followed /
to know themselves and
realize that they are unique
in the world and understand
that others are as well and
make their evaluations in
that respect / to have our
students understand that
creativity is not a skill or
a gift given to certain
people , thus.
3. In principle, Efdal is
against private lessons and
training centres. Therefore,
our students' incompetencies
are dealt within school on
individual basis. To provide
and continue this quality,
even though one teacher
would be enough for Turkish,
Maths, Science, and Social
Studies lessons for 6th,
7th, and 8th grades, we
provide 3 teachers for each
department for this aim. For
the lower school (1st-5th
grade) a separate homeroom
teacher is available only to
help diminish these
incompetencies. This program
is carried out in class
hours during the day and
also out of class hours
during the week.
4. In accordance with the
idea that success in
education and training is
possible through
communication between
parents, school and
students, each student has a
communication notebook that
s/he uses daily. The fact
that our students keep a
record of their homework
daily and observation of
parent – teacher
correspondences through the
notebook helps resolve
issues before they turn into
problems. Moreover, the
Information System for the
Parents (VBS) which is part
of the school website is
another way of providing
parent-teacher
communication.
5. During the summer
holiday, our students are
assigned homework prepared
by their teachers that will
take up 15-30 minutes of
their time daily. These are
collected during the first
week of the following
academic year to be checked
and handed back to the
students.
6. Through assessment and
evaluation exams, students'
levels are determined and
announced to the parents.
These evaluations help us
focus on each student
individually.
With these differences that
we apply we provide our
students with a good basic
education. Hence, while our
students prepare for
Anatolian High-Schools and
Private High-School Exams,
they also prepare for the
basics of University
Entrance Exams. The results
of our researches have shown
us that a large portion of
the University Entrance Exam
questions come from Primary
School curriculum and there
are great similarities
between them.
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