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Since its foundation in 1977, our non-profit, K-12 Dhahran
Ahliyya Schools have been committed to continuous progress
in learning. Our strategy has been to provide a rigorous,
well organized, ongoing program of professional development
including workshops, coaching, and support for all its
teachers while they are on the job. The objective is to
enhance their understanding and skills as teachers and to
increase their repertoire of strategies that are compatible
with the most up-to-date educational research and classroom
applications.
In order to fulfill this objective, DAS
developed a comprehensive plan for professional development
and teacher performance assessment. As part of this plan,
workshops are held annually every summer for three to four
weeks. During the school year, in-class coaching and support
for planning and implementation is provided to teachers by
our own dedicated educational supervisors.
As a result of our commitment to continuous
professional development, DAS has acquired a reputation for
providing, a caring and supportive atmosphere and for
maintaining high academic standards. In the school's
philosophy, these two factors are strongly linked to each
other and to developing the strong self-esteem and
commitment to life-long learning that is essential for
students' happiness and productivity throughout life. With
98% of our graduates going to four-year university programs,
they have distinguished themselves in their studies and in
the positions they have attained locally and
internationally.onally.
Determined to build a professional learning
community in our schools and to keep ourselves informed of
the most recent research and best practices in educations,
we have searched for the best of international educational
literature and translated into Arabic what we found
appropriate to enhance our plan for continuous development.
Thus, we have been able to publish about seventy books in
education through our non-profit publishing project, the
Education Book House, which is an integral part of DAS.
These books have not only helped us, but have also helped
ten of thousands of educators and institutions in the Arab
world. Many of these books are now being used in teacher
education program in Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Bahrain, Oman,
and Jordan.
Over the last two decades, the DAS Educational
Development Center has given in-service training to several
thousands of educators in the Arab world, especially in
Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Lebanon and Oman, based on our
published books and our school's experience. In fact, we
have not had time to respond to all the requests for such
training from many educational institutions.
After thirty-four years of nurturing new
teachers in our schools and through the workshops given at
other institutions. DAS is now ready to participate in the
planning and implementation of pre-service teacher education
in order to benefit both the teachers and the children whose
lies they touch.
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The persons in charge of training is:
Fawzi Jammal
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Yagana Fawzi
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