The objective of the classes offered in the Turkish Language and Literature Department is to help students raise their academic level and become individuals who care about local and global issues and have universal intellectual standards.
Our Goals
The goals are to develop skills regarding examining texts, interpretation, comprehension, explanation, and language, and to help students learn about works of art and enjoy art.
Our Teaching Practices
We want our students to have a role in the community as self-sufficient individuals who have advanced analysis, synthesis, comparison, and interpretation skills and who can adopt a critical perspective based on sound background knowledge by helping them learn the methods to have access to knowledge and apply what they learn.
At the end of each semester, the Turkish Language and Literature Department reviews its activities and pays attention to becoming more efficient and well-rounded for the coming academic year.
In line with our mission and vision, in Turkish and Turkish Language and Literature classes, we give a broad language and literature background. At the same time, we integrate YGS and LYS (university entrance exams) readiness programmes into our curriculum as being successful at these exams is another goal for us.
We invite contemporary artists to school for social and cultural events such as interviews and festivals so that our students may exchange ideas with these people.
As Terakki Foundation Schools, we have been organizing and hosting a poetry festival in Istanbul since 2000.
Our objective is to help our students encounter poetry, one of the most important branches of literature, through this festival and to raise their emotional development, and to encourage them to write poems and work on fine arts, and to grow as social individuals.
The competition is open to all high school students in Istanbul. Moreover, a poetry workshop with a poet is organized before the award ceremony for students who are enthusiastic. A committee of poets reviews poems that are sent for competition and the students who qualify are awarded by the Terakki Foundation Schools. After the competition, a poetry book titled Sözcüklerle Dans (Dancing with Words) is published.