Principles and Goals

Principles

Our principles are;

  • To help students embrace Atatürk’s principles and ideology as an approach not as ideas that stay on paper,
  • To help students keep their critical power and perspective they are prone To due To their ages and modern universal culture throughout their lives; strengthen their qualities regarding Tolerance, embracing novelties, and correcting misconceptions in a pluralist, democratic, and secular community,
  • To help this knowledge and these skills become useful in life and higher education; To keep and support student curiosity at the maximum level; To give importance To development of expression skills; To strengthen ways of verbal expression and other forms of expression (written expression, expression by drawing, expression using body language, etc.)
  • To help students perceive the importance of solidarity in life and make it a part of their lives; To enable students understand that competition is a part of life as competition has become very important in current circumstances; To highlight that competition is first and foremost a competition with the self
  • To guide students Towards success that is out of their comfort zone and To encourage them To move To the maximum level of their capacities,
  • To perceive and evaluate exams as a Tool without thinking that education is only oriented Towards exam success
  • To help connect science curricula and the macro Topics/issues of the daily life and Today’s world so that science is disconnected from daily life; and develop students’ problem-solving skills
  • To give importance To social sciences and behavioral sciences as much as science itself
  • To equip students with knowledge and skills necessary for life and education
  • To look at life as a social unit
  • To help students develop in many intellectual aspects (planning, strategy development, changing tactics, implementation in stages, creative thinking, creating options, comprehending uncertainties, decision-making, etc.)
  • To help develop and enrich mental skills and emotional intelligence (self-confidence, emotional control, solidarity, self-discipline, optimistic perspective, etc.)
  • To help develop and reinforce students’ sense of aesthetics and development through activities carried in and out of class
  • To increase students’ sensitivity and interest Towards art and To help them make art a part of their lives
  • To give importance To sports as an important Tool for physical and psychological development; To help perceive it as a Tool for self-expression and communication with other people
  • To render the approach and purpose of education as a Tool for synthesis not for rote learning and To help students reflect on the answers of the exam questions not write the answers they memorized
  • To render the physical conditions of the school as the most convenient, efficient, and richest learning environment
  • To make learning possible outside the school; and To help students acquire a sensitivity regarding community service
  • To help students use the foreign languages in daily life

Our Goals

Our goals are as follows

  • To take students’ individual differences, needs, and interests inTo consideration,
  • To evaluate and guide students’ pace of learning and abilities,
  • To maximize their potential,
  • To arouse curiosity and increase student motivation,
  • To enable students To take part in at least one of the sports, cultural, and social activities within the structure of general education.

Getting prepared for upper grade-levels and higher education

  • To enable students To receive a good score in the entrance exams,
  • To help them get a score that would enable them To choose private school, science high schools, and AnaTolian high schools,
  • To help them get a score that would enable them To choose state and foundation universities,
  • To guide students regarding professions and schools,

Foreign Language

  • To help maximize the variety of languages and language education that is a requirement of the age,

Behavior

  • To help students learn how To learn well,
  • To enable them To make decisions on their own,
  • To undertake responsibility in group work and To help them participate,
  • To help them inquire and think critically,
  • To enable them To express themselves accurately and with courage,
  • To help them take on a habit of attending at least one of the sports, cultural, and social activities.

Proper and effective communication between family and school

  • To create an environment where open communication and cooperation are possible and where parents are informed about students’ academic, social, and emotional development as the starting point is the fact that family is one of the most important stakeholders of education.