curriculum
Al Rushed American Private School strives to offer a comprehensive, relevant, integrated, and balanced curriculum based on the California State Standards and UAE Ministry of Education. Our curriculum is unique and reflects our vision, mission, and our commitment to personal development and academic excellence. The structure and content cater to the cultural and social sensitivities of our school. It is a language-rich, student-centered, skills-driven, and outcomes-focused curriculum intended to promote intellectual curiosity, critical thinking, creativity, innovation, independent thinking, and lifelong learning.
The curriculum mapping design ensures that students develop a set of competencies, skills, qualities, and understanding through a broad range of compulsory subjects. Information & Communications Technology (ICT) is embedded as a tool to enhance the curriculum and spans across almost all levels with a clear vision that all students will learn effectively, progress academically, and develop technology and media literacy efficiently. All curricula are carefully crafted to ensure that students will be able to master the fundamentals to be promoted to the next academic level. In order to sustain first-rate curriculum design, our Senior Leadership Team (SLT) monitors the quality and delivery of instruction through an in-depth, research-based, and ongoing process of evaluation and improvement.
The student-centered approach with interdisciplinary and differentiated teaching and learning enables students to develop their full potential. This progression ensures that our students will continue their academic progress and personal development beyond school and succeed in a range of career pathways and future endeavors.
A variety of academic support programs, curriculum modifications, and intervention strategies enable the teachers and other learning support staff to fulfill the school’s mission of addressing, supporting, and identifying the special educational needs, including the gifts and talents of our students through a flexible admission policy and commitment to inclusion.
Our program enables the students to develop their language skills and reading literacy from an early age because:
- In KG, English and Arabic are emphasized and a strong foundation is laid.
- From KG, the curriculum is delivered in English as the language of instruction.
- Islamic Education, Moral Education and Social Studies are taught in Arabic.