Foreign Languages
English
With the foreign language lessons applied in Cihangir schools, our students not only know the target language, but also live in a learning environment where the language is used effectively and in accordance with various contexts. “Constructivist English Model”, which is our approach to Cihangir Schools with our education program that supports and complements each other from kindergarten to high school, enables us to direct our students to the right target at the right speed..
We can summarize this goal with the following propositions:
- To provide educational programs suitable for individual learning styles
- To gain a positive attitude towards the language
- To turn foreign language teaching from being a lesson and turn it into an experience
- Providing a wide range of language acquisition inputs with World English apps
- Raising multicultural individuals, not just bilinguals
- Educating individuals who can manage their own learning process
Pre-school
The two most important factors affecting the process in the acquisition of the second language are the age of initiation of the second language, the intensity of practice and exposure. With our enriched bilingual education system Team Up, our students take the determined courses in Turkish-English simultaneously. With curriculum matching studies, it enables them to develop all the achievements learned in the mother tongue simultaneously in English, to gain academic language proficiency in both languages, to express themselves in both languages, and at the same time to create a sense of trust in the second language for the student. Thanks to our double teacher application in our various lessons such as nature-based, learning time and team up, our students acquire all the achievements at the same time.
With our Team Up system, they acquire not only academic but also values education, behavioral developments and cultural inputs in Turkish-English. At this age level, our priority is for our children to develop a positive attitude towards learning foreign languages, not to have fear, anxiety or anxiety about learning English, and to see foreign language learning as a natural part of their daily life and to enjoy this process.
Science is part of our daily life and arouses the child’s natural curiosity about his environment. Thanks to science, the child will begin to discover and learn about his environment. started to be implemented in our preparatory groups. English Mathematics and English Life Sciences Lessons Our students use logical thinking to observe, gather information and draw conclusions. Involving students in applied activities with manipulative use helps embody mathematical concepts.
Primary school
The way to raise world citizens, to give our children a different perspective and a deeper understanding is to make a foreign language a part of life by removing it from just a “lesson”.. With our enriched bilingual education system Team Up, our students acquire all communication skills, values education and vital skills simultaneously in Turkish and English. In this system, students do not learn the English language in a conventional way, on the contrary, they manage their own learning processes by making observations, asking questions, developing new models. With Team Up, our primary goal is to raise not only bilingual, but also multicultural and responsible individuals. With our very attentive team up system at the measurement-evaluation, parent information and feedback point, daily, weekly, monthly, monthly, semester parent feedback is made. All the studies carried out in our lessons consist of studies with effective language use and transferring to daily life. By difference to standard bilingual education programs, our English teachers are not only academic, but also with students in workshop courses such as social and emotional development, life skills, drama and visual arts. All gains acquired throughout the year are learned in bilinguals.
In Cihangir Schools, which brings the quality of education to international criteria, with English Mathematics and English Sciences courses, our students will be educated all over the world with their peers within the scope of the same curriculum, regardless of their peers. All mathematics and science infrastructures are created during primary school education. In this way, they can grasp the concepts they have learned holistically in both languages and integrate more than one discipline and reach a conclusion in daily life and by thinking critically in both fields. Our students who ask questions, conduct research, conduct discussions and reflect on their learning discover different perspectives on various mathematical problems, relationships on numerical data, renewable and non-renewable energy sources, the impact of our choices on our health and many more..
Secondary school
In our secondary school level, studies are carried out to support our students’ intensive language learning as well as academic studies; In our 5th grades, we offer a comprehensive curriculum that reinforces and improves the language skills of students with reading and writing lessons as well as our main course. While our JMUN club looks at world issues from a different perspective, they acquire and develop very important academic skills such as research, writing, discussing, speaking in front of the public, expressing their ideas.
Every year, educational trips are made to countries such as England and America, and students are provided with an active role in creative social activities and club activities in English. Students have the opportunity to prove their language acquisition at world standards by preparing for exams such as TOEFL, Cambridge and PSAT, which have the highest international validity and awareness. Our foreign language education ceases to be a mechanical lesson, and environments where they can use the language effectively and self-confidence are created and they are ensured to have a positive attitude towards language. The importance of content and process progresses together in reading, writing, listening and speaking skills. Our main goal is to train citizens of the world who have developed the ability to use English as a correct communication tool and who are knowledgeable in 21st century skills.
High school
The main purpose that guides the foreign language curriculum is to develop and support the communication skills of the students in different languages. In addition to all basic communication skills, our students at the high school level;
* Understanding texts, events, wishes and emotions that contain words in the everyday language they read,
* To be able to communicate while traveling in the country where the language is spoken, to cope with many situations that may arise,
* To be able to convey their plans, a story, an impression, the subject of the book or movie in English,
* Use information technology, evaluate information correctly, apply, interpret and generate new ideas,
* It is aimed to present, analyze and exhibit critical thinking skills, to examine literary works, to present and present writing skills on various subjects.
In addition to these skills, our corporate language teaching approach, which we define as the ‘Constructivist English Model’, includes teaching the language skills they will use in academic and daily life. As a result of this experience of the student, we want English to be an opportunity, not a threat or obstacle for them, in business and education life, and we make our educational planning and language teaching preferences in this direction. Cihangir Schools High School students take part in various national and international platforms in order to get to know different cultures and reflect what they have learned. They have the opportunity to prepare for exams with the highest international validity and awareness such as TOEFL, SAT, PSAT and to prove their language acquisition at world standards.
German
The second foreign language that starts in the 3rd grade in our schools is German. It is aimed that our students have reached the A2 level when they reach the high school level. We enable our children to use the German language in their daily lives with current and technology-appropriate resources, natural environments where students can use the language, and various language competitions and events.