Contributions to the Educational Community

The vision embodied by King’s Academy dictates that a school’s success is not measured simply by how well it educates its own students. Our value lies also in the ripple effect our students have as they return to their communities as adults and how well we enrich and ameliorate the educational climate, both directly and indirectly, for schools all around it. This latter challenge is one which we aspire to meet through key initiatives, including:

 

• Provide teacher training opportunities within and beyond King's Academy. King's is developing a robust, in-house program for our teaching faculty to continually hone their pedagogical skills and learn from their peers. We plan to expand this program to professional development for teachers from institutions throughout Jordan. We believe that this will benefit these teachers professionally, their institutions' offerings and, most importantly, the quality of education available to students in Jordan.
• Use our facilities and resources to establish a consortium of like-minded secondary schools across Jordan and the region. A preliminary gathering was held in March 2006, with great enthusiasm expressed by all the participants. Attendees included heads of school, teachers, those involved in educational design and IT development and others, with representation from schools in Jordan, Lebanon, Bahrain, Egypt, Qatar and Turkey.
• Establish an organization of Jordanian schools interested in interscholastic cooperation and competitions ranging from debate teams, to sports teams and clubs devoted to social service and betterment. This might include, for example, spearheading a national science competition open to all schools in Jordan, both public and private, to encourage students to undertake original individual and group research projects that will stimulate the interest of our students in new fields of inquiry such as biotechnology, genetics and the cognitive sciences, as well as more traditional ones. Also in doing so, we hope to share our resources with other institutions of learning in collaborative ventures that will benefit all parties.