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A teacher in Saudi Arabia has sent us sone class images in 2000. The school was an all boys private internatuoinal school attended by Saudi and expat childre from other Muslim countries. This was a private school with a British curriculum. The children came from a mixture of different Muslim countries. There were a few children whose background was Christian. We taught the British Curriculum along with Arabic studies and Islamic Studies.
The subjects were taught to the standard taught in the U.K. However we had to take account of the children's English ability so work was often differenciated to develop language skills. The children mostly came from non-English speaking families who wanted the boys to learn English. The darker skinned boy was a Muslim from an African country. About half the boys were Saudi. Quite a number were from Egypt. In Maths they were on a comparable level to British Children. They were good at memorising mathematical information. Geometry was also something they were good at. Science was also a favourite topic. Having hands on experience was new for them. Handwriting allowed them to use their artistic talents and their copy books were a delight to see. Transfering this skill across the curriculum was another matter.
A teacher in Saudi Arabia has sent us sone class images in 2000. The school was an all boys private internatuoinal school.
The school was attended by Saudi and expat childre from other Muslim countries. There were a few children whose background was Christian. The darker skinned boy was a Muslim from an African country. About half the boys were Saudi. Quite a number were from Egypt. The pupils were a happy group of students and very motivated and a delight to teach. They got up to alot of mischief though. One trick was to tamper with the classroom clock so that the lesson finished sooner than it should. The prank was rumbled when they an over zealous time change.
Many of the Muslim teachers came from America. Some of them had converted to Islam.
This was a private school with a British curriculum. The children came from a mixture of different Muslim countries. We taught the British Curriculum along with Arabic studies and Islamic Studies.
The subjects were taught to the standard taught in the U.K. However we had to take account of the children's English ability so work was often differenciated to develop language skills. The children mostly came from non-English speaking families who wanted the boys to learn English. In Maths they were on a comparable level to British Children. They were good at memorising mathematical information. Geometry was also something they were good at. Science was also a favourite topic. Having hands on experience was new for them. Handwriting allowed them to use their artistic talents and their copy books were a delight to see. Transfering this skill across the curriculum was another matter.
Some of the books came from Britain but the Math scheme was from the US.
It was text book orientated and quite a thick one two. It was very colourful and well presented. Its difficulty was Mental arithmetic skill development. The English was far too difficult for many of the pupils. We made a supplementary booklet with simplified English. (Differentiation) so that this aspect of the curse could be covered.
The reading scheme was British and one which was widely used in British schools. We also had older schemes too. There was a set of Ladybird reading scheme books. For certain children this was of much benefit to them.
one teacher had collected lots of stories from newspapers and had written a comprehension book using this material. This was in the days when computers were coming into use. He had typed the stories and then photocopied the master to make the work cards for his class.
SRA reading laboritory was also used but it benefitted the more able reader and was well liked by them.
The books we used for Arabic and Islamic studies were produced by the Saudi Educational Department. The Islamic teachers were Saudi but several were American Muslim converts. The Arabic texbooks were in Arabic. There was nothing contraversal in the lessons which were taught. The Saudi teachers were always willing to help anyone who wished to know more about Arabic and islamic teachings. [HBC note: HBC's admittedly limited experience is that Muslims are often quite willing to talk about Islam as long as you don't ask hard questions. When one begins to ask about Koranic references to women, violence, war, other religions, etc. the response is often either hostile or the conversation is quickly ended. Try this question out. Does a great religion really over young girl virgins as a reward? This comes up in many Koran Surahs.]
There was no dschool uniform. The boys wore their own clothes. Many boys wore white or light-colored collsared shirts with long dark blue pants. Other boys dressed more casusally with "T"-dshirts and trendt pants.
The students wore Western dress.
There were three schools in the company. The Boys International School, The Girls International School and The Arab speaking boy school. I had opportunity to teach here. It was an interesting school. The boys were on the wild side so it was exciting teaching. Here the boys wore Arab clothes.
In the neighbourhood children wore mainly Western clothes. There was a large expat community from Pakistan. The boys played cricket alot and would have done their country proud they were such skilled players.
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