1. Evolving Maktab

2. Background Have been in operation for two and a half years.
Learning and struggling all the
time
Grateful for your feedback
Presentation to keep you abreast of all the changes at Maktab

3. Outline Changes in Preschool
Changes in Junior School and Middle School
Curricular
Administrative
General news

4. Preschool

5. Preschool Portfolios
Introduction of Portfolios: record of your child’s learning process
What the child has learnt
How he/she has gone about learning; how she thinks, questions, analyses, synthesises, creates
How he/she interacts – emotionally, intellectually, socially

6. Curricular changes Mainly changes are in KG
Social studies (Identity, roots and place)
Science experiments (American Chemical Society)

7. Junior School and Middle School Curricular Changes

8. Urdu Grades 1-5 Grades 6-8 Punjab Textbook Board books as readers
Introduction to Urdu literature

9. English Grades 1-6 Grades 7-9
Switch to Cambridge Primary.
Grades 7-9
Switch to Cambridge Checkpoint
Significant exposure to different genres in English Literature especially in grades 6-8.
Should make O levels easy

10. French
Formal textbooks, workbooks, literary companions
Multimedia

11. Community Service Grade 7 Grade 8-10 Voluntary participation
IB guidelines are about 50 hours per year.
Our passing requirement:
14 Sundays each academic year.
Hope that you will do more at home or at Maktab.

12. Mathematics Grades 1-6 (1st term). Grades 1-8
Math circles added to curriculum
Grades 1-8
Khan Academy incorporated. Helpful for parents as well.
Grade 6. Option to choose theory or applied after 2nd semester.
Grades 6-11
Mapping of Theory Stream to the regular Cambridge stream done.

13. Science Grades 1-5 Grades 6-8 curriculum changed
Additions to ensure adherence to Key Stage(UK) standards.
Grades 6-8 curriculum changed
Grade 6. Earth Sciences and Health
Grade 7. Chemistry and Health
Grade 8. Biology, Physics, and Health

14. Social Studies
Canadian curriculum (citizenship, identity, multicultural global outlook).
Grades 1-3. Gentle introduction.
No books (Canadian). Side by side activities along with textbook (Peak Publishing).
Examination based on projects and in class assessment (oral and written)
Exam preparation. Help your children become more thoughtful citizens of Pakistan.
Textbooks for Grades 4-6, and Grade 7(partial).
Notes being developed for Grades 7 and 8.

15. Computer Science Grades 1-4 Grade 5 Grade 6 Grade 7-8
Following curriculum developed by Code.org.
Gentler introduction and more participatory.
Grade 5
Scratch Programming Course developed at Harvard Graduate School of Education
Grade 6
Typing and Microsoft Office
Reading and augmenting Scratch Game.
Grade 7-8
Beauty and Joy of Computing developed at UC Berkeley

16. Administrative Changes in Junior School and Middle School

17. Grading Scheme Relative weights 1st term class. 10 %
1st term midterm. 10 %
1st term final. 20 %
2nd term class. 10 %
2nd term midterm. 10 %
Final. 40 %

18. Minimum Promotion Requirements
Grades 1-6
Assessment of class teacher based on subject teacher recommendations and consultation with parents.
Grades 7-8
Overall GPA of 2.0 with a minimum of 2.0 in each of the major subjects (English, Urdu and Mathematics)

19. Improved Feedback
More detailed and formal student feedback in terms of Learning Outcomes. For example
Understands (using simple pictures) and applies the multiplication algorithm with and without regrouping
Applies phonic knowledge and skills as the route to decode words until automatic decoding has become embedded and reading is fluent.

20. Maktab News

21. Miscellaneous News Academic Web Portal Demo.
Students organized in two Houses
Camaraderie and competition
Inter-House and individual competitions. Details on the website.
Sports
Declamation / Recitation
Essay writing
Four thousand new books being added to library

22. Thank you
Any questions?