Group Leading -10th grade - Nadia
The Group Leading Sessions for 10th Graders at Horizons Academy are thoughtfully crafted into nine impactful sessions, each dedicated to addressing critical and relevant topics that are pivotal during this crucial stage of students' development. These sessions are not just a part of the curriculum but serve as a foundational experience at the Academy, with the following key objectives:
Understanding Horizons Academy: Ensure all students, new and returning, are aligned with the Academy's vision and mission.
Clarifying Vision and Majors: Guide students in discovering their interests and choosing the right major.
Preparation for Academic Tracks: Provide insights into prospective tracks and help students make informed decisions about their future studies and study destinations.
Preparing for Life Abroad: Equip students with the knowledge to navigate different cultures and challenges like racism and stereotypes.
Research Skills: Teach effective research techniques and resource utilization.
Ethical Conduct: Instill a commitment to ethical behavior in academic and professional environments.
Group Leading -9th grade - Haya-2024/2025
The Group Leading Sessions for 9th graders are thoughtfully structured into ten impactful sessions, each addressing essential and critical topics tailored to this pivotal stage of their development. These sessions serve as a foundational pillar in the students' journey at Horizons Academy, with the following core objectives:
Ensure all students align with the Academy’s core values, vision, and mission.
Help students build self-awareness, emotional intelligence, and resilience to handle academic and personal challenges.
Encourage students to think critically about career choices, time management, and problem-solving through debates and design thinking.
Teach students to express their ideas clearly and confidently in interviews, debates, and presentations.
Foster collaboration, empathy, and understanding of social issues like bullying, encouraging positive contributions to their community.
Provide practical skills for scholarships, money management, and career planning to set students up for academic and professional success.
Guide students in discovering their passions and aligning them with their goals for meaningful personal development.
- Teacher: Sama Saifi
- Teacher: haya shuqair
Critical Design Thinking- Trimester 1 - 2024
Critical & Design Thinking (CDT)
The modules of this course are designed by Horizons Academy to forge a 36-hour hybrid course that targets nurturing the student’s creative, critical, and design-thinking skills. Aiming to enhance their abilities to solve complex problems in their studies and careers.
The course is divided into 2 parts: theoretical and practical. It involves systematic and human-centered processes to identify and frame problems, seek different perspectives and viewpoints, identify alternative explanations and solutions, and generate and test ideas. And ultimately, grasp how to make decisions that add value to others, and promote positive outcomes and opportunities.
By the end of the course, students work on a project that allows them to engage in social and/or entrepreneurial initiatives, community service, job shadowing…etc.
- Teacher: Faris Ghassan
- Teacher: waseem nabulsi
PHPD - Trimester 1 2024
The Palestinian History & Diplomacy course explores the Modern History of Palestine through a learning journey explains the historical events that shaped the present circumstances of the Palestinian people. This course helps the learners debate and articulately represent the Palestinian perspective using facts and critical approach.
The course consists of 11 chapters covering the history of Palestine since the 19th century until the present day using interactive methods to enhance the learning process and make it fun!
- Teacher: Yasmen Zeidan
Creative Writing - Trimester 3- 2024
The creative writing course is designed to help students develop their skills in writing academic essays, summaries, and other short pieces. Through engaging with diverse texts and creative writing exercises, students will explore various genres and learn to think critically and creatively. The course emphasizes four key areas: understanding texts, responding to texts, critiquing texts, and producing original work. By the end of the course, students will be able to write clear and coherent essays, use literary conventions and writing techniques effectively, and critique their own and others' work with insightful recommendations.
Social Initiative, Leadership and Entrepreneurship - Summer School Grade 8
In this course, you will explore how the community's challenges foster a sense of responsibility and drive active engagement in creating a lasting social impact. You will also learn how social entrepreneurship equips individuals with the necessary tools and mindset to create inventive solutions for social challenges within their community. Additionally, you will gain insights into the role of clear expression and active listening in allowing for conveying messages clearly.
- Teacher: Nadia abulatif
GL session - 9th Grade
The Group Leading Sessions for 9th graders are thoughtfully structured into ten impactful sessions, each addressing essential and critical topics tailored to this pivotal stage of their development. These sessions serve as a foundational pillar in the students' journey at Horizons Academy, with the following core objectives:
Ensure all students align with the Academy’s core values, vision, and mission.
Help students build self-awareness, emotional intelligence, and resilience to handle academic and personal challenges.
Encourage students to think critically about career choices, time management, and problem-solving through debates and design thinking.
Teach students to express their ideas clearly and confidently in interviews, debates, and presentations.
Foster collaboration, empathy, and understanding of social issues like bullying, encouraging positive contributions to their community.
Provide practical skills for scholarships, money management, and career planning to set students up for academic and professional success.
Guide students in discovering their passions and aligning them with their goals for meaningful personal development.
- Teacher: Fadi Harara
Tech-Talent
Tech-Talent is an annual scientific entrepreneurial challenge. It targets students in grades 9-11
across all schools. Students team up with their teachers to put together enterpeneureal projects
in STEM. Every year thousands of students apply to Tech-Talent, and only a handful are
chosen to compete in the final challenge. Leading up to the final challenge, participants and
their ideas are incubated. They receive training and mentoring from experts in the relevant
fields. The final challenge takes place in June with hundreds of school children and their
teachers, in both the West Bank and Gaza, in attendance. The judging panel is composed of
local and international STEM and entrepreneurial experts. And in a suspenseful energetic
atmosphere, the winners are announced.
The winners are sent on a scientific trip to NASA, the Smithsonian and other leading scientific
institutions in the United States. During the trip they meet with scientists and engineers who are
at the front line of scientific and technological innovation. They share their ideas, and get a
chance to ask questions to the experts as well. The trip is as scientific as it is cultural, with visits
to key landmarks in the United States.