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Based on our awareness at Mawhiba of the importance of the school environment, as one of the basic components of the concept of creativity and talent, we launched the “Mawhiba Classes” program in the academic year 2009/2010, in cooperation with a number of government and private schools in the Kingdom, where the schools were selected according to precise specifications, in terms of infrastructure, teaching methods, evaluation methods, learning methods, and teacher qualification.

 

Talent chapters

The “Mawhiba Classes” program is implemented in cooperation with the most important educational and teaching expertise houses.

To provide gifted students* in the educational stages from the fourth grade of primary school to the third grade of secondary school, with an additional advanced curricula, approved globally, in addition to the curricula approved by the Ministry of Education.

* Enrollment in Mawhiba classes is exclusive to students registered in the National Program for Discovering Gifted Students . 

 Program axes

 Choosing schools

This axis revolves around developing appropriate methods, standards and tools to select distinguished schools (government and private) that meet the specifications for partnership with Mawhiba, and applying these standards to schools wishing to join the Mawhiba Classes Program according to the various evaluation mechanisms and stages, and then preparing recommendations for selecting schools that meet the criteria for joining the program, in addition to selecting local evaluators to select schools and training them to use Mawhiba’s methods and standards in selecting schools, developing tools and mechanisms to improve the performance of participating schools, as well as coordinating professional development and training work for members of the partnership schools with the training axis.

 

Training and professional development

The training axis aims to enlighten the target groups on the subject of talent and creativity, the characteristics of gifted students, and how to deal with them, and to provide a rich educational environment that nurtures the gifted in classes, schools, and the community to which they belong. It also aims to provide teachers with strategies for dealing with the Mawhiba curricula and integrating them into the curricula of the Ministry of Education, and to deepen the understanding of teachers of gifted students in particular of the activities of the Mawhiba curricula, as the training covers school coordinators and principals, teachers, and parents.

 

Curricula

This axis aims to follow up on the implementation of advanced additional curricula in science and mathematics subjects. These books consist of many advanced activities that will be an alternative to the Ministry’s curricula, not a substitute for them. These curricula will focus on developing several aspects of the gifted student’s personality, such as knowledge and advanced understanding of the concepts and topics presented by enriching his knowledge with modern and in-depth information. This is represented by advanced skills specific to the academic subjects, such as knowledge of major ideas, clarity of concepts, depth of cognitive structures related to the academic subjects, and the development of values, attitudes and traits such as investigation, risk-taking, creativity, confidence, open-mindedness, cooperation, and skills in their various aspects such as generalization, reasoning, thinking skills, self-reflection, communication and dialogue.

 

Calendar

The evaluation axis aims to follow up and monitor the success of the Mawhiba Classes program, root the culture of student-centered learning and evaluation for learning and not just in learning, and work on preparing training programs targeting all program teachers that address different forms of evaluation such as authentic evaluation, performance evaluation, peer evaluation, self-evaluation, evaluation through projects, and the student’s achievement file.

To achieve the above, the end-of-year test was applied to Mawhiba students in mathematics and science from the advanced Mawhiba additional curricula starting from the 2011-2012 academic year, where the focus was on the system of standards that Mawhiba curricula seek to achieve regarding the level of performance of gifted students in partnership schools and to help measure the degree of their progress later.   

 

Parent support

The Parent Support Axis aims to integrate parents into the educational process of their sons and daughters, by holding meetings that include introducing Mawhiba curricula and assessment methods, introducing them to their role in the educational process, and supporting the program’s activities in communicating with parents. 

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Program start date

The start date of the program will be determined in accordance with the new academic calendar after it is announced by the Ministry of Education. 

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Program end date 

The end date of the program will be determined in accordance with the new academic calendar after it is announced by the Ministry of Education.