Challenges Addressed by Makarem Curriculum
Identity Challenges
- Waves of Westernization affecting identity and societal values.
- Fragility of the generation and its value system.
- Family disintegration and gender-related challenges.
Cultural Challenges
- Dominance of the digital age over humanization.
- Information overload and abundance in an unregulated manner.
- Lack of pride among youth in cultural heritage and societal legacy.
- Striving to achieve a balance between authenticity and modernity.
Scientific Features
- A solid value framework comprising 8 governing values and 63 subsidiary values.
- Offering diverse learning strategies (cooperative learning, problem-solving, play-based learning, storytelling, brainstorming, concept mapping, analysis, etc.) that make the student the center of the learning process and a direct partner in knowledge creation.
- 100 modern skills that meet the needs of the 21st century.
- 6 detailed instructional guides for preparation and planning, providing methodological support for teachers.
- Incorporating diverse role models from various fields (sports, arts, scientists, history) to serve as a source of inspiration for students in embodying values.
- Students embark on a growth journey with the main characters of Makarem (Reem and Ammar), which includes personal life experiences tailored for each stage of the nine-year age range.
Educational Competitive Features
- The curriculum considers the developmental characteristics of age stages and gender identity
- Comprehensive educational tools cater to the diversity of learning environments without the need for external tools
- Curriculum construction based on realistic assessment to ensure integration of activities with real-life situations
- Adoption of a practical project-based system instead of a pass/fail system
- Adoption of assessment tools for measuring impact, levels of representation, and response to values
- Enhancement of the family's role in instilling values and promoting community participation
Operational Features of Makarem Curriculum
- Global reach, implemented and accredited in 20 Arab and foreign countries.
- Flexible and customizable, adaptable to local and international educational systems across different learning environments.
- Consideration of diversity in presenting curriculum heroes according to different cultures and environments.
- Available in both English and Arabic and translatable into other languages
- Electronically prepared in a format integrable with digital platforms (governmental or private).
Gamification
- The incentive system in the "Makarem" curriculum aims to enhance student engagement and motivation by integrating gamification into the curriculum, encouraging active participation.
- The system relies on psychological principles to generate sustainable internal motivation in students.
- The gamification goals include increasing engagement, promoting active learning, and encouraging collaboration and competition through group challenges, effectively fostering the adoption of "Makarem" values by students in a positive and impactful way, making these values an integral part of their daily interactions.
Entertainment Video Game
- MAK ISLAND Game is part of a series of entertaining and purposeful games developed by Mishkat Company. It aims to increase students' exposure to values in an engaging, enjoyable, and interactive way.
- The game is designed to promote children's acquisition of moral and social values, such as respect and cooperation, which are part of the "Makarem" values matrix, away from the traditional school environment.
- The game provides an experience full of excitement, fun, and entertainment, helping children absorb values in an attractive and engaging way, making them a part of their daily interactions and enhancing their positive impact.
Frequently Asked Questions and Answers
Values are an integrated system that forms the compass of each one of us to help us in our choices in professional and social life and form criteria for judging things as good or bad and situations as acceptable or rejected. Each one of us builds and organizes his life according to his own value system in one way or another, in a way he feels or in a spontaneous way without direct effort. The real challenge regarding the private and public value system lies in working to build it in a systematic and sound way that helps the individual or society to reach its goal and makes its path clear and its goals clearly marked.
- The governing value system that establishes the curriculum according to a systematic progression and hierarchical structure that keeps pace with the mental, emotional and motor development of students.
- Adopting the evaluation process based on the system of projects and practical value-based assignments and innovating modern evaluation methods in preparation, presentation and projects.
- Training the student on different thinking skills, reflective learning skills, and research skills in a manner appropriate to each age group.
- Employing multiple intelligences, solving problems, and enhancing the curriculum with attractive, imaginative, and thought-provoking educational exercises and games.
- Strengthening the tools of inculcating the curriculum through the active participation of parents in community initiatives and homework.
Makarem curriculum is available in Arabic and English, and is being translated into French.
It is possible to start with the student at the stage he is in, because the values of the Makarem curriculum are not based on the cumulative structure of cognitive experience, but rather are built on an integrated structural foundation with a vertical level.
Makarem curriculum is flexible and applicable in various educational settings. It requires one class per week from the school schedule, with a total of 28 class periods for the academic year.
The structural composition of the matrix is based on 8 governing values that were chosen by specialists according to long studies, and were chosen by studying the needs of most environments.
Yes, as the Makarem curriculum enhances life skills according to the 21st century skills classification and provides tools for measuring those skills, and the skills are used within the Makarem curriculum.
Mishkat Company offers an integrated training program (Integrating Values into Daily Educational Activities). The program aims to enhance the integration of values into all daily teaching processes and the integration of values with educational resources.
Makarem curriculum is keen to enhance the role of parents in acquiring values through weekly cards that encourage strengthening family dialogue and transforming values into a practical reality at home.
Yes, ongoing teacher training is an important part of Mishkat’s strategy. The company offers teachers the opportunity to update and develop their skills in guiding students and understanding the Makarem curriculum, starting with the Makarem Ambassador Diploma that qualifies teachers to deal with the curriculum. The company also organizes periodic coaching sessions that focus on updating teachers and seeking to improve their capabilities. In addition, periodic workshops are held on topics of interest to teachers. Mishkat encourages teachers to exchange experiences and ideas with each other through a virtual communication group (the Makarem Ambassadors Community).