Curriculum
The internationally accredited, differentiated curriculum offered at the Harvard American School is aligned to the Common Core standards in English and mathematics and Next Generation Standards in science and social studies .
The curriculum is predicated on a student-centered approach for developing the whole child. The developmental pathways are psychological, emotional, academic, technical, and human values based driven.
The curriculum alignment enables the instructional staff to facilitate a spiral approach to instructional delivery and an integration of ICT skills through our technology applications course to further the integration of real-life experiences related to the practical use of technology for our students. Additionally, our students will be exposed to the Harvard social development program through physical education, art, dancing, music, and theatre to meet the needs of a culturally diverse child. Finally, we have provided a connection to the cultural identity and values of Qatar through our Qatar history, Islamic studies and Arabic courses, and student involvement in community activities, celebrations, and community partnerships.
Our school curriculum is based on the American curriculum and uses
- The Common Core State Standards in both mathematics and English
English Language Arts Standards.
Mathematics Standard. - Next-generation standards in science.
- The New York state next-generation standards for social studies.
- The key point of the curriculum is that students are at the center of the educational process, they are the ones to discover and learn by natural curiosity, with the participation of their classmates. The curriculum also relies on various activities and exercises during the learning process, and these activities extend to different types of sensitivity in students: audio, visual, emotional, artistic…this allows each student to participate and assimilate according to their abilities and skills.
- Students will participate (according to the required age) in all of the MOE completions like scientific research, famelab competition, reading Olympics, Qatar debate competition.
- Students will start mental math from KG classes since this will enhance children’s ability to concentrate, improve the self-confidence of the child, help children to reduce mistakes in problem-solving, and of course, It stimulates both sides of the brain.
- Internal practice for international tests will be offered to students, SAT and IELTS preparation practice will start in grade 8 preparing students to nail their desired score by grade 11, in addition to external MAP test.
- Main student resources will be McGraw-Hill, Pearson Education, scholastic and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt publishers.
- All of our students’ textbooks come with online log-in, it Gives the students access to their textbook wherever they are, whenever they want, offers them more interaction with the materials, more videos to watch , helps the students to achieve better grades.