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2006 Progress Report Comprehensive development project for 10 Jerusalem
schools The comprehensive school development project for the year 2006 / 2007 is meant to develop 10 schools in occupied Jerusalem. These schools are located in various parts of the city: Wad Al- Joz, Sheikh Jarrah, Old City and Al Mukkaber areas. The project aims at developing the various aspects of the educational process including educational and administrative training, developing infrastructure, renovating schools structures and establishing scientific and computer labs and libraries. The process has started by establishing an educational vision for every school which is designed by the administration, the teachers, the students and the parents. Depending on the proposed vision, plans are also designed in order to raise the standard of the educational process and raise the level of education among students. This project highlights the significance of extra-curricular education that seeks to integrate extra-curricular classes in schools in order to develop the physical and emotional aspects of the students to help them attain a balanced human entity, capable of preserving the national identity and capable of coping with the current times.
Firstly: The Aspect of Developing the
Infrastructure in 8 schools 1- A Shabat Al Muslimat School The school is situated in the Wadi Al Joz neighbourhood in Jerusalem and serves 436 female students (grades 10-12). The renovation costs have reached 31, 000 Euros and included the following: |
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 A new science lab in the school |
2- Al Fata'al Lajia'School (A) The school is situated in the Wadi al Joz neighbourhood in Jerusalem and serves 342 female (7-10 grades). The renovation costs have reached 27, 000 Euros and included the following:
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3- Al Fata'al Lajia' School (D) The school is situated in the Shu’fat neighbourhood in Jerusalem
and serves 263 students from grade 1 to grade 10 (the school is mixed
in the first, second and grades 1,2 and 3, and limited to females at
grades 4-10).
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4- The Anahda school (A) The school is situated in the Old City of Jerusalem and serves 312 female students from the 5th to the 10th grade. The costs of renovation reached 10, 000 Euros that included the following:
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5 - Anahda school (B): The school is situated in the Old City of Jerusalem and serves 89 students from the 1st to the 4th grade. The costs of renovation reached 12, 000 Euros that included the following:
6- Dar Al Aytam school (D): The school is situated in the Wadi Al- Joz neighbourhood and serves 214 mail students from the 5th to the 9th grade. The costs of renovation reached 49, 000 Euros that included the following: |
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It is worthwhile mentioning here that the school has been provided with a fully equipped computer lab in the beginning of 2006 funded by the Qatari committee in support of Jerusalem. |
 A new computer lab |
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7- Dar al Aytam school (C ): The school is situated in the Asheikh Jarrah neighbourhood and serves 192 mail students from the 1st to the 4th grade. Work in this school has been completed in two stages. The costs of renovation during 2005 are estimated at 36,667 Euros that was donated by the Qatari committee in support of Jerusalem in addition to donations made by Ms. Su’ad al Husseini. This stage included the internal renovation of the ground floor and included the changing of tiles and the renovation of the walls in addition to painting and the removal of the temporary wall in one of the rooms to accommodate it into use of a classroom. The exterior staircase and the entrance shade were also renovated. |
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The costs of renovation for the year 2006 reached 23, 000 Euros donated
by the PMSP / the Italian Government and included the following:
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 renovation works for the school's building |
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8- Al Fata Al Shamilah School: The school is situated in the Wad Il Joz neighbourhood and serves 378 students. The school was provided with library furniture including shelves, tables and chairs. The costs reached 3500 Euros.
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Secondly: Development of School Visions Samir Jibril: “this is the first time that I find teachers and principals think seriously about developing their own schools … the one thousand mile path starts with the first step… “ Our first step to develop schools is to work on the development of a unified language among the entire administrative and educational cadre in all schools. During the first few months of 2006,each of the 10 schools was assisted to develop its own educational vision with the participation of the educational and administrative cadre, the parents and the students whereby a number of detailed goals and plans were set up for school. This step was established on the basis of studies that were conducted by educational teams in their schools – these studies included the level of education received by the students in every subject. A “SWOT” analysis was also conducted for every school followed by a crystallization of a set of visions for ten schools that were presented and discussed to further explore their development before the phase of implementation. Two presentation sessions of the visions were conducted at the YWCA and was attended by representatives from the Italian Consulate, the municipal fund, the directorate of the education ands a number of supervisors. The sessions were opened by the Faisal Husseini’s Board Director, Mr Mohammad Abdil Qader, who expressed gratitude for the Italian Government and the PMSP for their ceaseless support and he also thanked the schools and the students for their efforts and contribution to develop a school vision. It is worthy mentioning here the statements made by Dr. Ghanem Ya’ coubi, consultant of the Faisal Husseini Foundation, in which he highlighted the importance of attaining the target and achieve results focusing on the process of creativity in the educational process and the need for overcoming the impediments indicating that the curriculum is not an impediment for creativity and calling on teachers to contact consultants to overcome any problem that may face them. He also affirmed the need for inserting entertainment in education and go beyond the banal. It was also interesting what was said by Samir Jibril, Director of Education in Jerusalem, who also expressed his opinion about participating in the project by saying “This is the first time that I find teachers and principals thinking seriously about developing their schools with enthusiasm – these are the first steps towards developing schools with the need to cling on to the first step in order to complete the one thousand mile path that starts with the first step” School visions that came up in the results of a joint work school effort: |
Vision of the Anahda (A) school: Our vision is to hold a unique, bright name that
spreads all around Jerusalem City; this school is one of the ideal schools
that focus on capacity building, which includes students with high academic
level and behaviour.
Real cooperation between the families and the school staff to improve their academic, social level that enables every parent to register a place for his student after convincing him/her about the importance of learning and their cooperation with the school administrator to make the learning process much easier, much effective to work together step by step to reach the high education Vision of the Anahda (B) school: To succeed in transferring our educational message despite the difficult surrounding conditions… our school will become a symbol and an address for belonging, giving and steadfastness to confront what is imposed on us including the challenges and the difficult political, cultural, material and social conditions. Vision of the al Fata al Laji’ a school (A): The ability to plan the future with a high degree of intelligence and imagination to make the school perfect and establish a scout, sports cultural centre that can serve students, teachers and the Jerusalmite community. Vision of the al Fata al Laji’ a school (D): My dream is to make my school like a ship that can take us and our students hand in hand to a safe haven – a school that is able to administer itself in order to create a creative generation that can hold on to its high value system and culture and able to achieve what the community aspires to including a real sense of belonging to the homeland and the nation. Vision of Al Aytam school (C): We want to become the first school in terms of results and creativity and linkage to the parents. Vision of Al Aytam school (D): Towards the establishment of a developed school that can provide all academic and extra curricular activities so that it can become the second home for students.
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Mohammad Abdil Qader Al Husseini addressing teachers during the school
visions seminar in Jerusalem
 A teacher from al Mukabber
School during the school visions seminar
 A number of attendants
during the seminar
 A number of attendants
during the seminar |
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Vision of Al Fata Al Shamila school: Our school is a bee hive: group work / work borders: educational / work characteristic: serious and organized: goals and objectives: clear and specific / roles: clear and declared / results: good and collective Vision of Al Shabat Al Muslimat school: To encourage life long learning and more self sufficient individuals possessing positive self-esteem, respect for themselves, others and their environment, through commitment of staff, parents, students and the whole community. Vision of Arawda modern school: A school that is capable to communicate with the local and international community - a school that believes in the importance of cultural exchange and be able to open to the achievements of various civilizations on condition of clinging to religious and national fundamentals – a school that works incessantly to establish and strengthen the value system and the positive trends among individuals and dedicate the various experiences in order to cater for and underline students’ creativity- a school that is able to graduate generations that carry a glorious message and that can buy times in Jerusalem. Vision of Jabal Al Mukabber: Towards the establishment of a model school by the year 2010. |
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Thirdly: Small and Urgent Projects in the Education Sector The “small and urgent project” program serves schools with urgent needs by providing renovation, equipment or school supplies. The funds of this program for the year 2006 were raised from a charitable fundraising dinner that was conducted at the Ambassador Hotel in Jerusalem on 12 May of this year. The event was attended by Dr. Abdil Malek Jaber, the Executive Director of Paltel who was the main sponsor of the event in addition to a number of Jerusalem personalities. These projects have incorporated the following:
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“The play …learn and be creative” project This project is a joint effort between FHF and the
Anaizak for extra curricular education. The project started by training
three teams of teachers from three Jerusalem schools: Al Fata Al Laji’a
secondary school (B), Anithamieh School and the Islamic Dar Al Aitam
school (A).\The project was aimed at equipping science teachers with
new methods and styles to teach in a modern and creative manner. A number
of sessions were conducted for the teachers in various fields including
sciences, technology and creative thinking. The sessions were moderated
by the Director of the Anaizak organization, Mr A’ ref Al Husseini.
The meetings also included applied experiments for science lessons as
shown in Photo 1. |
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