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Grades 10 to 12 Advanced
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Contents
1 2 3 Introduction Outline of the units for each grade Units of work: Grades 10 to 12 Advanced
Grade 10 Advanced Grade 11 Advanced Grade 12 Advanced
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Conventions used
The spelling, pronunciation and other stylistic conventions used in the scheme of work are based on standard British English.
1 Introduction
This introductory section is intended to give some guidance about how schools might use the scheme of work. Decisions about how best to teach the curriculum standards are left to schools. Each school can develop its own policies for lesson planning, teaching and learning, and assessment, so that as many students as possible achieve the standards expected for their grade. There is no requirement for Independent Schools to use the scheme of work. Schools may use as little or as much of it as they find helpful, supplementing the materials or adapting them where appropriate to meet their students needs and the teaching time that they have available.
The scheme shows how the units can be distributed within each grade and across grades in a sequence that promotes continuity and progression in students learning. The units then act as a guide to teachers when they create their lesson plans.
A scheme of work
The cycle of planning, teaching and assessment is a continuous one. Good teaching is based on good planning, and good planning is informed by effective assessment.
Planning
Assessment
Teaching
emphasise or expand particular parts of the scheme; vary contexts, resources or activities to take account of the different interests of boys and girls; add to one or more units some objectives based on standards for a higher grade in order to give students opportunities to progress more rapidly; identify the essential supporting standards that need to be taught before the grade-specific standards;
Education Institute 2005
The Qatar scheme of work for Grades 1 to 12 is a long-term plan to help schools to achieve the aims for English, stated in the Introduction to the standards. It interprets the new curriculum standards and translates them into coherent, manageable teaching units, typically 6 to 10 hours of work.
give students more time for particular aspects of the scheme, or opportunities to revisit knowledge and skills in different contexts; adapt activities to provide greater support for students with learning difficulties, or for those with a first language other than Arabic.
120 hours
In the diagram above, each of the 13 units is defined as a topic to provide context and relevance for the language teaching. The topics are designed to be taught in sequence and the standards are grouped and recycled within each topic to ensure systematic coverage. The diagram illustrates only one way of grouping the standards and ordering the teaching units for Grade 11A. Schools can decide: to use this model in full; not to use the model; to customise individual units, change or topics.
The flow of the units reflects continuity and progression in students learning throughout the school year. The sequence provides one or more opportunities to revisit particular standards or groups of standards throughout the course of the year. This gives students the chance to consolidate their learning in a range of contexts and to make connections between different aspects of the subject. The example above right shows how units of work in English are organised and sequenced in the scheme of work for Grade 11 Advanced.