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A leadership curriculum that will make Nations
graduates the preferred candidates for admission to
the world’s most selective colleges and universities, and
prepare a generation of young people who will bring
about a more sustainable and peaceful world.
Student Leadership
GEMS schools understand that some are born to lead and others develop
that capacity over time.
Leadership opportunities of all sorts—in art, drama, public speaking, and
sports—are peppered throughout our schools so that students of all ages
and stages can engage, learn and build their leadership capacity.
At GEMS Nations Academy we will offer a broad range of elective
studies for older students and will feature leadership development and
entrepreneurial training as well.
The Student Experience
Leadership Roles
Students at GEMS Nations Academy are encouraged to assume leadership
roles. This may be in group scenarios within or beyond the classroom or
across whole school or GEMS settings. Opportunities will be presented
whereby students can learn what effective leadership means and how
values and behaviors define styles of leadership.
Coaching and Mentorship
Nations Academy provides mentorship opportunities with leaders of
industry philanthropy and government. Both local and world-renowned
leaders will collaborate with Nations students. Visiting leaders will
be encouraged to act as role models for our students and share their
knowledge, skills and expertise in order to both enlighten and inspire our
students to achieve in school and at their future places of work.
Debate
Nations students will have opportunities to develop the skills of debate and
to practice the strategies of advocacy and logical reasoning. The power
of debate will not only enhance speaking and listening skills but empower
greater self-confidence and self-esteem in our students.
Public Speaking and Presentation Skills
The use of resources, together with highly developed
language proficiency to effectively communicate, are
essential for success in a modern world. The integration
of technology into student learning and communication,
where used appropriately, are powerful aids to effectively
deliver concepts, persuade or convey information.
International Studies
The social, cultural, economic and environmental
awareness of countries of abode, origin and beyond
are ways of fostering respect, care, concern, and
empathy for others. As such, an international
perspective and the cultivation of global
awareness will be a distinctive dimension of the
Nations Academy program.
Enterprise
Innovation and enterprise are embedded
within our curricula.
Talent and creativity will be harnessed
to support entrepreneurial activities at
GEMS Nations Academy.
Mentorship programs
offering leadership
guidance with leaders of
industry, philanthropy and
government
Student Engagement
at GEMS Nations Academy
Every child entering GEMS Nations Academy will have a personalized
learning experience. The individual needs of each student will be identified
and appropriate experiences will be sought to support both the academic
and social outcomes.
The Student Experience
Digital Technologies:
Harnessing imagination through our partnership with
LEGO© Education
Our LEGO© Education program will offer LEGO© Robotics at every
grade level for all students, with an emphasis on a learning progression in
computer coding from simple control routines to sophisticated programming
structures for real-world problem-solving.
The program will provide a range of resources that enable our educators
to deliver projects and lessons focused on the STEM subjects (science,
technology, engineering and mathematics) that are important for so many
careers in today’s rapidly advancing world. With a broad base of study
modules aimed at assisting Elementary through to High School, Nations
Academy will prepare our students with the 21st century skill-set to
become the leaders and problem-solvers of the future.
Design & Innovation
Our emphasis on design will be manifest in makerspaces that will inspire a
shift from thinking like a consumer to thinking like a producer. Developing
the innovative mindset, we will provide time and space for students to
make, hack, tweak, explore, and invent, in classrooms, labs, and purpose-
built studios.
Emphasis on a learning progression in computer coding, our ‘third
language’, from simple control routines to sophisticated programming
structures for real-world problem-solving
Blended Learning
Technology will be deployed to support both personalized and self-directed
learning. Students will have access to learning content and online teaching
assistance in and out of school to support their learning.
Language Program
Arabic will be our second language. We will offer engaging and modern
teaching of Arabic to all students, tailoring the program to challenge those
for whom Arabic is a first or second language. We will endeavor to provide
mother tongue support for all students.
Nations students will be introduced to the challenges and opportunities
of our world so that they become increasingly internationally-minded,
accept their responsibilities as global citizens and environmental stewards
and develop a predisposition toward action. GEMS students celebrate
the similarities among people of the world while developing deeper
understandings of our differences. With understanding comes acceptance
of diversity - the key to international mindedness and a more positive
world view.
The Student Experience
Beyond the Campus
“School without walls” will be short courses offering the experience of
local geographical and environmental issues. These will extend learning
beyond the classroom setting so that students can gain first-hand and
immediate experience of the issues that require application of theoretical
learning in a real-world context.
Outward Bound Trips
Students learn to collaborate, problem-solve and think creatively in an
outdoor setting. They also challenge their own physical fitness and powers
of mental agility to cope with the demands and rigours of outward bound
learning.
International Travel & Expedition
To expand students’ global awareness, GEMS Nations Academy will
offer travel adventures to England, France, China, Italy, India, Singapore,
Switzerland, the United States and more, and these will go beyond the
hotel and the tour bus to engage with local culture and local concerns.
Personalized
& Enhanced Learning
Global Citizenship