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Collaborative for Liberal Education for Adolescents (CLEA) Project at AQB
 
WHAT IS CLEA?
 
Collaborative for Liberal Education for Adolescents (CLEA), a program that is an outcome of a partnership between Al-Quds Bard College and Bard Early College (BEC)  offers semester-long seminars in different Palestinian schools. CLEA   provides highly motivated high school students with an intellectually engaging and genuinely collegiate academic program. Moreover, the program offers early college courses replacing the traditional high school with a tuition-free liberal arts education.

CLEA  offers semester-long seminars,  at no cost to students and their families, in eight schools from different Palestinian cities. The seminar is key to building the foundational skills that students need in college and life.

The seminar is conducted on Saturdays for 3 hours completing a total of roughly 32 hours. Each class will consist of an average of 15 students. The seminars are conducted in both languages: Arabic and English.
 
OBJECTIVES
  • The seminar will help students to develop their capacity for critical thinking and analytical skills.
  • The instructor will help students become independent thinkers and learners allowing them to read, write, discuss, and express their ideas orally and in writing.
  • The Program will also prepare students for their careers and readies them for lifelong learning.
 
 (Source: AQB College at Halhul School)
 
STUDENTS DEVELOP THE FOLLOWING INTELLECTUAL AND PROFESSIONAL SKILLS:
  1. Express thoughts, write and think both critically and creatively
  2. Challenge themselves and other forms of authority when dealing with texts or new ideas (e.g. challenging the author).
  3. Explore and organize their own thinking by analyzing certain texts or themes.
  4. Discover and express their own voice as a writer and speaker.
  5. Find and make connections between texts, themes, concepts, etc.
  6. Develop habits of thoughtful reading and discussion of texts
  7. Express thinking with confidence and respect other perspectives and thinking
  8. Develop a different orientation toward the culture of learning 

WHAT DO WE TEACH AT CLEA?

The main theme of our current course delves into the normal and the new normal as a response to the impact of COVID-19 on different perspectives of life. The course will help students question the ‘normal’ and what does it mean to them? What is the "new '' normal? and why? Who decides what is normal and what is not? Can normal be changed? What does normal mean to you? Translate. Students will reflect on the normal and the new normal by reading a variety of texts under several categories ranging from Home/Exile, Value, Science, Truth/ Mystery, and Culture.

PHOTOS OF THE SEMINARS THAT ARE CONDUCTED EVERY WEEK IN THE EIGHT PARTICIPATING SCHOOLS

STUDENTS GATHERING FOR CLEA SCHOOLS

The objectives of this gathering were to bring together students and engage them collaboratively in close reading of texts and exchange ideas. The students were mixed and distributed into seminar groups giving them the opportunity to meet and get to know each other.

01 Abu-Shkhadem High School for Girls: is a public school located in the northeast of Silwad village in Ramallah.

02 Palestine Secondary School: is a public school located in north Hebron, in Halhul

03 Atara Secondary Girls: is a public school located in Atara village north Ramallah.

04 Bir Nabala school for Girls: is a public school located in northeast Jerusalem.

05 Marah Rabah for Boys: is a public school located in south Bethlehem, Marah Rabah Village.

06 Arab Academy for Modern Education: is a private school located in Ramallah, Swilad.

07 Arroub School for Girls: is a public school located in North Hebron in a refugee camp, Arroub camp.

08 Dar Al-Kalmeh School: is a private school located in Bethlehem.

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On 26th March 2022, AQB organized a handover ceremony of certificates to the students who participated in the Collaborative for Liberal Education for Adolescent...

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