MUSTAFA ASIM CULA ORTAOKULU is a state school founded in

1988 caters for 10 to 14 year old students in a compulsory

secondary education situated in the central

residential part of Antalya province which is in the south of

the  Mediterranean coastline. Antalya, the Turkish Riviera is

the most stunning part of Turkey’s Mediterranean coast.

Antalya has a backdrop of stunning mountain scenery,

and the city is set high on cliffs, with many of its grandest

hotels overlooking the sea on the outskirts of the town.

The beach area of Lara, Konyaaltı, Aspendos (an important center

of trade during Roman times), Phaselis, Perge, Demre are the most

popular historical and natural beauty sites of Antalya region.  
 

The school is  small but very active with 60 teachers and 650 students . Our aim is to promote students’ awareness of their social and national responsibility for upholding a democratic, secular republic to empower their learning by encouraging intellectual exploration in the light of their uncovered individual interests and abilities. Our aim is to enable our students to stay in touch with current thinking and latest educational development. Students will, therefore, acquire at least one foreign language and gain respect for the environment and awareness of the importance of their physical well being.
 Our school offers a compulsory state education curriculum including subjects such as Science, Mathematics, Turkish, English,ICT, Art, Music,Drama,Religion and Morals and PE. They will recognize the value of sports, music, and fine arts; have an international and intercultural perception of life;  adopt universal values as they develop their qualifications academically for success in higher education and further.  

 

Students have a diverse cultural and educational background due to an allocation of different nationalities, ethnic minorities, different cultures, in the area. We organised activities and special events to provide students with a maximum of cultural knowledge. It has done a lot in order to integrate students with different backgrounds into  education e.g. mentor arrangements, flexible training models, cooperation with other schools, parents, enterprises and social partners. Further, the school has carried out comprehensive competence development of teachers and managers. 30% of our students are from a disadvantaged socio-economic background when compared with the average standard in the town centre. 

 

MAC School has 26 students with mental deficiences light weight and 4  students with medium .For them our school provides educational service,therapy with 4 support teachers and 4 specialists in educational services.Our school has a facility designed for pupils with physical disabilities,including aphasia,authism,Asperger sendrome with intellectual disabilities and multiple disabilities.Our Sen students are between 11-15 ages.Moreover there are students with special neds whom so far we have succesfully integrated in ordinary classes.To help SEN Students to be actively included in school life they are in mixed ability classes and most of them follow 'Individual Education Programmes ' to faciliate their inclusion and to develop their self esteem.

 

The SEN students are actively included  school life and put into support groups where their special needs are catered for. Families contribute actively to the running of the school by means of the Parents’ Association . It also has the support of the local authorities in the town hall and regular contact with the social and cultural non-profit organizations .  
 

MUSTAFA ASIM CULA ORTAOKULU school has strong partnerships with neighbouring schools. We have taken part in important championships on art and  sports like chess,table tennis activities held in our province.  Administrators, teachers, students, families and communities in cooperation with local authorities will reveal development in  the objectives and strategies and also win the necessary knowledge and skills to achieve this goal. They have been  working together at our school, we will give a new shape to   the future of our school with this project. 

 

Our school is an educational trust, aims to develop productive, creative and responsible attitudes in individuals while working in national and international contexts, aiming to make positive contributions to both the country and the world's future, and giving priority to scientific thought defines MACSS (Mustafa Asım Cula Secondary School) as a foundation apart.

 

The students of the school have a diverse cultural and educational background due to an allocation of different nationalities, ethnic minorities, different cultures, in Antalya. We organised activities and special events to provide students with a maximum of cultural knowledge. It has done a lot in order to integrate students with different backgrounds into  education e.g. mentor arrangements, flexible training models, cooperation with other schools, parents, enterprises and social partners. Further, the school has carried out comprehensive competence development of teachers and managers. Our school has special courses in History of Arts that include the teaching of Music, Arts, History, English. Teachers in all these subjects work on a common theme and students are taught a variety of cultural facts which are part of our world's common heritage. 

 

At our school we teach our own culture and foreign cultures to the  students as included in the curriculum. Teachers are keen to be involved in European projects at other schools and contribute to raise  cultural competence, cultural awareness,cultural knowledge and improve students' skills. The persistence in knowledge is possible if it is combined with experience.  The school has never participated in European projects  but we are all very enthusiastic to get involve in multilateral cooperation. 
 

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