TED Üsküdar College applies comprehensive assessment policies to monitor students’ academic progress and support learning. Readiness, monitoring and placement exams are held at various stages. For example, readiness exams at the start of the year identify the knowledge and skills students bring from previous grades, pinpoint gaps and inform the planning of catch-up work.
The school also guides teachers in alternative assessment tools, helping them assess students’ knowledge, skills and behaviours more fully. Methods such as projects, performance tasks and portfolios support the development of higher-order skills like critical thinking, problem solving and creativity.
Alongside the monitoring exams prepared and administered by the TED Headquarters Assessment Directorate, assessment work using additional publications is also planned.
The ODEP (Middle School Support Programme) for Grade 8 was developed to ensure consistent academic standards across the institution and base the quality of education on measurable data. ODEP exams and extra work measure not only knowledge but also analytical thinking, problem solving and interpretation. As part of LGS preparation, our Grade 8 students take preparation and support sessions on Saturdays.
Turkish
At TED Üsküdar College, our main aims in Turkish lessons are:
- to enable students to use their mother tongue consciously, correctly and effectively,
- to give students the ability to fully and accurately understand and express what they see, watch, hear and read,
- to develop students' reading, comprehension, writing, listening and speaking skills,
- to educate individuals who use grammar correctly and have a rich vocabulary,
- to make reading part of students' culture,
- to guide students to become well-rounded individuals with a high intellectual level by getting to know writers, poets and works of Turkish and world literature.
To this end, Turkish lessons at TED Üsküdar College include poetry recitals, story and poetry competitions, creative writing and meetings with authors, so that students reinforce what they learn and show their creativity and talent in language and literature. The school library is actively used to build a reading culture.
Mathematics
At TED Üsküdar College, our main aims in mathematics lessons are:
- to help students develop a positive attitude towards mathematics,
- to make them mathematically literate by developing analytical thinking, problem solving and reasoning skills,
- to ensure meaningful and lasting learning by relating mathematics to daily life,
- to build strong preparation for national and international exams through innovative and interdisciplinary programmes,
- to use teaching methods suited to individual learning pace and different types of intelligence,
- to make lessons more effective and engaging with technology-supported tools,
- to teach students to develop solutions to real-life problems with mathematical models.
To these ends, alongside individual learning, our mathematics lessons offer learning environments supported by methods such as gamification and group work, in which students create projects and games together, and by up-to-date technology. Educational trips are organised with an interdisciplinary approach. Mind games reveal the fun side of mathematics. Individual and team work is done for national and international competitions at every level. Pi Day is celebrated at our school as a festival in which the Mathematics Department shows students the fun side of maths.
Our most important mission is to help students love mathematics and make it part of their lives.
Science
At TED Üsküdar College, our main aims in science lessons are:
- to give students an outlook that questions, investigates and uses scientific methods,
- to increase interest in learning by sparking curiosity about nature, technology and the universe,
- to offer an effective learning environment supported by experiments and observation,
- to ensure lasting learning through laboratory work, project-based learning and scientific research,
- to educate environmentally aware individuals who can access scientific knowledge, have analytical and evaluative skills and can interpret scientific phenomena in daily life.
To these ends, differentiated content, lesson design, effective use of digital platforms and active laboratory work at every level — for lasting learning by doing and experiencing — are central to teaching. Alongside lessons, educational trips are organised to make use of learning environments outside the classroom. Seminars with different topics and guests bring students together with experts and help them see the interaction between science, technology, society and the environment. Supporting work is done to help students succeed in central exams. The EcoTED Club, led by the Science Department, runs environmental projects such as collecting plastic bottle caps and used batteries and the cleanest classroom award. Through the UNESCO SEMEP Project, one of the Science Department's activities, we aim to raise students' environmental awareness and give them new perspectives on nature conservation.
Social Studies/History of the Turkish Revolution
At TED Üsküdar College, our main aim in social studies/history of the Turkish Revolution lessons is to educate individuals who are:
- aware of their rights and fulfil their duties and responsibilities,
- committed to Atatürk's principles and reforms,
- knowledgeable about Turkish history and culture,
- respectful of human rights,
- committed to democracy and universal values,
- modern, secular, able to learn from the past and confident about the future.
To this end, our lessons are based on core principles such as relevance, interdisciplinarity, reflective inquiry, the link between past, present and future, time-continuity-change, and flexibility.
To make social studies learning outcomes concrete rather than abstract for students, activities in and out of school such as museum visits, exhibitions and talks are organised.
Religious Culture and Ethics
At TED Üsküdar College, the aim of religious culture and ethics lessons is to contribute to raising generations who, in the light of reason and science, become aware that universal, humane and ethical values overlap with the humane and ethical values of religions.
Physical Education and Sport
At TED Üsküdar College, our main aims in physical education and sport lessons are:
- to build awareness of sport for health through basic and combined movement skills,
- to teach the movement skills and theory of team and individual sports,
- to help students understand the importance Mustafa Kemal Atatürk placed on sport and athletes,
- to contribute performances to national holidays and official ceremonies.
To these ends, we draw on concepts from the curriculum's learning areas of “Movement, Fitness and Personal-Social Development”.
Physical Fitness Tests at the start of the first and second terms identify students' current level, and training recommendations are given for their development. At all grade levels, with basic movement skills at the centre, the aim is both to teach specialised movement skills for individual sports and to carry out the physical activity needed to stay fit.
Talks and meetings with sports people, support for social responsibility projects and awareness events, and inter-class tournaments during the school year aim to contribute to students' personal and social development.
School Teams and Tournaments
- Students are guided to tournaments they can enter individually, according to their readiness and needs.
- Our school chess, swimming, basketball, volleyball and football teams take part in official tournaments organised by the Provincial Directorate of Youth and Sports as well as in private tournaments.
Visual Arts
Visual arts education at our school focuses on internalising knowledge and evaluating works of art more meaningfully; communicating personal values and ideas in making and appreciating art; researching, analysing and exploring the creative process behind a work of art; designing with traditional and contemporary art materials according to the elements of art and principles of design; developing a visual art language; and combining different techniques when creating visual artwork.
Our teaching programmes aim for students to become sensitive observers of nature; to discover their talents and build self-confidence; to use visual forms to express themselves; to get to know, understand and enjoy national and universal works of art and artists from the past to the present, and through them to value their heritage and shape their future; to develop their perception and imagination and turn them into artistic expression; and to find original solutions to new situations.
Music
At our school, which makes it a principle to strengthen teaching with activities in the arts and social fields, through the music education we give our students we aim for them
- to become conscious listeners of music,
- to learn national and universal genres of music while also developing critical thinking,
- to discover their interests and talents,
- and, for students who wish, to move into related areas of music.
Music lessons follow the Music Specialisation Programme (MBP). Through this programme, we aim for students to be able to play at least one instrument when they graduate and to discover their talents in the areas that interest them. The Music Specialisation Programme (MBP) is planned as one lesson a week in four instruments: violin, guitar, piano and percussion.
Information Technologies and Software
In our lessons, we work to help students turn their dreams into reality in the light of technology and science. With the knowledge and skills they gain, we aim for students to see innovation and production as a necessity of life and to grow into individuals who closely follow developing technology around the world.
Through training that includes coding, robotics, maker projects, artificial intelligence, digital game design, mobile app development, 3D design, virtual reality, digital citizenship and more, students take an active role in a rapidly changing world of technology and develop critical, creative, analytical and algorithmic thinking.
Within information technologies and software lessons, students are encouraged to take an active part in national and international project-based competitions, exhibitions, workshops and tournaments by developing innovative and original projects.