Who Uses Our Curriculum?
Arabic is a critical need for many different types of organizations, and most have a wider mandate than just Arabic, and thus are not always able to give adequate time to developing their own in-house curriculum. This is where Fawakih comes in, in order to give you a curriculum to build your program around, while saving your administration and teachers time, money, and headache.
Various institutions have various needs, and the curriculum is structured in a way that has some adaptability for implementation within different environments. Here are some of the common institutional categories and some of their unique considerations:
1.) Universities and Colleges
Given these universities are degree-granting, our testing system has helped them to standardize their assessment process.
Often, these universities ask students to purchase their own textbooks.
Whereas they may have Arabic instructors, some appreciate the training and content we provide, specifically for Quranic Arabic.
Universities often fit our levels within their semester system, depending on how many credit hours the course grants.
2.) Seminaries
Seminaries often have dedicated, long-term, full-time students, who do very well with the Fawakih curriculum, given their goals often align with learning a sacred language.
Given the curriculum has beginner, intermediate, and advanced levels, it lends itself to a multi-year study plan, and has adequate content to serve full-time students on their journey.
Seminaries often bring in students from various backgrounds, and thus, a placement system is particularly important to ensure students are placed in the right level and have the option of 1.) placing out of levels to meet their seminary requirements; 2.) augmenting or continuing their learning with Fawakih directly online.
3.) Local Institutions (such as mosques or teaching institutes)
Mosques have members of the community who wish to learn the language of the Quran at a pace comfortable to them, and Fawakih provides an efficient learning system that is tailored to their needs.
Mosques are often serving their congregants in a myriad of ways, and thus, rarely have time to adequately focus on specialized programs, such as Arabic. Fawakih’s program gives them everything they need to launch their Arabic program.
A challenge local institutions face is that there are absolute beginners who struggle with reading, as well as the majority who can read but do not comprehend much of the Quran, even if they are heritage learners and speak a dialect at home.
4.) Islamic Middle and High Schools
The challenge Islamic schools face is they have younger students that they must keep engaged and cannot always be selective as to who is in the class. Moreover, scheduling can often be complicated and not always lend itself to language learning.
Whereas the Fawakih program has been designed for self-motivated adult learners, enthusiastic schools are able to utilize the curriculum with mature students and the right level of instructor support.
The Fawakih content lends itself to learners that require more interactivity, as it teaches the foundations of Quranic Arabic in a practical and applicable way, without excessively difficult language or theory without practice.
In addition to purely an Arabic program, schools often find Fawakih’s approach covers some of their goals for students to better engage, read, and reflect on the Quran. Thus, it can be a core component to a robust Quran and Islamic studies strategy that empowers students and ennables lifelong learning.