Supporting Your Fawakih-Powered Journey!

Fawakih is committed to providing your powered location support throughout your journey. This is divided into three general phases:

1.) POWER UP: This is the phase in which the institution is gearing up to launch their Fawakih-Powered Program. They are finalizing details regarding dates, pace, instructor, registration, and ordering textbooks. Key team members and instructors are going through the onboarding and training process. Ideally, this process starts months ahead of a program start.

2.) POWER CHECK: in this phase, a program is running, and institutions are expected to check in and provide an update (sent to support@fawakih.com) to ensure everything is going smoothly and if anything else is needed from the Fawakih team. It is recommended that this check happens within a few weeks of the program starting, so that adjustments can be made early. Report should include:

  • Link to updated roster and student quiz completion rate

  • Placement challenges (At-risk students? Higher placements?)

  • Instructor Curriculum progress

  • Any learnings (challenges, surprises)

  • Inspiring stories? Reflections?

3.) POWER DOWN: in this phase, a semester or program has come to an end, and we ensure that students have clarity as to the next steps of their journey, whether they are continuing with the local program or joining Fawakih online. This is also when surveys are reviewed.

  • Celebration, certificate

  • Identify top students

  • Next steps for institution, students.

IMPORTANT POWER-UP ACTION ITEMS

1.) Your primary email for anything you may need is support@fawakih.com

2.) We ask each institution to create an internal WhatsApp group with their liaison to Fawakih, any instructors that will be teaching, as well as key admin involved.

  • Add your primary liaison as an admin so that they may add on any additional Fawakih team members as necessary.

  • Include the following: your course dates, websites, and any other relevant info in the whatsapp group, specifically copy and paste the following into your WhatsApp group description:

    • Institutional Website & Physical Address:

    • Link to roster: (google drive)

    • Link to Student Whatsapp group(s):

    • Course Start & End Dates:

    • Instructor Name(s) full names and levels they teach:

3.) Instructor Support WhatsApp group: please join this whatsapp group to be able to collaborate with your fellow Fawakih instructors. Teaching can often be challenging and even lonely at times. Whereas, some have administrative and academic support, there are other instructors that may not have the support (and in some cases, the confidence) to effectively serve their students. Here, we have created a welcoming community of fellow Quranic Arabic instructors. You can share any challenges you’ve had with students or the curriculum overall, in order to get feedback from your peers who may have overcome similar issues or may also be facing them.

FAQs

Can Fawakih provide substitute instructors?

Students often value Fawakih’s punctuality, continuity, and reliability. Conversely, one of the understandable struggles that powered institutions face is maintaining class continuity, despite instructor circumstances. This may come from an instructor’s travel, moving, or being unable to teach for various reasons. What differentiates a high-quality powered program is their attention to detail and ability to create redundancy in their teaching team. This includes having TA’s for a class, having a small team of instructors that can cover for one another or add on levels and sections, and cultivating a pipeline of future instructors that can be deployed on short notice. As a backup, in certain situation, Fawakih can potentially martial its broader network or in-house instructional team to provide substitute instructors. This often would require the session to be conducted online.