YÜCE Schools which were established by the math teacher Yücel Kalınyazgan in 1988 is an educational institution that always breaks new grounds in the field of education.
YÜCE Schools, carrying out cooperation with international educational institutions and using technology effectively, has implemented many provinces in Turkey in this area.
MISSION:
Making a positive difference through the best education
VISION:
To be the premier educational institute in world that develops and implements innovative and advanced educational systems where individuals are passionate about lifelong learning.
GOALS:
To raise self confident, creative, responsible, knowledgeable, questioning individuals by supporting individual differences.
To increase intercultural interaction and preserve national values. To get our students adopt the habit of lifelong learning as our school culture.
YUCE Pre-school has an understanding of education that promotes creativity, develops thinking skills, supports individual differences, gives importance to character development and takes care of future needs. YUCE Pre-school, which aims to provide students with academic, social and emotional well-being, implements the International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme.
YUCE Primary School encourages students to develop their independence and take responsibilities for their own learning. It focuses on the development of students as individuals investigating and questioning both in school and in the outside world. YUCE Primary School, which supports the students' efforts to understand and be in harmony with the world, implements the International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme.
YUCE Middle School approaches students' intellectual, social, emotional and physical well-being in a holistic way. It offers opportunities for students to manage complexities and develop the knowledge, attitudes and skills they need to take responsibility for their future actions. YUCE Middle School, which prepares students to be successful at school and lifelong learners, implements the International Baccalaureate Middle Years Programme.
YUCE Science High School has an understanding of modern education which always breaks new ground in the field of education and supports its students with the skills of 21st century. YUCE Science High School adopts the principle of gaining a sense of responsibility and ethical values together with academic success. It prepares students for their university life and beyond with programs that develop high-level skills.
YÜCE College helps students develop the approaches and skills needed for both academic and personal success. It helps them grow up as characters and multi-faceted students who trust their own identities, make ethical decisions and are ready to apply what they have learned in the mixed and unpredictable situations of the real world. YUCE College, which brings together intellectual development and academic success, implements the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme.
YÜCE Schools is the first and only school in Ankara authorized to have continuum program by implementing International Baccalaureate's Diploma Program (DP), Middle Years Programme (MYP) and Primary Years Program (PYP)
YÜCE Schools is the first school with the fully-authorized by EAQUALS (Evaluation and Accreditation of Quality in Language Services) which is an important institution that certifies the quality of education in the field of foreign language education and teaching about 20 years.
It applies the standards of the P21 organization, which determines the skills required by students in the field of citizenship and career in 21st Century education, by adapting them to teaching processes.
35 years of experience
Pioneer in education
Implementing educational innovations
One-to-one computing
Learning Management System
E-learning contents
Safe school environment
Adopted core values
International mindedness
Formative and summative assessments
Comprehensive reports
Individual progress records
Socially structured exchange of information
Real life tasks
Less direct teaching and more inquiry
National and international standards
Cognitive, social and emotional skills development
21. Century learning
Latest technologiesi
Flexible classrooms
Socio-cultural learning environments
Improving self-control skills
Transforming attitudes and action
Exploring personal values
Happiness
Life success
Academic success
Lifelong learners
Role models
Listeners, instead of lecturers
In YUCE Schools, school plans are formed by combining the learning outcomes, concepts and skills of IB (International Baccalaureate) Programs, MEB (National Education Ministry) Curriculum and P21 (21st Century Skills Partnership) standards. Within the framework of 21st Century Education, students acquire an active learner profile with differentiated instruction and project based learning approaches. With the various assessment tools applied under formative and summative assessment techniques the development of the students is evaluated with comprehensive reports.
The teaching language is Turkish in Pre-School, Primary School (1-4), and Secondary School (5-8). YUCE Schools, which is fully authorized by EAQUALS (Evaluation and Accreditation of Quality in Language Services),
offer English in pre-school, English and German in primary school and onwards as foreign languages. Turkish language education is provided for our international students outside of school hours.
The teaching language in high school is English. Based on the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR), our students graduate from the high school at the level of C1 in English,
indicating a master user, and at the level of B1 in German, which means an independent user.
Private YUCE Schools use technology as an effective tool to provide education as a differentiated individual service for each student. With a "one-to-one technology" approach, each student from 3rd grade onwards uses a portable computer with his/her own Internet access. Student computers are built with cloud computing architecture and managed according to security policies. The school campus which is designed as a mirror of the 21st century business world has flexible classrooms equipped with technology and a secure Internet coverage. With the Learning Management System, lesson resources and many e-learning solutions are presented to the student through a single interface.
Open to innovations and personal development, interested in program development,
Acting according to academic discipline,
Adopting concept and skill-based learning, guiding the students and asking them the right questions,
In short, if you are realise how little you know as you learn and if you know there is a long way to go, then you are on the right path to becoming a teacher of the 21st century.
As an educational institution, YUCE provides its teachers with the academic standards and physical requirements they need for their 21st century education and guides them in their personal development process.