Bilgin Anatolian High School

Bilgin Anatolian High School, located in Ataşehir, Istanbul, started its educational activities in April 2015. Private Bilgin Anatolian High School raises students intending to raise individuals who question, make a difference with their knowledge, skills, attitudes, and behaviors, and contribute to the formation of a highly qualified workforce at national and international levels. Bilgin Anatolian High School was founded to always be "the best". Bilgin is a serious educational institution that is aware that it raises qualified individuals. As Bilgin, our goal is to teach students the path to success in the easiest way and to raise individuals who transform the knowledge they acquire into attitudes, behaviors, and skills with their education based on questioning outside the rote education line and transform these accumulations into superior achievements based on universal and national values. In this direction, it is to educate all its students academically and socially as the most prominent individuals of national and international societies and to be an exemplary educational institution all over the world. With 23 academic staff and hundreds of graduates as of 2018, Bilgin Anatolian High School is an Anatolian high school that stands out with its educational models and physical conditions. Our organization guides young people and assists them in their desire to become active actors in society, to re-evaluate values, and to develop the necessary skills and competencies beyond those developed within the framework of formal education. Within the scope of Erasmus+ projects, Bilgin Anatolian High School aims to be open to learning, and innovation, increase the capacity to collaborate at the international level, increase international work, and increase student exchanges in the project activities period. In line with its goals, it aims to provide students with overseas education and training opportunities and to ensure the vision development of students. Bilgin Anatolian High School aims to create a universal world understanding for both academic staff and students with the short-term student mobility it has done so far. Bilgin Anatolian High School carries out projects with Germany, Hungary, and Kosovo within the scope of sister school projects abroad. Bilgin Anatolian High School supports its students in social responsibility activities. It carries out joint studies with national and international non-governmental organizations. Bilgin Anatolian High School received the quality label from the Philosophy for life project within the scope of e-twinning projects. Bilgin Anatolian High School, which has carried out many e-twinning projects until this year, is open to the innovative learning model and takes steps to ensure that its students plan their careers correctly. Our International & Erasmus office within our school operates in Bilgin Anatolian High School within the framework of Erasmus+ and other programs of the European Union (EU). This office was created for the management, development, and coordination of international exchange programs. The organization Bilgin Anatolian High School regularly provides local, national, and seminars, meetings, camps, and training courses that are based on the principles of formal education with an engagement of people. Three of the main activities of our projects are: Educational projects: training of leadership for a better change in society among people - schools of human rights cover human rights, civil rights, gender equality training of trainers in the field of work training of peacebuilding and conflict transformation camp of arts training of development of business competencies and unemployment issues schools of project management - work camps. Social projects: projects to support a healthy lifestyle support for people with disabilities and with fewer opportunities support campaigns against limitations on human rights ecological events, energy efficiency, and savings Cultural projects: foreign language-speaking clubs and film societies literature evenings exhibitions of art Bilgin Anatolian High School provides individualized support to enable young people to develop the skills they need to access employment and entrepreneurial initiatives. Many young people are some way off from being ready to access a formal employability scheme, so the process of being ready to enter and sustain employment can take time. When the young person arrives at Bilgin Anatolian High School, we conduct a thorough initial assessment to gauge not only what that young person’s prior attainment is, but also find out about their goals and aspirations to create a ‘culture of possibility’ that can inspire them to reach their potential. A range of complementary activities wraps around the core learning program, which typically involves sports, arts, music, or media to help prove that learning can be fun.