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Academic Excellence

Curriculum & Programs

Comprehensive learning across all cycles, with STEAM, values education, and purposeful use of digital tools.

Preschool

Preschool

Early childhood at ABAT plays a major role in the academic, emotional, social, and physical development of young children. It has a different effect on their overall development and on the adult they will become. That is why understanding the need to invest on every young children is pivotal to maximize their future well-being. At ABAT preschool, we strive to develop our children’s individual talents, creativity, emotional, and communicational skills, which are essential for cultivating life-long learners.At ABAT, the learner is the center of the entire teaching and learning process. So, in line with our academic vision, our qualified teachers adopt Montessori teaching strategies, which aims through hands-on activities, collaborative work, and self-directed activities to engage students in an active learning process, and thus improve their critical thinking, self-autonomy, creativity, and their sense of teamwork.At ABAT preschool, the curriculum is tailored with a multidisciplinary and integrated approach. It is rigorous in both content and methodology to meet the highest learning standards of the 21st century learners. Conforming to this belief, we have integrated STEAM Education in our curriculum through teaching Robotics starting from K1.Our curriculum includes Arabic, English, and French languages. All three languages integrate literacy, arts, music, math, science, technology, and movement, in addition to the character building values based on our Islamic core values knowing that Islamic education fills in a major place within our curriculum.As we aim to develop love and passion for learning in a child, we offer a broad curriculum that includes wide range of extracurricular activities besides academics. Physical and mental development are provided through indoor and outdoor sports, dance, free play, music lessons, etc.

Elementary School

Elementary School

Elementary education plays a pivotal role and certain targeted goals in our kids’ lives such as enabling children to learn reading, writing, and arithmetic, creativity, along with character building, critical thinking, logical judgements, and attaining social-emotional well-being. Due to the importance that elementary education plays, we at ABAT Elementary Department strive to provide a caring community to our young learners while differentiating our instructions to meet our kids’ diverse needs.ABAT Elementary Department offers a six- year program, Grades 1-6.  It offers the Lebanese Program to students who carry only the Lebanese nationality or who carry non-Lebanese nationality and choose to study it. Core subjects including math and sciences are taught in English. Both Arabic and English are main languages; French is taught as a second language. History, geography, civics are taught in Arabic language.

Intermediate School

Intermediate School

The most important goal during the intermediate school years is for your child to develop strong study habits, to continue to embrace learning, and to value education in general. Grades, of course, are important. However, your child’s attitude about school and learning is potentially even more important. That is why our intermediate school team at ABAT supports young teens throughout this turbulence stage of life to help them become more independent and successful life-long learners.The Intermediate Department offers a three- year program for grades 7-9.  It offers the Lebanese program, which prepares students for the official Lebanese Brevet Examination.The Lebanese Program is offered for Lebanese students or for students with other nationalities who are interested to be enrolled in it. Core subjects including math and sciences are taught in English. Both English and Arabic are taught as major languages; French is taught to all middle classes as a second language. History, geography, civics are taught in Arabic language.

Secondary School

Secondary School

The Secondary Department at ABAT prepares students for official examinations and future pathways. Programs include Lebanese and foreign pathways with counseling, leadership, and university preparation.

STEAM Education

At Makassed Ali Bin Abi Taleb College, STEAM is a hands-on, cross-curricular journey where students tackle real-world challenges through Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics. From coding and robotics to AI and design thinking, learners research, build, test, refine, and present solutions with confidence.

STEAM education at ABAT