Quran School Guidelines

QURAN SCHOOL GUIDELINES

For South Musallah - A Chapter of Muslim Association of Calgary (MAC)

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Page No.
1.0 INTRODUCTION .............................................................................................................3
1.1 1.2 Objective ........................................................................................................................ 3 Scope............................................................................................................................. 3

2.0 3.0

SCHOOL CHARTER.......................................................................................................3 REGULATIONS ..............................................................................................................3

3.1 3.2 Staff Regulations ............................................................................................................ 3 Students Regulations...................................................................................................... 3

4.0

STAFF POSITIONS & RESPONSIBILITIES ...................................................................5

4.1 4.2 4.3 School Manager ............................................................................................................. 5 School Coordinator......................................................................................................... 5 Teachers ........................................................................................................................ 6

5.0 6.0

CLASS ROOM STRUCTURE .........................................................................................6 STUDY MATERIAL AND LEVELS .................................................................................7

6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 Level 1: .......................................................................................................................... 7 Level 2: .......................................................................................................................... 7 Level 3 ........................................................................................................................... 7 Level 4 ........................................................................................................................... 8 Level 5 ........................................................................................................................... 8

7.0 8.0 9.0 10.0 11.0

SCHOOL BOARD ...........................................................................................................8 REPORTING ...................................................................................................................8 AMENDMENT PROCEDURE..........................................................................................9 TREASURY.....................................................................................................................9 DEFINITIONS..................................................................................................................9

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1.0 INTRODUCTION
1.1 Objective
The objective of the Quran School Guidelines (QSG) is to provide policy and procedure in regards to managing the Quran School in South Musallah on the behalf of South Calgary Muslim Community.

1.2

Scope
This QSG contains the Quran school charter, school staff regulations and responsibilities, Students Responsibilities, study material and levels description, progress reporting mechanism and provide amendment procedure based on community and staff feedback.

2.0 SCHOOL CHARTER

Quran School is to provide Muslim community children (students) the ability to read entire Holy Quran in a period of TWO & HALF YEARS.

3.0 REGULATIONS
3.1 Staff Regulations
1) All staff members are volunteers. 2) All staff members should be able to teach. 3) Each staff member should sign the staff registration form. The registration form lists the staff member duties according to this document, contact information and relevant schedule. Any changes to the information on the registration form should require a new form to be filled and signed. 4) To avoid any conflict of interest, staff shall not be member of South Musallah management committee. 5) All female staff should comply with Hijab requirements.

3.2

Students Regulations

1) Students should be attending a public school or any Alberta education approved program. 2) Minimum age for students registration to Quran School shall be 6 years and no limit to maximum age.

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3) Students should exercise discipline in the school. 4) Students should wear proper clothing for prayer and female should comply with Hijab. 5) Sick students should not attend the class. The student must inform the management ahead before the sessions. 6) Maximum of three consequent classes absentees are allowed before termination. 7) Misbehaving / Bullying students will be terminated after three warnings. 8) Students will not receive any certificate if the required material is not passed. 9) Any terminated students will require new registration, if management decides to re-admit them in Quran School. 10) Teachers will interview the students prior to registration in School and Teachers will solely decide for students placement or promotion / detention to appropriate Class Level (level 1 to 5 as described below in section 6). 11) Students / Parents or Guardians must fill the registration form to join the classes. The registration form should include the emergency and regular parents contacts, address, names and health concerns. This form should be approved by the management to be valid. 12) Students should bring their note book to keep track of what they learned and any relevant class notes. It is student responsibility to maintain it. 13) Punctuality should be observed by all students. If, for any reason, there is a delay in arrival of students to School by more than 15 minutes, Parents/ Guardians should contact the teachers. 14) Students should not bring any personal belonging which tends to distract their studies, like mobile phones, play-station portables, ipods, cd players, toys, etc. 15) Students should not wear costly items/ jewelries. Teachers / Management will not be responsible for safe guarding these precious materials.

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4.0 STAFF POSITIONS & RESPONSIBILITIES

The staff positions shall be as follow; 1) School Manager 2) School Coordinator 3) Teachers

4.1

School Manager

School Manager Duties shall be as follow; 1) Reporting the school progress and financial records end of every month in a form of month end letter. 2) Preparing annual summary in form of a report and presentation based on submitted month end report. 3) Planning and arranging supplies of the school. 4) Parents and staff meeting organization on each individual student twice in a school year to review child progress. 5) Organize school and parent annual meeting to review school progress in general and perform surveys for future improvements. 6) Teaching a period, if a staff member is not available for teaching. 7) Attending each school period for any emergency requirement. 8) Preparing and keeping records of students and staff registration forms, payments and following up on renewal time with parents. 9) Keeping records of annual parents evaluations to be included in the annual report and presentation. 10) Keeping records of monthly teachers student evaluations to be included in the monthly report and keeping all teaching materials samples. 11) Preparing and distributing graduation and intermediate certificates

4.2

School Coordinator

School Coordinator Duties shall be as follow; 1) Continuous recruitment of teaching staff and preparing their teaching schedule. 2) Calling and following up with each staff member every week prior teaching period to assure the attendance and preparation.

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3) Teaching a period, if a staff member is not available for teaching. 4) Attending each school period for any emergency requirement. 5) Monitoring and assuring teachers compliance with the specified material and Alberta Education Management committee teaching regulations. 6) Arranging staff and management meeting every month or every two months at maximum to review the progress.

7) Reporting any misbehaving / bullying students to parents for maximum

three times before student termination.

4.3

Teachers

Teachers Duties shall be as follow; 1) Assuring the compliance with Alberta Education Management committee teaching regulations. 2) Assuring safety of each student from the time of arrival to the school till the departure from the school. 3) Monitoring students during teaching period including breaks. 4) Teaching the provided material and recording the progress of the period as a guide for next period. This requires maintenance of a log book provided by management. 5) Reporting student progress to the management on monthly basis. 6) Maintain students attendance record and conduct log book.

5.0 CLASS ROOM STRUCTURE

The followings are the minimum requirements of the school class room: 1) Each class room should be used for one session at a time. 2) One class room may be used to teach male and female students together. 3) The class room should have minimum of a white board and enough supplies of markers and erasers or any other teaching material. 4) The class room should be equipped with chair and a desk to each student. 5) The class room should be safe to conduct any session. 6) The class room should not accommodate more than twenty students.

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6.0 STUDY MATERIAL AND LEVELS

The material of study is the Holy Quran and Arabic script. To pass any level, a reading and writing tests must be conducted. The material is divided as followings:

6.1

Level 1:
1) Arabic Letters (reading and writing). 2) Arabic Letters with eleven sounds (reading and writing). Eleven sounds are Fatha, Dammah, Kasrah, Sokoon, Dammatain, Kasratain, Fathatain, Shaddah Fatha, Shaddah Dammah, Shaddah Kasra, and Madd. 3) Arabic Letters with Vowels (reading and writing). Vowels are Alef, Woow and Yah. 4) Letters recognition in the beginning, middle and end of a word. 5) Twenty selected Quranic words reading and writings with their English meanings. 6) Reading Quran from Surat Attakathur to Surat Annas & surat fataiha. 7) This level requires minimum 20 hours of teaching over maximum of FIVE months.

6.2

Level 2:
1) Level 1 is mandatory. 2) Fifty selected Quranic words reading and writing with their English meanings including level 1 words. 3) Reading Quran from Surat Annas to Surat Alfajr. 4) Emphasis on Shadda and Madd sound while reading. 5) Two stories of Quran: Surat Alqalam and Surat Alfeel (oral only). 6) This level requires minimum 16 hours of teaching over maximum of FOUR months.

6.3

Level 3
1) Level 2 is mandatory. 2) Hundred selected Quranic words reading and writings with their English meanings including level 2 words. 3) Reading Quran from Surat Annas to Surat Annabaa (Juzz Thirty). 4) Emphasis on Shadda and Madd sound while reading. 5) Two stories of Quran: Surat Albrooj and Surat Almasad (oral only). 6) This level requires minimum 12 hours of teaching over maximum of THREE months.

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1) Level 3 is mandatory. 2) Hundred and fifty selected Quranic words reading and writings with their English meanings including level 3 words. 3) Reading Quran from Surat Annas to Surat Almujadala (Juzz Twenty Seven). 4) Emphasis on Shadda and Madd sound while reading with little bit of selected Tajweed rules. 5) Memorizing from surat Annas to surat Alasr. 6) This level requires minimum 20 hours of teaching over maximum of THREE months.

6.5

Level 5
1) Level 4 is mandatory. 2) Two hundred selected Quranic words reading and writings with their English meanings including level 4 words. 3) Reading Quran from Surat Alfateha to Surat Annas (whole Quran). 4) Emphasis on Shadda and Mad sound while reading with little bit of selected Tajweed rules. 5) Memorizing from Surat Annas to Surat Attakathur. 6) This level requires minimum FOURTY hours of teaching over maximum of SIX months.

7.0 SCHOOL BOARD

1) School board consists of all staff members. 2) SMSC will appoint the school manager and coordinator.

8.0 REPORTING
School manager reports to South Musallah management committee. South Musallah management committee supports and finances the project initiation, and does not appoint staff or interferes in its policies or by laws. The management committee only receives the monthly and annual reports. This school mainly runs based on feed back from students parents directly. South Musallah management committee has the right to stop any changes to this document or any new addition if not according to this documents by laws. For the management committee to assure the implementation of this document, school should submit copy of any changes to the management committee. If the changes are according to this document by laws, then management committee has no right to interfere.

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The South Musallah management committee has the right to inspect as many times as necessary the implementations of by laws. If inspection occurs, a copy of the report should be handed to school management and the management committee.

9.0 AMENDMENT PROCEDURE

Quran school guidelines (QSG) are not subject to change or alteration. Any change in this document must follow following procedure; 1. All school staff must approve the change within a week. 2. All changes should be documented and signed by all staff members. 3. A change request for approval should be in the form of an amendment to this document.

10.0 TREASURY:
The school treasury should be handled by the SMSC.

11.0 DEFINITIONS
SMSC: South Musallah Society of Calgary Muslim Community student: All student, male or female of Islam faith followers families and not limited to any Muslim sects and other faith than Islam followers under their parents consent can be admitted. Reading Entire Holy Quran: Reading the Holy Quran includes ability to read Arabic script and limited to write all letters and some selected words only. Reading also includes first level Tajweed recitation as well. Reading does not include memorization of Holy Quran but interested under their parents consent may be encouraged and special classes may be arranged Year: Year is defined according to the solar calendar. The CBE (Calgary Board of Education) school year schedule applies. In addition, Quran School is off during Islamic month of Ramadan. Staff: Staff (male and female) includes teachers and management members. It includes any other who may contribute at a short period basis as well.