Planning and Preparing
Thorough preparation precedes teaching. Every course is researched and structured, and is described in terms of clearly stated objectives.
A plan for every subject at every stage is prepared. Each plan is complete: it includes all of the points to be taught and the skills to be developed; it is detailed: each objective is precise and measurable; it is paced: progress is charted against a timeline. The plan for each stage dovetails with that of the following stage, ensuring that nothing essential to further learning is omitted, and enabling the transition from year to the next to be smooth and successful.

Teaching Methods
The whole class is taught together, using the unique SABIS^® Point System. The key concepts of a lesson are listed. Each of these is taught interactively, alternating oral work, individual written work, and group checking. Class time is utilized for building a solid foundation of knowledge through interacting, analyzing, forming and expressing opinions, and effective discussion. Discussions are based on critical thinking and logical reasoning. The various teaching methods that are used and the pace that is set stimulate students by keeping them interested and channeling their enthusiasm. When in class, students learn actively: they do not simply listen to lengthy explanations or take dictated notes.

Testing and Monitoring
Continuous evaluation of student learning is an integral part of the instructional process in the SABIS^® system. Frequent and regular testing is conducted in order to evaluate student learning and permit timely, positive intervention. Testing students in this way has a number of very important advantages:

a- students are trained to perform well under the pressure of time and other constraints

b- students develop the ability to focus and to sustain concentration for increasingly long periods

c- the feedback from testing allows close monitoring and follow-up

The proprietary SABIS^® Software Systems provide many programs that allow prompt, reliable assessment of student knowledge as well as effective follow-up. One such program, the SABIS^® Academic SystemTM (SABIS^® AMSTM), is used to assess student knowledge of every concept taught. The SABIS^® AMSTM allows ?gaps? in student knowledge to be pinpointed as they form. Working as a team, teachers and students then focus their efforts on ?filling the gaps?. The SABIS^® AMSTM allows the progress of every student to be continuously monitored, problem areas to be identified, and the most appropriate solutions to be implemented.

Follow-up
The progress of every student is continuously followed up, and students are given the support they need. All available means are used to help those who fall behind to catch up. They are advised in study techniques, motivated by the academic staff, and encouraged by receiving help from peer-tutors or teachers. In the SABIS^® School Network, no one is left to his or her own devices.

The SABIS Student Life Organization^®
The schools in the SABIS^® School Network firmly believe that education has the power to change the world. The SABIS^® Student Life Organization (SABIS^® SLOTM), a distinctive and integral part of the SABIS^® Educational System, gives students the opportunity to develop life skills that empower them to make a difference. The SABIS^® SLOTM is the students mini-society. Prefects who are selected not elected manage the SABIS^® SLOTM. All students are encouraged to join the SABIS^® SLOTM and to take an active part in their education, both at the academic and the non-academic levels. Working in cooperation with and complementing the efforts of the administrative and academic staff, prefects are valuable assets to their schools. They help to raise the general standard, promote high social and moral values, and encourage participation in a wide range of additional activities. Student Life Officers allocate real-life tasks to students, and advise and support them in all of their efforts.