THE CANADIAN INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF EGYPT
Canadian education in the heart of Egypt!
The Canadian International School is blessed with the best students, parents, teachers and support staff in Egypt - together we make education happen!
The Canadian International School of Egypt is a private, for profit Pre-K to Grade 12 international school that opened its doors in September of 2002 to fewer than 30 students as an international school approved by the Egyptian Ministry of Education and authorized by Ontario’s Ministry of Education to offer courses leading to the Secondary School Diploma. Now in its eighth year it has a student population of approximately 600 students.
The Canadian International School of Egypt offers French Second Language and Arabic instruction to all students and has an elementary French Immersion Program which will ‘grow’ into the secondary school within the next two years.
With the graduation of its fourth Grade 12 cohort in June of 2009, CISE has sent over 100 of its students to study in universities in Egypt, Canada, the United States and in several countries in Europe. For the 2009-10 September 2009, employs over fifty teachers and administrators assisted by an Egyptian support staff of 150. Teacher complement is 85% Canadian with the majority of teachers from Ontario. The Canadian International School of Egypt is administered by a Director, Elementary Principal, Secondary Principal and Elementary Vice-Principal who collectively have over 150 years of experience with the Canadian education system.
The School is situated on an attractive campus in an area
of the city known as New Cairo. It has regular and specialized classrooms, a Kindergarten Pod, an Auditorium, Library, Cafeteria, Swimming Pool, Soccer Fields, Tennis and Squash Courts. The Canadian International School of Egypt is fully internet-enabled and has begun construction of an additional classroom facility for the 2010-11 school year with further additions planned for each of the subsequent three years. Next year the school will introduce the Primary International Baccalaureate Program with the Middle Years and Diploma Programs thereafter.
The Canadian International School of Egypt
enjoys a growing reputation in Cairo for academic excellence 
WHAT MAKES CISE A CANADIAN SCHOOL?
The Canadian International School of Egypt (CISE) is the first of its kind in Egypt. Established in 2002, it is without question, fully a Canadian school for the following reasons:
· Its authority to grant secondary school credits and a Canadian graduation diploma is based on its approval by a Ministry of Education in Canada.
· Well over 80% of its teaching staff are Canadian educated, teacher trained and professionally certificated in Canada.
· All of its administrative staff are Canadian.
· The curricula used in the School are the same as those currently employed in Ontario schools.
· Its textbooks, instructional materials, teaching and classroom management approaches are the same as those you would find in Canadian schools.
WHAT IS SO SPECIAL ABOUT CANADIAN EDUCATION?
Teachers at CISE work to educate students so that they learn to learn! That means that students are able to use their developing academic and intellectual talents to analyze, synthesize and problem solve. Certainly facts are important but the ability to use knowledge gained and skills developed to deal with new school and life challenges is essential.
Canadian education teaches students to think and to apply their learning in effective ways to novel situations. It is this fundamental ability that makes students with a Canadian education so successful in post-secondary schools and in their adult life.
Learning often takes place co-operatively and in activity-based ways. That means that the teacher provides students with information and certain skills and then challenges them to develop their learning further through related and increasingly demanding activities.
Parent involvement in student learning is also very important. Parents are expected to talk to their sons and daughters on a daily basis about school. Where parents need information or have a concern, we want them to call and then visit the school to clear things up. It is often said that Canadian schools do not just accept students - they enroll families! Student learning is always most effective when the home-school partnership is strong.
HOW DO I KNOW IF CISE IS RIGHT FOR MY CHILD?
Attend one of our many Open Days or,
if that isn’t convenient, call us and arrange to visit. Look around
ask questions of students or teachers and talk to one of our administrative staff. Then you can decide with confidence if the Canadian International School of Egypt is to be your child’s place to grow and learn.