Meerkats Academy

Our Academy

Indiegogo Campaign Launch date: 31/10/2018

Meerkats Academy™ is a free educational website that provides high level education for free to all school students in Africa and worldwide. We provide our lessons in the form of recorded video lessons, we also provide reading materials in our large digital library. Our qualified and highly trained teachers make learning enjoyable, help students to think, and support their learning strongly. Through this unique online educational platform you will learn and enjoy learning, understand fully the school topics taught in your country and through our channel you will gain knowledge of the theoretical and practical understanding of all subjects. Join now and let your friends know about our program and be part of our expanding social media network.

Our Mission

1. Our mission is to provide all students with a comprehensive understanding of today’s world using the existing education systems and curriculum.
2. To support all students by giving them excellent education worldwide.
3. To support parents financially by encouraging them to get their children to study here to save money instead of paying for private lessons and private schools.
4. To provide one of a kind online school like no other in terms of quality and coverage.
5. To make learning enjoyable, help students to think, innovate and get creative.

Our Vision

1. Meerkats Academy is here to grow a community not a business. We want to make Africa great again.
2. Our vision is to make education available to everyone through the internet and outside the physical boundaries of schools.
3. We believe that it is time for a different type of an educational revolution worldwide. Our online platform we think is an example of how schools should be like in the future.
4. We believe that distant education should not only be available for tertiary students but also should be available for school students.
5. We want education to spread equally to every student worldwide regardless of their various backgrounds and economic status of people.
6. We are against the idea of private schools and open competitions amongst schools.
7. We are against the idea of giving exams for students and we like to replace exams by research assignments. We believe that the teachers should be learning from students and students should be learning from teachers, hence we think the research assignments should take over the exams. However, we believe exams should remain for mathematics and some topics that requires solving problems.
8. Our future vision is to make students free to learn at their convenience and our role is to protect their motivation to learn.

Meerkats Academy provides educational services for:

1. High Schools Students Worldwide
2. Primary School Students Worldwide (will be under progress mid 2018)
3. Homeschooling students Worldwide
4. Teachers (for planning lessons)
5. Adults who did not complete schools back when they were young and want to study and compensate for their lack of education.
6. Disabled students in disability schools and children hospitals Worldwide
7. Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islanders, and disadvantaged groups in conflict zones
8. Limited but comprehensive support for Tertiary Students to cover difficult topics in Engineering and accounting.
9. People of the community (short courses)
10. Students under other special circumstances

Our Role
We are working on this program to make full scale online school to support and provide this free service to any student who needs a competitive advantage at school. This website we aim to also become a primary/ main option for those who do not attend schools due to distance, health issues, or to support some schools that do not have enough teachers. We offer the best education and all our packages are free of charge.

· We are focusing on growing a community not a business
· We work to fulfill your educational needs
· Meerkats Academy is about teamwork
· We believe in generosity and quality of learning.

We believe in Human Right to Education which include:
- Individual rights
- Aims of Education
- Dignity
- Equity
- Non-Discrimination
- Community Participation.

The learning environment that we provide supports the full academic, social and emotional development for every student. We make learning relevant to the modern world by keeping the content transparent, practical, dynamic and comprehensive. We teach all students how to think right and how to make the best decisions.

How Meerkats Academy is designed and what students will learn and why?
Meerkats Academy is designed to be a critical support for students and an educational tool that is free from external forces that aim to dictate on schools what and what not to teach. we choose to have balanced criteria and acceptable outcomes to everyone equally. We are completely independent and we teach based on the resources we have. However, we follow each curriculum/ syllabus accurately to deliver our lessons purified from any external influence. Our lesson plans are in accordance with what is outlined in each curriculum and based on the teacher’s knowledge, skills, and experience. Our students learn the full capacity of any given curriculum and nothing short of satisfaction. We follow good teaching methods and our strategy of teaching is certainly effective.

“Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development. Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family”. Kofi Annan; UN Secretary-General 1996-2006.

Our Forums
We have a large social Network:

Internally: our quality made forums are available for our students, register with us to view the forums. In these forums our students can communicate directly with our teachers and other students. These forums allow students to create threads, posts, comment back to other posts and share their knowledge and understanding. There are also reading materials written by our teachers available to view and download; still under development.

Externally: Meerkats Academy pages on Facebook, twitter, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn, and Google+.

Meerkats Digital Library
We are in the process of expanding our digital library, feel free to access it and enjoy its content.

Schooling

Schooling Packages
Our Schooling packages are free to every person in the world as long as internet is provided in your area. We also have the "Support Us" button at the homepage if you wish to contribute to fund the projects we are currently doing. For more info please have a look at our ongoing projects and future goals. The more contributions we get the more lessons we make, it is as simple as that. Each package will soon to include many subjects and hundreds of lessons. Each Package is focused on the curriculum and Syllabus used in each country shown on the homepage. Video lessons will be uploaded weekly and updates are always continuous. Additional subjects and many more lessons will be added to the existing packages as soon as they get ready to upload.

Your username and password will show up on the screen once you completed the short form and also will be delivered to your email after you join, please check your junk email box in case our email ends in your junk or spam folder. Also for security reasons you will be able to login from up to two ip addresses. For example if you joined from the school computer that counts as your first ip address, if you login the second time at your home computer it counts as your second ip address. You will not be able to access your login from a third location or a third ip address unless you join again using a different email address.

About the videos
The video lessons are equipped with CC and SD functions; CC means captions or English subtitles and SD means a secondary option to reduce the video quality if you have a slow internet connection.

What we Teach?

Mathematics
Science
English
Geography
Chemistry
Physics
Biology.
More subjects are under consideration after we complete all these seven main subjects listed above.

What we do NOT Teach

Topics that contradicts cultural values
We do not teach religions given that we respect people's faiths
We do not teach explicit human sexual content

Our Strategy of Teaching

Our strategy of teaching is focused on the quality of teaching as a priority.
We use the best teaching methods i.e. we believe that the traditional way of teaching is the right way to go.
We do NOT use projectors or PowerPoint because the teachers believe that a Whiteboard and themselves visible on each video lesson is the best way to keep the students engaged in our lessons.
Each lesson resembles a private lesson where the teacher got no audience around except the viewer.
The lessons are recorded in a professional studio and we have a team of five studio professionals whom work on recording the lessons and producing the final edited videos.
We have a team of more than twelve teachers.

How we Teach?

Our qualified and talented teachers have experience in observing their students. Your feedback is important to us as we in return will improve your experience. By looking at the cameras the teachers are looking directly at the student. It’s not about them that these lessons been made but it is about the student. Our teachers have passion for teaching as well as purpose to deliver education. They give you much more than what you need to achieve the highest grades at school. Some topics are difficult to some students, but our teachers always make them clear and vibrant to the minds of our students.

The teachers teach at a personal level so your level as a student and their level as teachers is the same level. The teachers tend to raise some questions to the students during the lessons to engage and make them feel involved in the lessons. For example, a teacher asks you the viewer the following “so what are we going to do with the nuclear wastes? Should we put them under the bed or under the chair?! Pause a little… then the teacher answers his own question, ""No"... pause again… then he proceeds to say '"we need to keep them away from people reach''. By using this method in this way or in similar ways we encourage our students to think and question themselves, so they do not just take the answers without a thought.

Also in most lessons the teachers remind the students of the previous lessons or the previous topics and by the end of the lesson they often mention what the next lesson will be about. This way the teachers can repeat a point that has been mentioned to the student more than twice so that the first time is heard, the second is recognized and the third is learnt. At some instances a teacher might ask a question or give out a comment or draw a diagram then pauses a little and gives a hint to allow the students to think and realize what will be the next step. Our students can communicate and teach each other in our forums while the teachers also get involved. Every teacher has his/her own approach in giving the lessons and we do not dictate or superimpose a certain approach to be followed by our teachers. In fact, our teachers are free to choose any suitable approach to use to any given topic.

How do we know if we are doing it well?
Our teachers are creative and always express their thoughts and make the students responsive. They can express their knowledge and create sparks in their students minds to learn without difficulty. Our teachers are caring in presenting each lesson and that is what made them stand out. Being close to the cameras they give the students a sensation of being close to them physically and emotionally.

Team

Lessons and Teachers Capabilities

Our Teachers can demonstrate the content with ease so our students can enjoy learning. Our experienced teachers teach our students at private school’s level
Our teachers speak perfect English and their accent is smooth and beautiful
We admire our teachers because they have the qualities that make them good teachers.
Our teachers feel privileged and honored to take part in this program since the scale and scope of these projects are huge and equally important.
We have Serious Teachers whom are keen to benefit everyone

Meerkats Academy supplies our students with high quality lessons and continue to expand. Our lessons have the following features:

1. Each Lesson is comprehensive and covers all the topic boundaries
2. We will soon include science Lab experiments demonstrations
3. We provide revisions and go through exam papers
4. Our lessons are designed to appear in the form of one teacher to one Student. This method gives a sense of one to one experience for each student. Our teachers were performing in a studio with no students around so that each student can get a feeling that these lessons are private lessons designed only to each one of them individually.
5. Our lessons cover the designated chapters. These lessons give sufficient coverage and pushes all students ahead in learning and gives them a greater advantage than others whom are not using this program.
6. If you have a slow internet connection it will not be a problem. Our video lessons have the optional tools to reduce the quality of the videos to suit your internet speed. If you reduce the video quality to save data (bundles) or to suit your internet speed you will be STILL able to watch the lessons clearly.
7. A second video optional tool is CC captions. Using this optional tool, you can read subtitles on the videos if you have a disability of hearing.
8. We are here to listen to your feedback, we act on it to develop and improve the quality of learning through your collaboration.

Technology

We maintain the website through a respectful web design company with professional web designers and developers.
We use the highest technological and fastest servers in the world to make sure you stream the videos without any lags
We use the highest studio recording technology to produce the best quality videos

Projects

Current Projects

1.      Project Name: KENYA, Reference Number 700
        - Coverage: Grades 7 to 12 (Forms 1 to 6) – AFRICA [in English]
        - Subjects covered: Various Subjects including  Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Biology
        - The Kenyan Package Grades 7-10 is Available Now and still in progress.
        - 11 and 12 has not yet started

Future Projects
The timeline for each project will depend on our resources. These projects will start sooner or much later as funding is required.

2.       Project Name: NIGERIA, Reference Number: 701
             - Coverage: Grades 7 to 12 (Forms 1 to 6) – AFRICA [in English]
             - Subjects to be covered for Grades 7-10: Various Subjects
             - Subjects to be covered for Grades 11 and 12 will include Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Biology.
             - Progress: Not yet started

3.      Project Name: SOUTH AFRICA, Reference Number: 702
             - Coverage: Grades 7 to 12 (Forms 1 to 6) – AFRICA [in English]
             - Subjects to be covered for Grades 7 to 10 : Various Subjects
             - Subjects to be covered for Grades 11 and 12 will be Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Biology.
             - Progress: Not yet started

4.      Project Name: RWANDA, Reference Number: 703
             - Coverage: Grades 7 to 12 (Forms 1 to 6) – AFRICA [in English]
             - Subjects to be covered for Grades 7 to 10: Mathematics and Science
             - Subjects to be covered for Grades 11 and 12 will be Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Biology.
             - Progress: Not yet started

5.      Project Name: UGANDA, Reference Number: 704
             - Coverage: Grades 7 to 12 (Forms 1 to 6) – AFRICA [in English]
             - Subjects to be covered for grades 7-10 will be Mathematics and Science
             - Subjects to be covered for grades 11 and 12 will include Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Biology.
             - Progress: Not yet started

6.     Project Name: ZIMBABWE, Reference Number: 705
             - Coverage: Grades 7 to 12 (Forms 1 to 6) – AFRICA [in English]
             - Subjects to be covered: Mathematics and Science
             - Subjects to be covered for grades 11 and 12 will include Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Biology.
             - Progress: Not yet started

7.    Project Name: NAMIBIA, Reference Number: 706
             - Coverage: Grades 7 to 112 (Forms 1 to 6) – AFRICA [in English]
             - Subjects to be covered: Mathematics and Science
            - Subjects to be covered for grades 11 and 12 will include Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Biology.
             - Progress: Not yet started

8.    Project Name: ZAMBIA, Reference Number: 707
             - Coverage: Grades 7 to 12 (Forms 1 to 6) – AFRICA [in English]
             - Subjects to be covered will be Mathematics and Science
            - Subjects to be covered for grades 11 and 12 will include Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Biology.
             - Progress: Not yet started

9. Project Name: TANZANIA, Reference Number: 708
             - Coverage: Grades 7 to 12 (Forms 1 to 6) – AFRICA [in English]
             - Subjects to be covered: Mathematics and Science
             - Subjects to be covered for grades 11 and 12 will include Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Biology.
             - Progress: Not yet started

10.   Project Name: LIBERIA, Reference Number: 709
           - Coverage: Grades 7 to 12 (Forms 1 to 6) – AFRICA [in English]
           - Subjects to be covered for grades 11 and 12 will include Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Biology.
           - Progress: Not yet started

11. Project Name: Primary Africa, Reference Number: 750
           - Coverage of the first 6 years of schooling - ELEMENTARY SCHOOLING
           - British Curriculum and African Teachers
           - Coverage of all Areas of study in English
           - Progress: Not Yet Started

12.      Project Name: India, Reference Number: 1545
         - Coverage: Grades 7 to 12 (Forms 1 to 6) – INDIA, in English
         - Subjects to be covered: Various subjects including AI, Robotics, IT, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Biology

13.      Project Name: Pakistan, Reference Number: 1480
           - Coverage: Grades 7 to 12 (Forms 1 to 6) – PAKISTAN - In English
           - Subjects to be covered: Various subjects including Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, and Agriculture

14.      Project Name: Bangladesh, Reference Number: 1770
            - Coverage: Grades 7 to 12 (Forms 1 to 6) – BANGLADESH - In English
            - Subjects to be covered: Various subjects including Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, and Agriculture

15.      Project Name: Australia and New Zealand 7-10, Reference Number: 600
           - Coverage: Grades 7 to 10 (Forms 1 to 6) – Australia (Australian Curriculum) and Australian Teachers
            - Subjects to be covered: Various subjects including AI, Robotics, Engineering, IT, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Biology
          - Progress: Not Yet Started

16. Project Name: Primary Australia, Reference Number: 610
          - Coverage of the first 6 years of schooling - ELEMENTARY SCHOOLING
          - Australian Curriculum and Australian Teachers
          - Coverage of all areas of study
          - Progress: Not Yet Started

Digital Library

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