You’re a freshman. You take Freshman seminar, in which you read good books, many of your own choosing, and talk about learning and how you’ll accomplish this thing called your high school education. You’ll find out about brain research and learning styles and you’ll play with multiple intelligences and experiment with ways in which to learn things. You’ll find out about all the mysterious standards you’re expected to master during your 4 years, and you’ll help to plan how to make that happen. And you will learn about a great many tools that you can use to accomplish this learning experience – tools like research process models and technological notetaking, electronic writing, self-publishing, social bookmarking and myriad others.
Then you’re a sophomore. In this year you will add to your portfolio, begun in Freshman Seminar, at least one major exhibit of your knowledge in the area of science, social studies or mathematics. The same will be true for junior year, but your exhibit will need to be in an area different from the area you exhibited in during sophomore year. At the end of each semester during these two years, you will add to your portfolio a reflective piece that considers yourself as a learner and your contributions to the learning community.
Senior Capstone, also a course, will involve creating a major exhibition of mastery that will clearly show how you have mastered the habits of mind and the skills of learning that are most important to have as an informed citizen in the 21st century.
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