Our Goals
Our curriculum focuses on helping learners acquire a set of broadly applicable skills that they can apply accordingly to whatever challenges they might face in their lives and careers. Students’ high school years should principally be about learning how to learn and acquiring the competencies they need in order to do that effectively. Learning is no longer just a means of acquiring information; instead, teaching and learning methods – which have always been an important consideration in education – become more important than ever.
“Education Is A Lifelong Journey.”
Our teacher supported courses assist and encourage students in the process of learning. In the high school courses that we envision, this will not often involve simply giving information to the learners for them to memorize. Instead, OeS will invest most of their time and energy in creating the optimal conditions in which students make connections that constitute their own learning. This is a subtle, but important, shift that OeS endeavours to incorporate in all their courses. Our goal is to prepare our students to reach their full potential in life. Students will:
- be lifelong learners
- be passionate
- be ready to take risks
- be able to problem solve and think critically
- be able to look at thinks differently
- be able to work independently and with others
- be creative
- have integrity and self respect
- persevere
- have moral courage
- be able to use the world around them well
- speak well, write well, read well
- work well with numbers
- care and want to give back to their community
- truly enjoy their life and their work.
