自成立以来, McDonogh School has had an unwavering commitment to providing students with a comprehensive, 全面的文科教育. Our PK-12 curriculum ensures that students acquire a broad conceptual understanding as well as more specialized knowledge in core disciplines. 我们相信深度学习发生在学生批判性思考的时候, 运用知识和技能, and have opportunities to transfer understanding to novel situations.
麦克唐纳的教师致力于培养自力更生的能力, critical thinkers prepared to do good in a diverse and ever-changing world. LifeReady使这种转型学习成为可能. Teaching students how to think—not what to think—ensures their intellectual growth and is foundational to a healthy democracy.
Under the guidance of master teachers, students learn to make sense of new material for themselves. To this end, classes at McDonogh are cognitively demanding, active learning environments. While our teachers provide critical guidance as students develop mastery in and across disciplines, 学生应该进行深入的思考, 探索不同的视角, 合作, 有效沟通.
从学前班到12年级, 学生通过方法参与学术内容, 例程, and practices that help them learn subject matter while simultaneously developing skills in six domains: 有创意的 and 批判性思维; 自知之明的; 沟通; 的角度进行思考; 合作; and 连接. The very methods that develop these competencies are also powerful tools for thinking deeply.
As a result, McDonogh graduates students who are truly life ready. 他们学会管理快速变化, 在全球环境中, 有不同的社区, 并准备好面对意想不到的挑战. They engage in purposeful work and use their knowledge and skills to create, often forging meaningful connections between disciplines—the way most learning happens in life.
The “magic” of LifeReady is that by creating spaces of critical thinking, where students are responsible for lifting heavy cognitive loads, we also create the conditions to help them develop “survival skills” for life in the 21st century.
The LifeReady competencies represent capabilities students will need in life as well as fields of research, 研究, 以及与我们的世界相关的实践.
每个人都有能力, we have developed “I can” statements—descriptors that indicate the knowledge and skill that students will develop when learning through a variety of methods. The statements represent a core group of broad skills that tend to cut across many disciplines. 例如, 创造性和批判性思维陈述, “我可以用证据来推理,这句话在数学和历史上都很熟练, 英语, 或者视觉艺术. 当老师设计课程时, 单位, 以及整个课程, they often add more “I can” statements assuring that they incorporate life-ready abilities McDonogh develops in each student.
创造性思维
批判性思维
麦克唐纳的生命准备团队 是战略研究和设计小组吗. Each member of the team represents one of the following key research areas that are the intellectual and practical foundation for the LifeReady competencies:
The academic program at McDonogh School is founded on the belief that all children want to learn. Our program seeks to develop each child's potential through authentic experiences that engage their sense of intellectual and emotional ownership and inspire joy in learning. 我们赋予学生自力更生的能力, 能够形成批判性思维的人, 测试, 并为自己修改他们的想法, 并为他人服务. 在下面发现更多!