Imagine a school with no classrooms packed full of students, no backpacks weighed down by books, no time spent on what the student already knows.
Imagine a school dedicated to the success of each student, a school that customizes every course to the student’s interests and strengths and is determined to employ the most innovative neuro-educational concepts that expand the mind, increase I.Q., and vastly improves learning capacity.
Imagine a school committed to responsible, modern socialization, moving every student beyond memorization to analysis, and developing graduates who are fully capable of succeeding in the 21st century.
Imagine a school that enables each student to move beyond average.
We imagined all that too. Then we created it.
A traditional school operates as a factory would: brick and mortar standing static and inflexible, methods defined and constrained by structure, students defined by the building’s predetermined capabilities and capacities, production systematized and controlled by fairly linear process.
In contrast, Andover operates like a brain: a dynamic organism reacting to and reflecting the present, students taught to their ability, not a building’s capability, capable of constant change – develops classes and programs to expand students’s passions, concerned with the whole student, not limited to only putting a student through a linear academic process.
It’s a fundamental and monumental change in the way “school” exists. Here are some of the details:
All Classes Taught One-on-One
Advantages: Highly efficient as students only need to spend one-fourth of the time in a classroom; teachers can engage active listening and thus be attuned to a student’s intellectual and emotional states; courses can be highly customized and paced precisely according to the student’s needs and interests.
All texts on tablets
Advantages: Thousands of e-texts available to each student, anytime, anywhere; texts with audio/video/links to allow students to repeat lessons to deepen their understanding; teaches students to explore and learn from the world as it exists now.
Dynamic Course Options
Advantages: The course catalog is just a starting point; every student takes an interest assessment, and working closely with the dean and teachers, develops a learning plan, which should include courses not in the catalogue; we’ll develop and get accredited electives designed specifically for each student. Further, the semester contract encompasses the scope of the entire student’s life and encompasses the scope of the student’s daily life, integrating academic pursuits with personal interests, thus truly addressing the whole student.
Quality-Controlled Outcomes
Advantages: In addition to dynamic assessment, all academic courses will have nationally recognized objective assessments to control quality and prove results.
Dynamic Assessment
Advantages: The school’s mission is to teach the student; the student’s responsibility is to prove mastery. How mastery is proven is up to the student: essay? Test? Video? Blog? Research? Andover will align project-based assessments to each student’s interests and goals.
Responsible, Modern Socialization
Advantages: Andover College Prep is committed to modern, responsible socialization based on the following principles:
~Schools should not create artificial environments to socialize students.
~Students today create social networks in many differing forums, and the school should
encourage and lead in this process rather than view it with fear and disapproval.
~Students need to be socialized to interact successfully and confidently with adults and
view them not as adversarial authority figures but rather as mentors.
~These principles are designed so that students can form long-lasting friendships across
the socio-demographic spectrum and across media, reflecting the way in which relationships occur in the real, modern world.
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