Real World Experience

 

"A healthy human environment is one in which we try to make sense of our limits, of the accidents that can always befall us and the passage of time which inexorably changes us." - Rowan Williams

We appreciate authentic learning as a best practice for student learning.  Students find more meaning when they learn by doing and when what they are learning is information they perceive to be relevant and interconnected.  Ideally, every class lesson surrounds a real-world problem and a solution students might discover through critical thought, problem solving, and active participation.  Ideally, the learning will be linked from one class to another and then from school to home.

Oak Hill teachers communicate regularly to ensure that what students learn in one classroom is reinforced in another.  A fourth grader, for example, might complete a book report on a novel about the planet mars in language arts, learn about how to measure air density on the planet mars in math, and then construct a life-like clay model of mars in art.  When a news story on the evening news presents a debate about whether NASA will focus studies around space travel to the Earth's moon or beyond to mars, the fourth grader can link learning from school to current events.  These types of exercises occur for Oak Hill students daily.  Each is an essential component of our curriculum.

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