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Beliefs
The Discovery School believes in ...
v Whole Child Development: (intellectual, physical, social, and emotional) through
appropriate practice. Children’s classroom activities are balanced with each child’s
overall development (maturation) and knowledge base (experiences) so that school
success (learning) is assured.
v Inquiry-Based Learning: developing critical and creative thinking skills, promoting in depth
understanding of the learner’s environment, as well as the learner’s impact upon that
environment. Children learn through experiences with people, things, and events. Through
questioning and reasoning, they explore solutions and construct knowledge as to how their world
works.
v “Hands-On and Minds-On” Learning: thoughtful engaging the learner with authentic
materials in real-life learning situations and applications.
v Individualized Learning Programs: fostering developmental growth and learning. Each
child’s learning program is based on continuous observations, portfolio collections, and
conferencing between student, parent, and teacher.
v Integrated Center-Based Curriculum: equally emphasizing the process and content
standards (thinking/learning and content/knowledge skills). Part of each day is devoted to open,
challenged, and guided explorations in centers. The children’s interests influence the selection of
content themes. Relevant subjects are interwoven within these themes.
v Personal Development: through self-management, self-evaluation, and learner responsibility.
This is learned by the intentional teaching of appropriate behaviors through
teacher modeling, student practice, and review.
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