Week Without Walls
The WWW program focuses on project-based learning, where students engage in an extended knowledge-acquiring process that enables them to solve challenges. This experience stimulates their mental and physical growth and mastery of skills. During the learning experience, students simultaneously apply the knowledge gained to solve authentic problems.
The educational projects based on academic and practical learning consist of taking various trips and visiting places of relevance, pertinent to the studied subject of interest.
The Week Without Walls experience is designed so that students will:
- Gain knowledge and skills through investigation and responding to authentic, engaging, and complex issues, problems, or challenges, for an extended period of time;
- Start asking relevant questions because the endpoint of the learning process is not the curriculum per se. Students are part of an in-depth process of raising questions in a real-world context that speaks to their personal concerns and interests;
- Reflect on what they learn, the quality of work they produce, on the obstacles and how to overcome them;
- Become closer and supportive of one another as they make new friends and live our mission.
STUDENTS RESPONSIBILITIES
• Students must become familiar with their project/trip;
• Students must ensure that parents have received ALL necessary information;
• Students must obtain parental approval for the project/trip they participate in;
• Students must attend ALL orientations and meetings;
• Students must complete all registration requirements;