Place-Based Education is a philosophy that recognizes students’ strong connections to their communities, and capitalizes on local community places and resources to provide an effective context for learning. It is grounded in real-world experience giving students opportunity to apply their learning to the real world.
“What Is Place-Based Learning?” Teaching the Hudson Valley
Learning that brings the students into the community and the community into the school.
Local experts will be invited to share an understanding of their branch of knowledge and the skills necessary for their field, enriching and deepening the learning experience for students.
Work-Based Learning applies the integration of school and community specifically to developing skills for workplace success. The school will cultivate strategies for building strong and productive relationships with tradespeople, businesses and industry, to partner in the education of students.
What kind of curriculum and options will be available?
Links for further information about Place Based Education:
- What is Place-Based Education and Why Does it Matter?
- Knowing Place: Examining the Integration of Place-Based Learning in K-12 Formal Education
- What is Place-Based Learning?
- Place-Based Education – Engagement from the Student Perspective
- Place-Based Education: Improving Learning While Connecting Students to Community and Environment
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