Applied Learning Core Beliefs

The applied learning approach encourages students to learn independently and as team members in a stimulating learning environment. In addition to team work, an applied learning education emphasizes strong verbal and written communication skills while highlighting problem solving behaviors.

The learning environment is characterized by the collaboration of teachers and students with a focus on the use of strategies and resources to best support student learning:

• using interdisciplinary concepts and processes to solve real-world problems;

• functioning as members of multiple groups;

• using documents and sources of information in addition to textbooks;

• creating a variety of products that others can use;

• relating the work of the classroom to the real world;

• influencing and shaping the course of their own learning.