#NoWalls

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Differentiated spaces allow the children to learn on their own terms.

Allowing for different types of learning scenarios, both indoors and outdoors, gives scholars the freedom to more freely share their ideas and collaborate with their peers. When educators are allowed to dream up unique ways to immerse their students in learning – innovative team work and critical thinking soars. At DWY, we pledge to educate using both the natural and built environments – and those spaces in between.

Local Natural and Community Surroundings as Context

  • Develop students’ understanding of interrelationships and interactions among natural and social systems and their components.

Community-based Investigations with Opportunities for Environmental Service-Learning

  • Encourage use of higher-level thinking and creative problem-solving skills to achieve comprehensive understanding of the complexity of real-world problems and issues involving the interaction of their natural surroundings with diverse cultural, economic, and political perspectives and interests.

Integrated, Interdisciplinary Instruction

  • Provide students with opportunities to explore connections between subject area disciplines and, among natural and social systems.

Learner-centered, Constructivist Approaches

  • Take into account students’ individual learning styles, multiple intelligences and cultural background to insure effective instructional design and practices in the context of the local community.

Collaborative Instruction

  • Involve students and community members in planning and instructional delivery.

Cooperative and Independent Learning

  • Facilitate students as they form teams to work on projects and investigations.