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澳门金沙app下载计划2024-2025.pdf

澳门金沙app下载的教育方法  

澳门金沙app下载的教育, while maintaining a challenging college-preparatory curriculum at its core, is undergoing a process of re-design in response to the changing world and college landscape. This year’s offerings are designed to meet 纽约 State requirements and college expectations while allowing students flexibility and choice to pursue their interests. We include a variety of options for earning honors credit and advanced courses of study while emphasizing independent initiatives. Pathways of study are designed to strengthen intellectual abilities, 促进品格发展, advance interests in specific subject areas and prepare students for life beyond Northwood’s campus. 

最重要的是, 我们的目标是教学生如何学习. We encourage them to be in the driver’s seat of their own educational career. It is our goal that all students will build the skills necessary to succeed in one of our Peak Pathways which include opportunities for student-designed electives, 应用机器人与高级研究.   

With that in mind, our rigorous curriculum aims to recognize 包括学术和经验的学习模式 that students engage in both during the traditional academic day and during their co-curricular pursuits. In the following course descriptions, many courses also are organized differently, outside of the traditional confines of how school “seat time” is measured. 课程可以在传统的学习日之外进行, once a semester for an intensive 48-hour weekend such as our Outing Club electives, 或者是异步的，比如我们的艺术工作室时间选项. 

This course program includes each of our offerings for the 2023-24 school year with descriptions of course content and how the course is executed. Please read carefully to understand the commitment of each course as well as any prerequisites or necessary teacher approvals. Placement in a course is also subject to space availability, 每天的课程表和学生的总课程负担. 可能会发生一些变化. All students will be contacted by the Academic Dean to confirm their registration.

毕业要求 

The graduation requirements outlined here must be met to earn a Northwood diploma. Six courses per semester are the standard load for Northwood students. 这包括如下所述的课外活动.  Students are urged to challenge themselves academically which, 对于许多, means taking courses well beyond those required for a diploma. Northwood strongly recommends that students take a rigorous academic program for personal growth as well as for the practical purpose of increasing college and other post-secondary options.  

学分 

In the 2022-2023 school year, Northwood shifted from a trimester system to a semester system. For the Class of 2026 onward, the minimum number of credits required for graduation is 24. 这相当于6个整年的课程. (A year-long course earns 1 credit; a semester course earns 0.5信用.)  For returning Northwood students, previously taken full-year courses now equal one credit. Previously taken trimester courses (worth 1 or 2 credits) equal .5信用. For students transferring into Northwood, equivalencies for graduation requirements will be accepted.  

For all graduating classes prior to 2026, adaptations will be made per the below: 

面向2025届的学生, the total number of credits will be 15 for 2021-22 plus 6 for the following years. 合计= 33. 

面向2024届的学生, the total number of credits will be 15 each for 2022-23 and 2021-22 plus 6 per year for the following years. 合计= 42.

*学生必须参加飞跃, 澳门金沙app下载研讨会 and co-curricular education while enrolled at Northwood. 转学生, the final number of credits to meet requirements will therefore vary in direct proportion to the number of semesters spent at Northwood.