The Academies at Wheaton High School |
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Academies OverviewWheaton High School is a comprehensive high school of over 1,400 students. The school offers a rigorous academic program with a full range of honors classes and 16 Advanced Placement courses. As ninth graders enter Wheaton, they enroll in the Ninth Grade Academy. Developed around the concept of a small learning community, the Ninth Grade Academy is organized into interdisciplinary teams of English, math, science, and social studies teachers who share a specific area of the school building and a common planning time. Incoming freshmen are connected to a select team of caring Academy staff who use research proven best instructional strategies to teach the curriculum as well as to address their students' needs more personally. Teachers work in a collaborative environment and are committed to the learning of their students. Connections, the freshmen orientation course that focuses on developing and honing the personal and academic skills of the students, also introduces them to academic and career pathways in order to help define their high school experiences. Those pathways are the three Wheaton academies of technology: Biosciences and Health Professions, Engineering, and Information Technology. Additionally the Institute for Global and Cultural Studies will open in the fall of 2006. All students are invited to participate in the academies. Each academy will provide a more personalized smaller learning community (see chart) in our school that is devoted to offering an excellent and rigorous curriculum to students of all abilities as well as the opportunity to participate in meaningful hands-on and experimental activities which will enable them to make informed educational and career choices. Academy faculty and counselors will work to help ensure the proper support and resources are provided to students so high standards are not seen as a barrier to overcome, but as a standard to be met and exceeded. Academy Logo (click to see all) News LetterUpdated September 16, 2008 | Maintained by Webmaster |
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