Experiential Learning
In more traditional school settings, students often hear and read about others' experiences. At EMS, teachers consider individual learning styles and facilitate opportunities for students to make discoveries and experiment with knowledge firsthand.
Then, students have time to reflect on what they have experienced, completed, even made mistakes with. That's experiential learning.
Experiential Learning
Experiential learners must:
- be willing to be actively involved in the experience.
- be able to reflect on the experience, sometimes in writing, sometimes in conversation with teachers and peers.
- possess and use analytical skills to conceptualize the experience.
- possess or make progress in developing decision-making and problem-solving skills in order to use the new ideas gained from the experience.
Outside the classroom ...
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EMS Experiential Learning News
Our students are deeply engaged in a culture of service. Through their churches, service organizations, and our school, they have abundant opportunities to give back and learn skills that are useful from building projects to immediate disaster relief efforts. When Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) reached out after the hurricanes and severe flooding this fall, we knew our students, teachers, and families would be eager to volunteer their time for cleanup efforts. Our Head of School, Paul Leaman, and two students Lya and Isaac share some of…
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