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Our Mission
Island School’s mission is to prepare our students to live
productive, fulfilling lives as confident, responsible life-long
learners and contributing members of society; to express fully the
talents of our faculty and administration through a challenging
curriculum that prepares students for successful higher education; to
provide a safe, nurturing environment that fosters creativity, critical
thinking, initiative, and respect for self and others. |
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Outcomes
for students are emphasized. These follow concepts of the
progressive-school movement: namely, that education should help the
child to develop a lively interest in the world, to learn to think
critically, to become an active member of the community, and to live
successfully and happily in modern, democratic society. To that end,
education should nurture in the child an openness to experience, a
desire to learn in every situation, and an impulse to continue to learn
and develop throughout life.
Our Philosophy
We
believe that education occurs when students are actively engaged in
learning, and that, students construct their own understanding of the
world along with a process for knowing and using their environment.
Teachers facilitate this process. Socrates defined this well by
comparing a teacher to a mid-wife. "The teacher's role is to draw from
the student the student's awareness of the thing to be learned".
Teachers are professionals who make decisions designed to increase the
probability that learning will occur. Learning means remembering and
being able to apply subjects under study. Learning can be said to have
occurred when it is integrated into other knowledge the student has,
and becomes embedded in the student's thoughts and actions. |
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About Island School
Contact:
Island School
3-1875 Kaumuali`i Hwy.
Lihu`e, HI 96766
808-246-0233
808-245-6053 (fax)
info@ischool.org
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