Physical Education and Wellness Sample Clauses

Physical Education and Wellness. Students will demonstrate mastery over their own physical health and well being. Los Ositos will ensure that students internalize these habits of mind and master these core competencies through an instructional program that is community-based, learner- centered, and university-assisted. The school will be a bilingual, biliterate, and multi- cultural learning environment where individual and collaborative inquiry are supported and encouraged, and where students can feel confident trying new ideas, negotiating with one another, stretching their thinking, and reflecting. Students will be active learners and engage in a variety of learning experiences including projects, internships, seminars, experiments, and so on. By posing questions, gathering information, analyzing data and going back to refine their questions for further research, students will develop important critical thinking skills. Moreover, learning at Los Ositos will extend beyond the classroom into both the community and the UCLA campus—both rich contexts for developing students’ passions and competencies. These approaches, like all teaching methods used at Los Ositos, will be research-based and continually assessed and refined. In what follows, we describe the Los Ositos curriculum in more depth, structured by the following five sections: • Community-based Curriculum • Meeting the Needs of All Learners • School-wide Approach to Literacy and Numeracy • Lower School Curriculum • Upper School Curriculum