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Course Guide
2024/25

Academic Support
(Grades 9-12; 1 semester; 0.5 credit)

Academic Support provides a small-class environment to learn skills that bolster autonomy and proficiency in student learning, with targeted and guided strategies to compensate for difficulties. Individual and group lessons include topics from writing, reading comprehension, math, study skills and test-taking strategies.  Students also explore how the mind processes and integrates information so that actual learning can take place. Students work on self-directed strategies and implement tools to guide them in meeting their academic goals.  Academic Support class regularly collaborates with other academic courses to facilitate teaching and learning.  Accommodations are a regular part of this class for students with Individual Education Plans.    

Academic Support IB
(Grades 11-12; 1 semester; 0.5 credit)

Academic Support IB provides a small-class environment for students who are enrolled in IB classes to deepen skills in expressive language and executive functioning.  This class also provides strategies to collaboratively assist students in gaining skills to efficiently learn vast amounts of content, as well as giving them explicit feedback as they employ skills in self-directed learning.  Diploma candidates  respond to feedback, develop their own learning plans and goals, and integrate acquired skills in processing and integrating information for integrated learning. Academic Support IB regularly collaborates with other Academic courses to facilitate teaching and learning.  Accommodations are a regular part of this class for students with Individual Education Plans.     

English for Academic Purposes 9/10
(Grades 9 & 10; 1 semester; 0.5 credit)

EAP provides a small-class environment where students work to develop their academic English for reading, writing, speaking and listening within the context of High School and in preparation for the IB Diploma Programme.  Students are supported in their studies across the High School curriculum and learn about the particular benefits and challenges of being multilingual learners. The class thrives on community participation and students are encouraged to contribute their knowledge and skills to support their peers.  Students focus on the use of metacognition and self-directed learning in order to create their own academic English Language goals for improvement.

English for Academic Purposes IB
(Grades 11-12; 1 semester; 0.5 credit)

EAP IB provides a small class environment where students work to develop their Academic English for reading, writing, speaking and listening within the context of High School and the IB Diploma Programme.  The class thrives on community participation and students are encouraged to contribute their knowledge and skills to support their peers.  Students focus on the use of metacognition and self-directed learning in order to manage the requirements of the IB Diploma Programme and to create their own Academic and English Language goals for improvement.