Academics — Teaching & Learning
Teaching & Learning
The ultimate goal for both teachers and students is the achievement of deeper learning — through traditional, experiential, and project-based experiences.
No. 01 — Our Approach
Deeper learning, by design.
Curriculum at The Storm King School is built to spark creativity, encourage risk-taking, promote critical thinking, and foster collaboration. Broad course offerings and a flexible academic schedule allow students to discover their passions and take a leading role in the creation of their own personal trajectories.
Our faculty relies on approaches that actively engage students as they master the necessary content in various disciplines while encouraging the perfection and application of academic and life skills through traditional, experiential, project-based learning experiences. Discussion and collaboration are active components of all of our classes.
As much as possible, teachers ensure that learning grows from authentic, interdisciplinary problems and projects. While content is a necessary focus, the way information is processed, verified, and used is at the forefront. Students need to understand how they learn and evaluate, make decisions, and master knowledge by actually constructing it themselves.
No. 02 — In Practice
What our faculty teach, and our students learn.
Nine commitments that run through every classroom at Storm King. Click any one to read it.
Necessary content and skills in the disciplines of Math, Science, Humanities, English, Arts, and Foreign Languages.
How to think critically, thoughtfully dissect a subject or issue, ask incisive questions, and solve problems and bring solutions.
How to step beyond one’s comfort zone, take risks, fail gracefully, and succeed through persistence and hard work.
How to collaborate, be flexible, and be adaptable — in the classroom and beyond it.
An understanding and appreciation for the Arts — music, theater, creative writing, visual arts — as a means of personal and creative expression.
Global and cultural awareness, developed in one of the most international student communities in the country.
How to be effective leaders and citizens of their local and global communities.
How to maximize benefits from using technology, and how to use it responsibly and ethically.
How to use information, conduct research, create a hypothesis, acknowledge sources, and present findings.
No. 03 — Beyond the Classroom
Learning that leaves the room.
Project-based application, international travel, collaborative and interdisciplinary work, and experiential vehicles such as Community Service, the use of Black Rock Forest, and trips throughout the surrounding Hudson Valley and New York City are built in to our academic and student life programs.
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