Old Town High School Maine ME.

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Grades: 9-12
Type: public
Enrollment: 762

203 Stillwater Avenue
Old Town, ME 04468
Penobscot County

Phone: (207) 827-3910
District: Old Town School Department

Philosophy and Purpose of Education
            The purpose of public education is to provide all students with a series of disciplined learning experiences that will challenge them to mature and aspire to contribute to society and to experience lives that are personally meaningful in our culture.
            To achieve this goal, schools depend upon channels of communication. All educators and citizens should be informed and exchange ideas relating to mutual needs of community and school.
            Our schools have the responsibility to recognize each student as an individual and to assist in each student’s social, emotional, intellectual, physical, and cultural growth to the best of that student’s ability.
            Each pupil should be challenged to exert some genuine effort in the acquisition of desirable skills and concepts. A significant part of this responsibility must be shared by and with the home.

Indeed, our schools should provide a fundamental foundation in democratic principles by encouraging students to pursue special interest areas and by encouraging students to develop an appreciation of one’s worth and respect for others.
Support by the community and the local school authority is a major condition for sound program development in our school system. Imagination, industry, initiative and expertise of the professional staff are also essential factors in implementing this development.

The school community has high expectations for individuals and provides and environment and the necessary resources to promote collaborative and reflective learning supported by the school theme of perseverance, respect, individuality, dignity, and excellence.

Philosophy and Objectives
Because Old Town High School is an integral part of society, our school must provide its students with an education which will enable them to function well and responsibility within that society. To that end, our school must impart the knowledge, skills, and attitudes, commensurate with ability, to assure its graduates success in whatever productive roles they choose. It is also recognized that our school is a cooperative venture in which students, parents, faculty, school staff, administration, and community have obligations to fulfill.

Goals
            To provide a curriculum which, through the use of writing, speaking, listening, reading, problem solving, research, and interpretation, will promote both critical and creative thinking.
            To offer a curriculum which will meet the scholastic needs of all students.
            To offer a curriculum that will meet the practical needs of the students by providing them with the skills needed for career choice, health and well-being, and life.
            To present opportunities within the curriculum that helps students to understand the role of the United States as it relates to cultures other than their own.
            To recognize our rapidly changing technological society and to review and, if necessary, adjust all school programs in an effort to address those changes.
            To encourage the implementation of various teaching methods designed to accommodate a variety of learning styles and to reevaluate and update those methods and objectives to meet the needs of the student.
            To explore integrated approach to teaching and learning through inter-disciplinary cooperation using the Learning Results as a model.
            To raise the awareness of the importance of the relationship between aspirations and achievement and actively seek involvement in the community for raising student aspirations.
            To encourage in students an appreciating of and sensitivity to the fine arts.
            To foster in students an understanding of their civic responsibility and a respect for individual rights.
            To encourage interest in positive leisure activities.
            To foster on-going communications with feeder school systems, post-secondary institutions, and potential employers to discuss curriculum and expectations.
            To offer an extra-curricular and co-curricular program designed to complement and enhance the school’s philosophy.
            To nurture a mutual feeling of respect among students, parents, faculty, school staff, administration, and community.
            To foster an awareness and understanding of cultural, social, and economic problems that create barriers to learning.
            To provide a clean, safe, and pleasant atmosphere conducive to work and learning.
            To motivate students to become life-long learners.

Old Town High School is accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges, Inc., a non-governmental, nationally-recognized organization whose affiliated institutions include elementary schools through collegiate institutions offering post graduate instruction.

Accreditation of an institution by the New England Association indicates that it meets or exceeds criteria for the assessment of institutional quality periodically applied through a peer group review process. An accredited school or college is one which has available the necessary resources to achieve its stated purposes through appropriate educational programs, is substantially doing so, and gives reasonable evidence that it will continue to do so in the foreseeable future. Institutional integrity is also addressed through accreditation. Accreditation by the New England Association is not partial but applies to the institution as a whole. As such, it is not a guarantee of the quality of every course or program offered, or the competence of individual graduates. Rather, it provides reasonable assurance about the quality of opportunities available to students who attend the institution.
Inquiries regarding the status of an institution’s accreditation by the New England Association should be directed to the administrative staff of the school or college. Individuals may also contact the Association:

COMMISSION OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES
209 BURLINGTON ROAD BEDFORD, MA 01730-1433
(617)271-0022

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