Co-curricular Programs - Media & Technology Studies

High Meadows Media and Technology

Technology

The technology curriculum at High Meadows School, offered to our Kindergarten - Middle Years students, is designed to enable students to explore and develop confident skills in:

  • Word processing
  • On-line information search
  • Multi-media presentation
  • Spreadsheet
  • Databases

These five areas empower students with technology-enhanced learning tools that are appropriate to students’ age and characteristics, provide learners with visualized (multimedia) learning materials, immerse the new tools and skills seamlessly into the learning process, and promote and support High Meadows’ project-based learning approach.

Technology positions our teachers to encourage and facilitate their students’ learning It provides teachers with effective teaching tools to stretch their instructional expertise as well as students learning potential. Our students are challenged with complex, authentic tasks, and multidisciplinary projects. Their adaptability to the complicated and ever-changing society grows through these experiences.

High Meadows technology curriculum standards are based on the national educational technology standards, and guided by our unique project-based approach. The standards are modified and updated yearly to meet the national educational technology standard requirements.

Library & Media Center

High Meadows Media and TechnologyThe High Meadows library has flexible scheduling available as well as regularly scheduled classroom visits enabling all students to visit the library on either a class visit or individual basis at least once a week. The curriculum the students experience in their classrooms is reinforced in the library.

The holdings of the library consist of approximately 14,000 books, some 100 videos, 39 periodical subscriptions, 25 audio recordings, 10 View-Master non-fiction reels, two electronic encyclopedias, as well as a collection of books and teaching aids for teachers, and a parent book collection. The computer equipment includes three look-up stations for students with Internet access. The Media Center also has a dish connection to televised broadcasts.