Language Arts
Our language arts core curriculum focuses on building our students’ confidence and skills in the multifaceted realm of communication. As great communication is key to any successful business or academic endeavor, we engage our students in a variety of writing experiences that demonstrate creativity, lucidity, and persuasiveness. Our goal is to inform our students with a wide variety of primary texts, to help them understand the historical context of a piece of writing, and most importantly, to develop a lifelong love of reading, and appreciate it as an expression of the diversity of human experience.
Mathematics
We find that it is essential for our students to highly value mathematics and its use in related disciplines. We strive to help them build confidence in their abilities to approach mathematical situations, and to think, reason, and communicate mathematical ideas orally and in writing. We assess our students in the acquisition of these abilities by giving them a number of opportunities to demonstrate their computational proficiencies as well as effectively use their mathematical reasoning skills in a cooperative setting. We also teach our students the history of the development of mathematics as a field of study and the profound role it has played in society over time.
Science
At the core of an exceptional science education is the motivation and passion to pursue one’s scientific curiosity. We expose our students to the basic concepts and principles of the laws of the universe, the scientific method, and diverse investigators and theorists over time. After attaining this fundamental knowledge, we encourage our students to experiment and to understand the growth of scientific ideas and inventions and to explore how the interplay between evidence and theory has evolved over time.
Social Studies/History
By imparting the history of people around the world to our students, our primary goal is to help develop a perspective of the world that is founded in a deep respect for the rights and dignity of all peoples. We believe that an education founded in the understanding of one’s identity and role in a democratic society within our global community is necessary to do this. We cover the core practicum of social sciences including geography, history, government, and economics. We take special care to provide opportunities for inquiry-based learning, so that our students learn how to research, analyze, synthesize and present information that is imperative to stay current in today’s world. An outline of important examples of group decision-making, conflict resolution, and cooperative efforts to promote the common good is at the heart of our social studies curriculum.
Second Language -Spanish, French, Russian, German, ASL Sign Language
At the Batt School, we feel that bilingualism is an important and enriching skill to possess. In our increasingly globalized world, being able to communicate in multiple languages opens doors and increases the brain’s elasticity. We offer language instruction that covers the foundation of grammatical structures, basic speech, and early literature of the second language, as well as the importance and legacy of the particular culture and language on the United States and the world.