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We believe that our school is different from other schools based on these key characteristics – collaboration, critical thinking, creative problem-solving, along with a key connection to the community. At AMS, we want our students to not only collaborate with each other but also with their teachers and the community beyond the walls at AMS. We want them to talk, listen, and learn by collaborating together. This includes community shareholders, business partners as well as the school community. We want our students to communicate with each other and the community by providing embedded opportunities by teaching the students how to talk/collaborate with accountable talk. AMS teachers collaborate on projects that span cross-curricular, embed the four “C’s” and the Tiger Design Process into these projects. It’s one thing to grow as an individual; it’s another thing to grow together as a group. We want our school to model that same effective communication with our students, district, and community at large.
We want our students to be able to solve problems that do not even exist yet and to find multiple solutions. Through innovative thinking and problem solving, we encourage our students to believe that all problems are worth solving. Along with this, we believe that students should be challenged with problems that will allow them to experience and learn from failure, and through failure, truly learn and iterate until a solution is obtained. This has become a part of the pathos that makes Arlington Middle School what it is. We believe that by providing STE(A)M and problem-solving practices, we are equipping our students for the future.
"The use of technology at AMS provides our students the opportunity to bring instruction into real-life, current, and up-to-date enriched learning opportunities. Using technology, our Tigers collaborate, design, create, write, and are able to present a final product that represents their knowledge of not only the design process, but also the skills and standards which students acquire for each grade level. The enriched learning opportunities are endless using technology."
- Leslie Northam (6th grade ELA teacher)
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