Experiential Learning
In more traditional school settings, students often hear and read about others' experiences. At EMS, teachers consider individual learning styles and facilitate opportunities for students to make discoveries and experiment with knowledge firsthand.
Then, students have time to reflect on what they have experienced, completed, even made mistakes with. That's experiential learning.
Experiential Learning
Experiential learners must:
- be willing to be actively involved in the experience.
- be able to reflect on the experience, sometimes in writing, sometimes in conversation with teachers and peers.
- possess and use analytical skills to conceptualize the experience.
- possess or make progress in developing decision-making and problem-solving skills in order to use the new ideas gained from the experience.
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EMS Experiential Learning News
Recently local students shared essays written about their teachers in the Massanutten Regional Library Honored Teachers Essay Contest. The Kiwanis Club of Harrisonburg judged all the essays and chose the top two for each group of students. In a heartwarming essay Marta, a student at Eastern Mennonite Elementary School shared an essay about Susan Stoltzfus, second-grade teacher. Marta won first place in kindergarten through second grade for her essay about her teacher Susan Stoltzfus. “One thing about her is that pretty much every time I…
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