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The Mount Douglas Secondary Challenge Program serves the unique needs of gifted, creative, and talented learners by creating a community which seeks to maximize student opportunities for enrichment, self-direction, independence, synergetic interaction and emotional well being in a secure, mentoring atmosphere. The program will foster the development of individual excellence through differentiated educational experiences.
The Mount Douglas Secondary Challenge Program offers gifted, creative, and talented students an educational program consistent with their abilities which aims to prepare them for post secondary education and the world at large. The program makes every attempt to ensure that students become knowledgeable and skilled in "core areas" of instruction. Acquisition of knowledge is seen as a cornerstone of the program; however, students do not learn in a rote manner but are expected, instead, to develop an understanding of relationships within knowledge, one of the hallmarks of an educated individual. Methods of instruction are also aimed at the development of higher order thinking skills. Activities and assignments routinely require students to analyze, synthesize or evaluate material covered. Similarly, students are asked to make logical extensions or to establish and justify conclusions.
Skill development is seen as a second cornerstone of the Challenge Program at Mount Douglas Secondary. A concerted attempt is made to ensure that students develop necessary research, organization and presentation skills. These skills flow naturally into independent study projects, which further hone individual skills while offering opportunities to develop creativity and skills in long term planning, time management and group dynamics.
Within the program, Grade 9 and 10 Challenge students stay together for the core subjects of Social Studies, English, Science and Mathematics. In Grade 11 and 12, Challenge students maintain the grouping in Social Studies, English and Mathematics and choose the appropriate Science courses. An Interdisciplinary Studies course is typically taken in Grade 11 or 12 as well. The core subject grouping offers an environment and a peer group where interest in learning and facing intellectual challenges is seen as the norm and not as something unusual or undesirable. This constructive peer atmosphere is a tremendous advantage to the academically gifted student. On the other hand, the elective program provides the advantages of mixing challenge students with the rest of the student body and ensuring that they are well integrated into the school's broader culture.
The Mount Douglas Secondary Challenge Program offers students opportunities for enrichment in education, skill development, performance and accomplishment. It asks for keen intellectual interest and a commitment to shared goals.
Interested applicants should download the application form. Please note the application deadlines. We, in the program, look forward to working with new students towards these shared goals.
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