GENERAL - GENERAL INFORMATION
Vision on Education and Learning
Pedagogic Vision
We assume that people are driven by three basic psychological needs: the need for relationship, for competence and for autonomy. We see man as motivated to develop and equipped for that purpose; we regard individual differences as a fact.
- We foster the individual and social development of students; we want to prepare the students for an active, committed and responsible role in society.
- We offer the student a safe pedagogic atmosphere, in which we make clear what we expect of the students and help them to meet those objectives.
- We stimulate the development of the students by expressing positive high expectations - whilst taking into consideration the prospects of the students.
- We encourage the development of the students by making them jointly responsible for their development.
Vision on Learning
Learning is a mental activity: information only becomes knowledge if you integrate this information into what you already know. Learning is therefore a process in which students actively relate new knowledge with existing knowledge and find the connection themselves.
- Learning to co-operate and co-operative learning make up an important part of school life.
- The teacher directs the learning process; the main questions when preparing for a learning activity are: what are the students going to do and what are they going to learn from it?
- Teachers strive to offer learning activities that meet various intellects and learning styles. By making it possible to experience success, we want to boost the students' self-confidence.
- The student, together with the teacher, must determine as much as possible the learning activities, set him/herself a target, manager his/her time and evaluate his/her own work (method); in short: feel as if he/she is the master of the educational process.
Significant Features of the Education Offered
Het Rijnlands Lyceum Oegstgeest is a 'lyceum' that prepares for higher education and that traditionally wants to offer more than a standard package. Therefore, we give the following qualities priority:
- Academic depth: we safeguard the quality of the separate subject disciplines.
- Attention to 'transfer': students are able to manipulate coherent knowledge and skills in an ever-varying context; where possible the subject matter is linked closely with his/her living environment, forms a bridge to the world outside the School and invites critical and creative reflection.
- Internationalisation: we want to prepare out students expressly for a growing worldwide co-operation.
- Attention to Art and Culture: the School offers the students extra opportunities to grow in the field of Art and Culture, both within the curriculum (exam subjects, for example) and outside the curriculum (extracurricular activities).
- The use of ICT as a Medium: ICT is an important addition to the palette of opportunities available to the students for learning and communicating in different ways.
