Personalized Instruction

Every student benefits from instruction that acknowledges their strengths and challenges.  Everyone has strengths and challenges; this internal variability comes with being human.

Tremont School teachers work with students to understand their strengths, challenges, and goals in a holistic way.  Because students enjoy the benefit of highly skillful educators, students loop with a number of the same teachers; this continuity generates a head-start for educators and students alike in terms of being able to pick back up in a consecutive year and advance skills efficiently.  Along with annual  goal-setting conversations with students and families, portfolio sharing, and an understanding of individual learning styles, Tremont works with students to know themselves better–celebrating strengths and stretching skills in other areas.  

Tremont’s model assumes variability in students and is designed to integrate these different needs.  This progressive and inclusive model creates a warm classroom environment where students are not competing with each other but are challenging themselves while appreciating peers’ strengths and learning styles.

At times, personalized instruction is also available in Contract blocks in the Middle School schedule, and is part of both coursework and Contract blocks in the High School.