The Buffalo Academy of Scholars schedule follows a six-day rotation. Day two involves a Learning Strategies class. This class is taught with all staff and students in a group format, and students learn about specific strategies that can be used to promote more success in their learning, how the learning process works, how to learn to study, analyze effective from ineffective primary sources used for research, and how to ensure their success learning both inside and outside of school.
In addition, the Learning Strategies class teaches students to:
- Develop new insights and create knowledge
- Use existing knowledge in new ways
- Communicate knowledge effectively
- Realize when knowledge is incomplete or inconsistent
Learning Strategies teaches cognitive skills and activities that are involved in the extension, transformation, and evaluation of knowledge—primarily, but not limited to problem-solving, research, and communication.
Weekly Field Trips
Day four provides for a weekly field trip that is aligned with topics being taught in the students’ classes. In this way, the field trip strengthens understanding of concepts taught in school by illustrating the way that knowledge is applied outside of school. Students prepare for the field trip in school by completing activities designed to have them understand the role of the trip and its relationship to their in-school assignments, are required to complete an analysis of the trip while it is occurring and complete follow-up work in school after the trip has been completed.
