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Dutchess Day School
Forman School
2022 | Guide to Private Independent Schools Personalized
Learning
WHILE INDEPENDENT, PRIVATE SCHOOLS
have been long known for their vigorous academic standards and reputation for excellence, they also are celebrated for their ability to provide unique educational experiences that address a diverse set
of needs. The result: customized learning strategies that recognize and incorporate individual learning styles.
At Dutchess Day School, students learn in classrooms full of books and materials with which to explore, discover, and invent. Teachers understand the needs of children at different stages of development. Multiple reading teachers allow lower school readers to
work at the pace and level of
challenge that is right for them.
Within the small class sizes, many opportunities for choice engage students’ varying interests and
learning styles; they may choose
a topic for writing, a musical
instrument to learn, a language to
study, or a subject for a science experiment or history project.
9 to 12 and PG, exclusively dedicated to empowering bright students who learn differently. Forman’s expert faculty deliver unparalleled education for academically motivated students with identified learning differences such as dyslexia, executive function difficulties, or attention deficits. Forman develops the whole student, based on their unique learning profile, so that every graduate becomes an educated, confident, self-advocate throughout life. Students are guided in learning strategies by specialists who are also coaches, mentors, and dorm parents. With a student-faculty ratio of
4:1, students move outside their comfort
Students demonstrate what they have learned through presentations, written essays, speeches, debates, drawings, sculptures, reenactments, skits, and musical performances.
An in-school activity period presents opportunities to pursue individual interests from robotics to fly fishing to a capella singing to Model UN.
Forman School is a coeducational college preparatory school for grades
12 HUDSON VALLEY