Personal Best
Designed to guide, teach and instill in York Academy & College students, from Junior Kindergarten to Grade Twelve and Pre-University Program, vital character attributes like creativity, aspiration, resilience, empathy, responsibility, self-motivation, and collaboration with others that will help our students to succeed in education, work, and life and in the world in general. York Academy & College Personal Best Curriculum takes an approach to reposition the purpose of learning embedding with a focus to experience its relevance to all aspects in life. The impact provides a circumferential support model focusing on:
- Well-being
- Leadership
- Achievement
- Life Skills
- Health and Wellness
- Positive Lifestyle-Driven Attitude
- Etiquette
- Workforce Adaptability
The mandate of York Academy & College Personal Best Curriculum is for students to:
- Build the capacity to integrate character education explicitly into planning, teaching and learning
- Enable students to experience, articulate and improve their character trait in applied life’s challenges, opportunities and undiscovered opportunities.
- Improve skills, behaviour, more positive engagement, greater responsibility and articulate strengths and skills in their learning, life and beyond
- Develop awareness of their own unique learning, coping and adaptability styles such as predominantly auditory, visual or kinesthetic style.
- Be allowed to choose appropriate strategies reflecting their own unique style
- Independently problem solve and apply learning processes creatively
York Academy & College Personal Best Curriculum provides faculty and adjunct professionals needed strategic apparatus that must be implemented within their teaching model in order to creatively meet each student’s academic and non-academic highest potential as “Multi-Talented and Multiple Intelligence Renaissance Students”