Hopetown strives to enhance effective learning and teaching by:
- students playing an active role in the learning process
- a strength-based approach to programming, allowing students to experience and build on the success
- expressing high expectations and acknowledging achievement
- effective support provided to classroom programs
- the learning experiences of students affirming their individuality and being positive and satisfying
- building on and developing skills to assist with student reintegration into mainstream settings or successful transition to vocational training or employment.
Outcomes
- students participate in decisions about their own learning
- students demonstrate enhanced social and emotional competencies
- students pursue a program of learning relevant to their needs and realistic aspirations
- students develop an understanding of themselves as well as skills for positive, socially responsible participation
- students work towards competencies which enhance the quality of their relationships with others
- students feel valued and empowered to be life-long learners.