Academics
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At Friends Meeting School we frequently use the term "lively and rigorous" to describe our academic program. Our teachers plan their lessons to achieve specific goals and hardly ever do those plans include long lecture periods.
At FMS we believe that students learn best when they engage many of their senses simultaneously. Teachers may determine the lesson goals, but students' intelligences dictate how those goals are communicated and learned.
At FMS we subscribe to Howard Gardiner's multiple intelligences theory. Our teachers develop differentiated lesson plans to address the intelligences and skills of all students in a class. By doing so students in a single class may come not just to learn, but to understand a lesson through any number of activities.
FMS students far surpass the national average (50%) for their grade level in reading, math and science in all grades. (see the latest Iowa Test Score Data).
We are far more interested in what students learn
than in trying to teach them in a single style.
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