Curriculum
At the heart of Gow’s curriculum is Reconstructive Language (RL), our Orton-based language remediation program. Our content area courses are designed to utilize our students’ strengths while remediating their weaknesses. Multisensory instruction, executive function skills, and study strategies are emphasized throughout all courses. Faculty members receive ongoing training in methods that maximize student learning potential, and they are committed to providing individualized attention and extra help. Gow teachers know that students’ success in the classroom depends on them understanding their students language-based learning disability.
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Applied Technology
Applied Technology is focused on students using their artistic and mechanical abilities to prepare multimedia visual projects.
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Health
Health focuses on discussion of critical issues in health, moral and ethical principles, and employing effective strategies when responding to health problems.
Middle School English
Students will acquire a body of knowledge about genres, techniques, themes, works, and authors in American, British, and world literature in our English courses.
Middle School History
History is focused on major events and principles in the history and current affairs of The United States and other cultures.
Middle School Math
Math is focused on employing mathematical devices and modes of thought such as data analysis, proof, graphing, induction, and deduction.
Middle School Reconstructive Language
The Reconstructive Language (RL) courses are designed for students to acquire knowledge, understand the effects and cope with the challenge of dyslexia and learning differences so that they can develop their own strategies and set goals for learning
Middle School Science
Science is focused around investigating and employing creative problem-solving skills and contributing to the common good while acting on scientific principles in an environmental or community.
Upper School English
Students will acquire a body of knowledge about genres, techniques, themes, works, and authors in American, British, and world literature in our English courses.
Upper School History
History is focused on major events and principles in the history and current affairs of The United States and other cultures.
Upper School Math
Math is focused on employing mathematical devices and modes of thought such as data analysis, proof, graphing, induction, and deduction.
Upper School Reconstructive Language
The Reconstructive Language (RL) courses are designed for students to acquire knowledge, understand the effects and cope with the challenge of dyslexia and learning differences so that they can develop their own strategies and set goals for learning
Upper School Science
Science is focused around investigating and employing creative problem-solving skills and contributing to the common good while acting on scientific principles in an environmental or community.
What’s Typical, What’s Required
Gow students attend classes of three to seven students, six days a week. They take at least six academic courses, including RL. A daily 30-minute tutorial period and, supervised two-hour evening study hall provide time to complete assignments and receive faculty assistance. Study hall also includes a reading period, when students read books of their choice... for fun. The structure of Gow, with the understanding nature of our teachers, and the Assistive technology, all play a central role in our student's success.
Graduation requirements include English (4 credits), history (3), math (3), science (3, including 2 in lab science), arts (1½), and health (½). Reconstructive Language is required throughout students’ time at Gow, while electives let them customize their course of study.
The Gow School sends academic communication to parents eight times a year. One-page reports from each class are sent at the end of all four marking periods while advisors share comments that summarize all classes, athletics, and dorm life in the middle of each marking periods.