At Promontory School of Expeditionary Learning, fieldwork is an essential component of teaching and learning. Consistent with our mission, we view learning as an expedition – one that extends beyond the classroom and into the community, natural world, and authentic learning environments.
Through purposeful fieldwork experiences, students engage with experts, explore compelling questions, encounter diverse perspectives, and apply their learning in authentic contexts. These experiences foster curiosity, critical thinking, collaboration, character growth, and a lifelong love of learning while supporting the development of knowledge and high-quality work.
Fieldwork at Promontory advances our mission of cultivating excellence and the love of knowledge while empowering students to embrace challenge, act with humanity, and become the Great Thinkers of the 21st century. Guided by our RISE FAR values – Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence, Family, Adventure, and Responsibility – fieldwork encourages students to become active participants in their own learning and engaged contributors to their communities and the world around them.
Fieldwork provides students with meaningful opportunities to investigate, discover, and make connections to ideas, people, places, and real-world experiences that deepen understanding and bring learning to life. By connecting classroom learning to authentic experiences, fieldwork helps students learn deeply, develop character, and see themselves as capable learners, leaders, and citizens
At Promontory, fieldwork is defined as a purposeful investigation rather than a traditional field trip. While traditional field trips often focus on observation and exposure, fieldwork engages students as active investigators. Students use the tools, practices, and habits of inquiry employed by professionals, researchers, historians, scientists, artists, and community experts to answer questions, gather information, and deepen their understanding.
Fieldwork is used when it directly supports learning by allowing students to:
Fieldwork is intentionally planned through the backward design process and serves a specific instructional purpose. As teachers design learning expeditions, they first identify the standards, learning targets, and desired outcomes students are expected to achieve. Learning experiences, assessments, and fieldwork opportunities are then thoughtfully selected to support those goals.
Effective fieldwork is directly connected to academic standards and expedition goals and is an integral part of the instructional design process.
These experiences promote literacy, teamwork, critical thinking, problem-solving, and character development while helping students understand the relevance and application of their learning beyond school. Through fieldwork, students develop the knowledge, character, and habits of scholarship necessary to become the Great Thinkers of the 21st century.
At Promontory School of Expeditionary Learning, fieldwork is an essential component of teaching and learning. Consistent with our mission, we view learning as an expedition – one that extends beyond the classroom and into the community, natural world, and authentic learning environments.
Through purposeful fieldwork experiences, students engage with experts, explore compelling questions, encounter diverse perspectives, and apply their learning in authentic contexts. These experiences foster curiosity, critical thinking, collaboration, character growth, and a lifelong love of learning while supporting the development of knowledge and high-quality work.
Fieldwork at Promontory advances our mission of cultivating excellence and the love of knowledge while empowering students to embrace challenge, act with humanity, and become the Great Thinkers of the 21st century. Guided by our RISE FAR values – Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence, Family, Adventure, and Responsibility – fieldwork encourages students to become active participants in their own learning and engaged contributors to their communities and the world around them.
Fieldwork provides students with meaningful opportunities to investigate, discover, and make connections to ideas, people, places, and real-world experiences that deepen understanding and bring learning to life. By connecting classroom learning to authentic experiences, fieldwork helps students learn deeply, develop character, and see themselves as capable learners, leaders, and citizens
At Promontory, fieldwork is defined as a purposeful investigation rather than a traditional field trip. While traditional field trips often focus on observation and exposure, fieldwork engages students as active investigators. Students use the tools, practices, and habits of inquiry employed by professionals, researchers, historians, scientists, artists, and community experts to answer questions, gather information, and deepen their understanding.
Fieldwork is used when it directly supports learning by allowing students to:
Fieldwork is intentionally planned through the backward design process and serves a specific instructional purpose. As teachers design learning expeditions, they first identify the standards, learning targets, and desired outcomes students are expected to achieve. Learning experiences, assessments, and fieldwork opportunities are then thoughtfully selected to support those goals.
Effective fieldwork is directly connected to academic standards and expedition goals and is an integral part of the instructional design process.
These experiences promote literacy, teamwork, critical thinking, problem-solving, and character development while helping students understand the relevance and application of their learning beyond school. Through fieldwork, students develop the knowledge, character, and habits of scholarship necessary to become the Great Thinkers of the 21st century.
