Highlights of MA2S include: Four-year student-designed research program; Alternative fuels project – Convergence Education Foundation Partnership; Motorola, Inc’s “Partnership for Building Bridges and Futures;” FIRST Robotics Team; All classes honors-level; Creative thinking throughout the curriculum; Technology as a tool for learning; Hands-on interactive, interdisciplinary learning; Opportunities for independent study; and a unique blend of students from across districts. Click on the Video below for a look inside the Macomb Academy of Arts and Sciences.
The student selection process is based on the following criteria:
- Academic record
- Performance on mathematics and science achievement tests
- Teacher recommendations
- Writing sample
Instruction at the Macomb Academy of Arts and Sciences focuses on accelerated content skills. The capacity to think creatively, make decisions, solve problems, see possibilities, learn how to learn and to reason are developed as students mature.
Personal qualities, or Habits
of Mind, are encouraged and developed as well. They include
responsibility, thinking flexibly, persisting, striving for accuracy,
integrity and honesty and
remaining open to continuous learning,
among others.
Basic skills, thinking skills and personal qualities have been designated
as desirable characteristics in the workplace by the Secretary's Commission
on Achieving Necessary Skills: A
SCANS Report
for America 2000, U.S. Department of Labor.
