本校では独自の教育の大きな柱の一つとして学外交流活動を掲げています。
コロナ禍の中でも多くの生徒が学外交流活動に挑戦をしています。

中学2年のN.Cさんは、Learn with LEADERSの提供するイエール大学のオンライン講座に今年2月に挑戦しました。
今回受講した講座は「Artful Leadership and Critical Thinking Seminar」です。
リーダーシップ論では、「ビジョンを持つこと」、「自分を知ること」、「目標達成のためのロードマップを立てること」を学びました。
また、以前より興味のあったアート作品の分析では、積極的に発言を行い、いろいろな国籍の参加者とディスカッションをすることができたそうです。

N.Cさんが英語で受講の感想を寄せてくれましたので、掲載をいたします。

At first, I thought that we were going to do a class with the teacher speaking and all but image faded away when our mentor told us to discuss freely the painting on the screen. At first, I did not know what ‘discuss’ would be like. However, this activity of analyzing paintings became one of my favorite activities of this course; the opinions of my classmates varied and sometimes they were comical to me(for example I thought that a painting was depicting a huge clock when a classmate said that he sees a huge sliced orange). The comment that stuck to me was the comment that our mentor said, that our evidence is backed by our experience and there are no right or wrong answers. Unlike normal classes, it felt different in a good way. At some of the classes, there were guest speakers; a speaker who told us about the types of leadership and the elements of a leader and a speaker who is a painter painting about her life in the Gaza Strip and talked about the experiences she had there. At our last class, we presented our final projects. Because it was named ‘final project’ I thought that it would be like a presentation in which I talk about the painting I chose. However, this was again wrong, and my mentor told me that it is more like a discussion than a presentation. The paintings that my classmates chose for the final project were random in a good way. The painting that left an impression on me was a school mural which depicted Hawaiian mythology(the presenter is from Hawaii). Overall, I had fun in this course than a normal school day and want to do this or similar courses again.

Nさんは3月に本校模擬国連同好会が主催する「ジャパンメトロポリタン模擬国連大会」にも参加を予定しています。
「模擬国連でも積極的に活動をしていきたい」と報告に訪れた校長室で意気込みを語ってくれました。
本校では生徒たちの積極的な学外活動への挑戦を応援しています。