Technology

Technology use at Westtown School is thoughtfully and deliberately integrated into the curriculum at all levels of instruction. Developmental appropriateness is a driving force in how we teach and use technology at Westtown, moving from more actual teaching of skills and processes in the early grades to more sophisticated applications later on. Our ultimate goal, however, is to utilize the tools of technology to enhance the school's charge of providing an essential education for all students.

In the Lower School, for example, the objectives of technology use and instruction focus on the development of attitudes, approaches, skills, and processes that will help children use technology to support their curricular learning and work. Direct technology instruction in the early grades is immediately applied in the classroom setting.

In the Middle School, the purpose of technology education is to make it relevant for students by teaching technology through the curriculum. The Middle School believes that technology should be an enhancement to the learning process, not a substitute. The goal is to equip students with the knowledge to utilize technology properly to further their creativity, productivity, and inquisitiveness.

Finally, in the Upper School, students—and faculty—engage with the latest technologies as tools in the learning process. With Smartboard technology in nearly twenty classrooms in the Upper School, students learn sophisticated presentation skills, and numerous school owned computers (along with generous access to them), as well as a mobile laptop lab for classroom use, facilitate student academic work in writing, using subject-specific review software, emailing, surfing the web, or researching our extensive collection of subscription databases.

For more specific information about technology tools, equipment, programs, and curricula, link to each of the divisional technology pages.