Artur Victoria, president of the Foundation
that founded Colegio Luso Internacional do Porto (Oporto International School) had
the primary commitment of the
preparation of students to be literate, competent, educated, skilled, informed
citizens, appreciative of the arts, capable of critical thinking and problem
solving, and able to function effectively within a complex, interdependent and
pluralistic world.
The Colegio Luso Internacional do Porto is a
k-12 school with the following goals:
1. To offer a student centered, thoroughly
modern, academically challenging, and internationally focused program of
studies!
2. To provide foreign students with the
opportunity to continue their education in Portugal in a sequential, comfortable
fashion;
3. To offer students of Portuguese parents, who
have attended schools in other countries, a proper process of school
reintegration;
4. To offer Portuguese students the opportunity
to acquire an international education that will prepare them for attendance at
foreign universities, for careers in the world corporate arena, and for suitable
positions in the post-1992 Europe.
Central to the Colegio Luso Internacional do
Porto (Oporto International School) are
seven basic principles:
1. Academic Excellence: the advancement of the
highest academic standards through a stringent and fully integrated curriculum
that stresses individual excellence and group achievement.
2. Learning how to learn: the various
disciplines are developing at a such a rate that makes an encyclopedic approach
to education quite unviable.
By focusing on how to learn, our aim is to
prepare students for a lifetime of learning and personal development.
3. Cooperative Learning: the instructional
program of the Colegio Luso Internacional do Porto is based on the prem1se that students can and
should learn from each other, ‘and that they must shoulder the greatest
responsibility for their education.
4. Diversity and Cross-Cultural Education: the
underlying concept of International Education is a learning process that
positions the study of the diverse expressions of human life at the core of its
program of studies.
5. Individual Needs and concerns: The program
focuses on the needs and concerns of each individual student.
The central programmatic focus in this regard
is the Teacher Advisor Program coordinated by the Guidance Counselor.
6. Participatory Decision-making: The
governance of the Colegio Luso Internacional do Porto is
based on a democratic model for decision-making, as articulated in its Charter.
The Colegio recognizes the preeminent role of parents, teachers, and students
in the educational process.
7. The Arts: The arts are essential to a
complete understanding of out nature as human beings and as members of
cultural! groups. In this regard the arts must be taught as independent
disciplines and as integral parts of the entire program of studies.
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