Introduction
Middle School Program (Grades 6 - 8)
Early adolescence, the middle school years, is a time when children experience a great amount of change physically, socially, emotionally, and intellectually. Children begin to view the world around them differently, attempt to understand and relate to others, and ask complex questions about things that were usually taken for granted in the earlier years. The AISV Middle School curriculum is based upon American model and is a transition between Elementary self-contained instruction and High School departmentalized instruction. Middle school students receive much, but not all, of their core subject (language arts, math, science, and social studies) instruction while grouped with their grade level peers. In addition to core academic subjects, the School offers French, German, Lithuanian language and culture, physical education, art, computers and music.
High School Program (Grades 9-12)
The high school program at AISV offers a college preparatory curriculum. It is designed to encourage high academic standards through an inquiry-based approach to teaching and learning. It prepares students for further studies whether they transfer to a high school in the UK, the USA, or other international high schools or universities. The curriculum is suitable for students of all nationalities and different levels of ability. The majority of the resources used in the program come from publishers in the USA.
In addition to core subjects (math, English, social studies, science) which are offered 5 times a week, students take physical education, health, art, music, computers, and Lithuanian language classes once or twice a week (a foreign language and the Lithuanian mother tongue class is taught 5 times a week). We have a very strong staff -our History and Science teachers are both PhD's and we have a US Fulbright teacher in the high school English department.
Students of grades 11 and 12 at AISV are offered the Advanced Placement (AP) courses (AP Biology, AP Calculus, AP Statistics, AP Literure, AP French, AP Art, etc.). The AP program challenges students with course work that in many cases is credited toward university completion. The College Board website (http://www.collegeboard.com/) describes the AP program and its recognition worldwide. AISV students in grades 11 and 12 may take the SAT I and SAT II tests - globally recognized college admission tests. They test the knowledge of reading, writing, math, and specialist subjects. Most colleges and universities around the world use the SAT to make university admission decisions.
SAT scores are just one of many factors that colleges consider when making their admission decisions. High school grades and extra-curricular achievements are also very important. AISV provides guidance counseling to high school students to help them with college planning and placement, writing a college application essay, testing, and also provides interventional assistance for students who are in need of academic help.
In order to review how well we could serve your children, a current high school transcript of the coursework completed to date would be very helpful to review. If you require any further information about Gr. 11 and 12 program, please contact AISV Director director@aisvilnius.lt
Please take a look at the following website to review AP program and recognition worldwide http://www.collegeboard.com/
Please read about AISV Graduation requirements on the next section.
We are very proud that out of our first 8 seniors, who graduated AISV in June 2011, seven will continue with studies in universities and 1 will enter the workforce. Our students were accepted to the following universities:
