To provide a rich “challenge-by-choice” experiential learning opportunity, in the culture of the Catholic school, for Grade 7 students that increases their capacity to embrace opportunities for growth and leadership modeled by the example of secondary students, framed around these two questions:
How can the Muskoka Woods experience help students prepare, experience, and reflect on opportunities to embrace growth?
How can the Muskoka Woods experience call students to influence and serve their community by embracing their God-given talents?
The experiential learning cycle is depicted in the figure to the right. Although the “participate-reflect-apply” cycle appears as a three-stage process, it is not a strictly sequential process but rather a dynamic and highly personal one. Three questions – What?, So what?, and Now what? – are associated with each stage of the process, respectively, and help to focus students’ thinking and drive the process, as follows:
Gavin Bolton, 1979 | Towards a Theory of Drama in Education