Curriculum
Mahidol Wittayanusorn School develops its own curriculum based on the requirements of the national Curriculum of Basic Education, and conducts revisions triennially. The three curricula the school has made are 2002 curriculum, 2005 curriculum, and 2009 curriculum. Each of them is constructed based on the school's duty to nurture the talented students and suggestions from students, parents, teachers, school counselors and others involved. The significant change from 2005 to 2009 curriculum is the expansion of the varieties of elective subjects and the introduction of the subject Scientific Inquiry and Nature of Science, which familiarizes new students with scientific experiments and eays of thinking.
As a boarding school, learning activities are extended to outside the classroom. Extracurricular activities, including one student science project under close mentorship and supervision of professors from universities, are specified as requirements for graduation. Other requirements focus on the academics, such as attending guest lectures, finishing certain readings, participating in educational trips and camps, and those focused on social aspects, such as volunteering for the school and neighborhood, exercising, and organizing camps for underserved children in the rural and suburban area. Moreover, the school expects students to learn and practice Thai traditional dance. The first principal of the school in its present form, Dr Thongchai Chewprecha, informally asked every student to perform a Thai traditional dance in MWIT Science Fair in order to manifest their cultural awareness.
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