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Curriculum

Learning at Newgen Leadership School — connecting reading and experience, practice and participation.

Curriculum Operation

Basic Direction

Basic direction: aptitude-based curriculum redesign, classes (learning-centered), assessment (absolute, observation) and records (portfolio) cycle around the Creative Intellect 4-Text.Career &Aptitude-BasedCurriculumClasses(Learning-Centered)Records(Portfolio)Assessment(Absolute &Observation)CreativeIntellect4-Text

Core Activities

Learning Area

Inquiry-Centered Curriculum

  • Thousand-Book Reading & Discussion
  • Self-Directed Learning for Real Achievement
  • K-Leadership Project Classes
  • Global Education

Growing Area

Experience-Centered Curriculum

  • One Art per Student: Culture & Arts
  • Village-Based Learning
  • Donated-Talent Experience Programs
  • Lifetime Sports

Filling Area

Practice-Centered Curriculum

  • Find-My-Dream Career Education
  • Environmental & Eco-Farming Education
  • Economy & Resource Maker Education
  • 365 Safety-First Education

Sharing Area

Participation-Centered Curriculum

  • Civic Education
  • Democratic Student Council
  • ESG & Eco-Plogging
  • Beyond-the-Fence Community Education

4-UM: A practice-based curriculum in four areas — Learning, Growing, Filling and Sharing — designed to develop intellectual growth and practical ability in balance.

Creative Intellect Curriculum

4-Text

Creative Intellect Education: achieving creativity through intellectual education

Goal: Creativity

  • Scientific insight▶ Intuition, imagination
  • Original problem finding & solving▶ Planning, production, creation
  • Civic values & life skills▶ Social character
4-Text: centered on 1 the intellectual tradition of humanity (human heritage 1), overlapping 2 literary cultivation (human heritage 2), 3 experience, experiment and making (experiential knowledge), and 4 social practice (identity and responsibility).4Social Practice[Identity & Responsibility]2LiteraryCultivation[Human Heritage 2]3Experience,Experiment & Making[Experiential Knowledge]1Humanity'sIntellectual Tradition[Human Heritage 1]

Method: Intellectual Education (Critical Thinking)

  1. Presentation
  2. Writing / Creating
  3. Discussion
  4. Thinking
  5. Text Reading

4-Text: Aiming at ‘achieving creativity through intellectual education,’ this curriculum lets students learn four connected areas of text in stages — from the intellectual heritage humanity has built up to practice in everyday life.

A New Curriculum Reviving the Meaning of Reading and Experience

Subject-linked reading list of great books by theme

Reading resources lead to new classes through alternative textbooks and related articles.ReadingResourcesAlt. TextbooksRelated Articles

New ClassesLearning-Centered

  • Checking content
  • Questions & ideas
  • Thinking & expression
  • Discussion & rethinking
  • Setting new tasks

Creative Activities

  • Diverse experiential programs
  • Diverse social-practice programs
  • Culture & arts appreciation network and capacity building

Regional Curriculum Development

K-Leadership

Admiral Yi Sun-sin Project / Pastor Son Yang-won Project

A student showing activity materials to village childrenStudents performing on stage
Students taking part in a broadcast at a radio studioStudents performing at a forest healing concert

Academic Schedule

2026 Academic Calendar

  • 1st Semester 99 days
  • Summer Session 10 days
  • 2nd Semester 80 days
  • Winter Session 24 days
  • Total School Days 213 days

March 2026

March 2026

School days 21 days

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School events

March Events

  • 1 (Sun)Independence Movement Day
  • 2 (Mon)Substitute Holiday
  • 3 (Tue)Opening Ceremony

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