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The primary commitment of the Colegio Luso Internacional do Porto is 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 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 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 premise that students can and should learn from each other's and that they must shoulder the greatest responsibility for their education.

4. Diversity and Crosss 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.

A. Target population

The population of the Colegio Luso Internacional do Porto will include students:
(1) Born in Portugal;
(2) Born in other countries but residing in Portugal,
(3) Born in other countries of Portuguese parents who have returned to Portugal.
Major countries of origin: The Netherlands, Japan, France, United Kingdom, United States, Germany, Sweden, Belgium.

B. General structure

The Colegio Luso Internacional do Porto will have two major components:

1. the Elementary program, divided into
a. Primary School: grades K-4
b. Middle School: Grades 5-6

2. the High school divided into
a. Junior High: grades 7-9
b. Senior High: grades 10-12, with two programs:
1. International Baccalaureate Program
2. Professional Program: International BusinessAdministration.

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