• ACADEMIC DEVELOPMENT DOMAIN

    Standard

    Competency

    Indicators

    K-2

    3-5

    6-8

    A. Students will acquire the attitudes, knowledge and skills that contribute to effective learning in school and across life span.

     

    A:A1

    Improve Academic Self-concept

    Display a positive interest in learning.

     

    Take pride in work and achievement.

    Articulate feelings of competence and confidence as learners.

     

    Accept mistakes as essential to the learning process.

    Identify attitudes and behaviors leading to successful learning.

     

     

    A:A2

    Acquire Skills for Improving Learning

    Use communication skills to know when and how to ask for help when needed.

    Demonstrate how effort and persistence positively affect learning.

    Apply time-management and task-management skills.

     

    Apply knowledge and learning styles to positively influence school performance.

     

     

     

    A:A3

    Achieve School Success

    Take responsibility for their actions.

    Demonstrate the ability to work independently, as well as the ability to work cooperatively with other students.

     

    Demonstrate depend- ability, productivity, and initiative.

     

    Share knowledge.

    Develop a broad range of interests and abilities.

    B. Students will complete school with the academic preparation essential to choose from a wide range of substantial post- secondary options, including college

     

     

     

     

    A:B1

    Improve Learning

    Apply the study skills necessary for academic success at each level.

    Demonstrate the motivation to achieve individual potential.

     

    Learn and apply critical thinking skills.

     

    Become a self-directed and independent learner.

    Seek information and support from faculty, staff, family and peers.

     

    Organize and apply academic information from a variety of sources.

     

    Use knowledge of learning styles to positively influence school performance.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    A:B2

    Plan to Achieve

    Goals

    Understand the relation-ship between classroom performance and success in school.

    Establish challenging academic goals in elementary, middle/ junior high and high school.

    Establish challenging academic goals in elementary, middle/ junior high and high school.

     

    Use assessment results in educational planning.

     

    Develop and implement annual plan of study to maximize academic ability and achievement.

     

    Apply knowledge of aptitudes and interests to goal-setting.

     

    Use problem-solving and decision-making skills to assess progress toward educational goals.

     

    Identify postsecondary options consistent with interests, achievement, aptitude and abilities.

     

    C. Students will understand the relationship of aca- demics to the world of work and to life at home and in the community.

     

     

     

    A:C1

    Relate

    School to Life Experience

    Understand the relationship between learning and work.

    Demonstrate the ability to balance school, leisure time and family life.

     

    Understand how school success and academic achievement enhance future career and vocational opportunities.

    Seek co-curricular and community experiences to enhance school experience.

     

    Demonstrate an under- standing of the value of lifelong learning as essential to seeking, obtaining and maintaining life goals.

     

    Understand how school success and academic achievement enhance future career and vocational opportunities.