Learning-to-Learn Skills

  • Students make a commitment to creating quality work and striving for excellence.
  • Students use a variety of learning strategies, personal skills, and time management skills to enhance learning.
  • Students reflect on and evaluate their learning for the purpose of improvement.

 

Expanding and Integrating Knowledge

  • Students connect knowledge and experiences from different subject areas.
  • Students use what they already know to acquire new knowledge, develop new skills, and expand understanding.
  • Students demonstrate integrated knowledge and skills in applying multi-disciplinary approaches to solve problems or completing tasks.

 

Communication Skills

  • Students communicate with clarity, purpose, and understanding of their audience.
  • Students integrate the use of a variety of communication forms and use a wide range of communication skills.
  • Students recognize, analyze and evaluate various forms of communication.

 

Thinking and Reasoning Skills

  • Students gather and use information effectively to gain new information and knowledge, classify and organize information, support inferences, and justify conclusions appropriate to the context and audience.
  • Students utilize, evaluate and refine the use of multiple strategies to solve a variety of types of problems.
  • Students generate new and creative ideas by taking considered risks in a variety of contexts.

 

Interpersonal Skills

  • Students work with others in a variety of situations to set and achieve goals.
  • Students manage and evaluate their behavior as group members.
  • Students deal with disagreement and conflict caused by diversity of opinions and beliefs.

 

Personal and Social Responsibility

  • Students take responsibility for personal actions and act ethically.
  • Students respect themselves and others, and understand and appreciate the diversity and interdependence of all people.
  • Students demonstrate an understanding of and responsibility for global and environmental issues.
  • Students act as responsible citizens in the community, state and nation.

 

Spiritual Life

  • Students know and understand that they are a unique and special creation of God created in His image.
  • Students know and understand that all mankind has sinned and fallen short of God’s glory.
  • Students know and understand that Jesus died on the cross and rose again so that we could be forgiven of and free from our sin and sin’s penalty.
  • Students know and understand that if we confess with our mouths the Lord Jesus and believe in our hearts that God has raised Him from the dead then we will be saved through His resurrection power.
  • Students know and understand that the Bible is the God breathed and infallible Word of God inspired by God Himself and given to men chosen by God to write down under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit.
  • Students have a sincere desire to develop an intimate knowledge of and relationship with God through daily Bible reading, prayer, and meditation on God.
  • Students have a desire to live a pure, ethical, and holy life in accordance with the Biblical principles that God has outlined in His Word.
  • Students know and understand God’s command to go and make disciples of all nations through the sharing of their faith in Jesus Christ and their testimony of a life changed by God’s mighty hand.
  • Students know and understand that God has a perfect plan for each individual and wants to fulfill that plan in our lives as we willingly trust in and follow Him.