Life Skills

Middle School

 

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Life Skills

  • Global Awareness– concerted effort to understand, embrace and celebrate diverse regions, cultures, religions, and lifestyles.
  • Civic Literacy– Exercise the rights and obligations of citizenship at the school level. The school operates a civic system that makes all students members of structured units. Opportunities are provided on a weekly basis for the students to compete, share, mentor and arbitrate with each other by participating in the system. It further enables the students to extrapolate and understand governmental and legal processes as it applies in the real world.
  • Social and Cross-Cultural Skills– Communication Skills -Interact effectively with others. Know when it is appropriate to listen and when to speak. Conduct themselves in a respectable, professional manner.

 

Personal Growth

  • Personal Growth– Study Skills – Set goals with tangible and intangible success criteria. Be accountable for results. Utilize your time and manage workload efficiently. Work Independently. Monitor, define, prioritize and complete tasks without direct oversight.
  • Be Self-directed Learners– with the help of student-led conferences. Students are encouraged to reflect on their performance and take their learning further beyond basic mastery of skills and/or curriculum to explore and expand. Demonstrate a commitment to learning as a lifelong process. Reflect critically on past experiences in order to implement a strategy for future progress.