102-AR. Educational Goals

Self-worth: Each student shall be assisted to fully develop capabilities, talents, self-understanding and a feeling of self-worth and shall be acknowledged for effort and achievement.

Information and Thinking Skills: Each student shall develop the skills necessary to locate and manage information, solve problems and make decisions, including the processes of analysis, synthesis, creativity and evaluation.

Learning Independently and Collaboratively: Each student shall be motivated to become an independent life-long learner and shall have planned opportunities to collaborate with others in developing knowledge, skills and new ideas.

Adaptability To Change: Each student shall be helped to grow and develop in a world in which change is normal and constant.

Ethical Judgment: Each student shall learn the importance of making ethical judgments in society with the quality school providing experience in the ways in which adults and children interact with each other for the common good.

Communications: Each student shall become proficient in reading, composition, listening, speech, understanding, interpreting, analyzing and synthesizing information.

Mathematics: Each student shall become proficient in the use of varied mathematical processes and applications to solve challenging problems and to create new ways of understanding information.

Science and Technology: Each student shall become proficient in applying the processes of analysis, synthesis and evaluation to the solution of challenging scientific problems and in the application and understanding of technology in society.

Environment and Ecology: Each student shall understand the environment and the student's ecological relationship with it in order to recognize the importance of the quality of life in a healthy and balanced environment.

Citizenship: Each student shall understand local, State and United States history, geography, systems of government and economics and their relationship to the history, geography, systems of government
and economics of other countries in the world and shall acquire and have opportunities to practice, in the school and in the community, the skills and attitudes necessary for active participation in civic life.

Appreciating and Understanding Others: Each student shall gain knowledge of various cultures in order to foster an appreciation of the dignity, worth, contributions and equal rights of all people.

Arts and Humanities: Each student shall understand and appreciate the breadth of human accomplishment through the arts and humanities and shall have opportunities to practice creativity of thought and action and to demonstrate talent in the arts.

Career Education and Work: Each student shall explore varied career options and develop skills and work habits needed to be a productive, contributing member of society and the understanding that life-long learning is necessary to maintain those behaviors, skills and attitudes.

Wellness and Fitness: Each student shall acquire and use the knowledge and skills necessary to promote individual, family and community health and wellness.