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Character & Leadership (Beta)

CL2.1.a. Acquire, remember knowledge

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Students demonstrate the ability to acquire, recall, and retain basic and complex forms of information enabling them to: 1) Remember facts, lists, procedures and methods (e.g., the correct spelling of words, the boiling point of water, benefits of a good education, and the formula for determining volume). 2) Correctly identify and label (e.g., name shapes, identify from multiple options the correct statement of Aristotle’s Golden Mean). 3) Develop a substantial vocabulary and correctly state definitions of terms, the content of theories and wording of rules (e.g., define a hypotenuse, state rules of grammar).

CL1.1. Motivated and committed learners

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Students value education and are eager, committed learners who: 1) love learning as a source of personal enjoyment and growth; 2) believe that learning and education will enrich and improve their personal lives; and 3) are motivated to do well in school, graduate, and seek higher educational opportunities.

CL2.1.b. Understand knowledge

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Students demonstrate the ability to understand (i.e., comprehend) the meaning and significance of facts, assertions, ideas, concepts, and theories acquired by listening, through experiential learning or by reading expository (e.g., essays, editorials, science textbooks) or literary (novels, plays poems) writings. They demonstrate understanding by: 1) Restating, paraphrasing, explaining, and summarizing facts, definitions, methods, rules, theories, and concepts. 2) Preparing and delivering explanatory and persuasive arguments and presentations. 3) Drawing distinctions and perceiving differences and similarities (i.e., comparing and contrasting). 4) Understanding the literal meaning and the implications of information conveyed in all forms of nonfiction writings (e.g., textbooks, diagrams, graphs, bus schedules, instruction manuals, schematics, and blueprints). 5) Interpreting the literal and symbolic meaning of various forms of literary writing. 6) Illustrating or simplifying information with pictures, diagrams, charts, and graphs. 7) Translating quantitative written statements verbal material to mathematical equations or visual representations (and vice versa).

CL1.1.a. Curiosity

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Students demonstrate curiosity and an eagerness to learn new things about themselves, others, and the world around them. They seek answers by asking questions, reading, researching, exploring, experiencing, and experimenting.