Competencies
Competencies are:
The broad overarching student understandings within each discipline.
The framework for which each learning goal and learning experience are aligned.
The umbrella under which students shape their inquiry questions.
The essential understandings that lead to the complex and conceptual knowledge and skills necessary for the application of learning.
Approaching Understanding: Students are beginning to recognize relevant information, preparing to identify basic ideas, and can repeat what they have heard.
Constructing Understanding: Students can recall pertinent facts, perform simple calculations, describe specific relationships, patterns, and/or events, summarize texts, make predictions given context and clues, and compare and/or classify content.
Applying Understanding: Students can develop arguments and support conclusions with evidence and details, design investigations and use the steps of inquiry to answer complex problems, revise theirs and others’ work, analyze and/or synthesize information to formulate a new more complex understanding, connect new learning with the world and varying disciplines, design experiments and/or evaluate results.
