Honors Options

What are Honors options? 

The “honors options” approach has been an effective way to challenge advanced learners. In a mixed-ability level classroom, students have the option within each unit to choose the “degree of difficulty” of their experience. All students will master the basic standards, but those who choose the honors option will often be challenged to apply their learning in extraordinary ways, engage in projects that extend their learning, and/or be assessed in a more rigorous way to demonstrate a higher level of proficiency based on the standards for the unit.

Honors options will not be depicted on transcripts. This was phased out is because of a lack of consistency from class to class on what constituted sufficient evidence that honors-level work was completed. In one class it may have meant completing one additional project, whereas in another it may have meant completing assessments with a more rigorous Depth of Knowledge every time.