A Portrait of a Graduate for Diverse Learners and Communities

01/18/2024

Schools can contribute to their students problem solving skills by including problem solving in trainings to provide teachers with the ability to teach students problem solving skills.

Families/Caregivers can support the students problem solving by encouraging students to use problem solving skills at home during day-to-day issues.

Community members can contribute to students problem solving skills by including these skills in curriculum for the district(region), ensuring students will be taught problem solving skills.

Schools can contribute to students collaboration skills by encouraging teachers to utilize collaboration strategies during class time, such as small group work.

Families and caregivers can contribute to developing collaboration at home by discussing issues/decisions as a family.

Community members can engage developing collaboration skills by encouraging educators to use collaborative group work at schools and in curriculums.

Schools can contribute to technology skills an digital literacy by enforcing educational programs on technological devices (tablets, computers).

Families/ caregivers can help develop students technology skill and digital literacy by ensuring students have accessibility to technology devices, whether at home or a public library students can practice using digital devices.

Community member can help develop students technology skills by helping students in their community have access to digital devices by allocating funds to school devices.

Schools can help develop students social skills by encouraging students to join an afterschool program in order to participate in social gatherings.

Families and caregivers can contribute to developing social skills by taking their children to places where they can socialize, like parks and family gatherings.

Community members can contribute to students developing social skills by ensuring schools have afterschool programs/groups so that our students may have the opportunity to socialize and develop socializing skills.

Schools can contribute to developing students critical thinking skills by implementing collaborative group work in their curriculum, peer interaction (group projects/debates) will help students the ability to think critically.

Families can contribute the students critical thinking skills by encouraging them to question everything. Allowing the students to explore their curiosity and ask a lot of questions will give them opportunity to critically think about the answers.

Community members can contribute to students critical thinking skills by offering diverse perspectives. Our communities are al different, having students getting to know different member of their community will expose them to different perspectives.

Schools can contribute to their students literacy skills by offering reading rewards. Encouraging students to read by offering rewards can highly benefit their literacy skills.

Families can contribute to the students literacy skills by encouraging students to choose their own books. When reading at home, it is important for students to enjoy what they are reading. Enjoying what they are reading will encourage students to continue reading, thus improving their literacy skills.

Community members can contribute to students literacy skills by hosting a book recommendation event. Coordinating an event where both students and staff can share their favorite books and discuss them as a group, will encourage students to read outside of a school environment, leading to better literacy skills.

I will continue to reinforce these six competencies throughout the year. Each week I base my lessons on a theme, and within that theme whenever possible I will refer to competencies. For example; when my students go to the library work station(center), I will review the literacy skills competency.