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EDUCATION PLAN
The Core Competencies are sets of intellectual, personal, and social and emotional proficiencies that all students need to engage in deep, lifelong learning. Along with literacy and numeracy foundations, they are central to British Columbia’s K-12 Curriculum and assessment system and directly support students in their growth as educated citizens.
Students develop Core Competencies when they are engaged in the “doing” – the Curricular Competencies – within a learning area. As such, they are an integral part of the curriculum. While they manifest themselves uniquely in each area of learning, the Core Competencies are often interconnected and are foundational to all learning.
Before students enter school, development of Core Competencies begins at home and then continues throughout their life. Students encounter opportunities to develop their competence in formal and informal settings. They move from demonstrating competence in relatively simple and highly supported situations, to demonstrating independence in more complex and varied contexts. Competency development does not end with school graduation but continues in personal, social, educational and workplace contexts.
Students, teachers, and parents/guardians share responsibility for the ongoing development of Core Competencies. Each group has its own considerations.
COMMUNICATION
The Communication competency encompasses the knowledge, skills, processes and dispositions we associate with interactions with others. Through their communication, students acquire, develop and transform ideas and information and make connections with others to share their ideas, express their individuality, further their learning and get things done. The communication competency is fundamental to finding satisfaction, purpose and joy.
THINKING
The Thinking competency encompasses the knowledge, skills and processes we associate with intellectual development. It is through their competency as thinkers that students take subject-specific concepts and content and transform them into a new understanding. Thinking competence includes specific thinking skills as well as habits of mind and metacognitive awareness. These are used to process information from a variety of sources, including thoughts and feelings that arise from the subconscious and unconscious mind and from embodied cognition to create new understandings.
PERSONAL & SOCIAL
The Personal and Social competency is the set of abilities that relate to students' identity in the world, both as individuals and as members of their community and society. Personal and social competency encompasses what students need to thrive as individuals, to understand and care about themselves and others and to find and achieve their purposes in the world.
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REQUIREMENTS
The above table is a sum of the credits obtained by the courses offered by SKY Secondary School by each grade and it is categorized by required course credits and elective course credits.
Graduation Checklist (Required Courses for Graduation)