PERSONAL AWARENESS AND RESPONSIBILITY and SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY COMPETENCIES - The Curriculum
Even the Cookie Monster practices Whole Body Listening!
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Woven throughout BC's curriculum are personal and social competencies. These competencies are foundational to fostering individual student confidence and growth as well as creating a caring and dynamic classroom and school community. The year begins with considerable emphasis on learning about each other as well as classroom and school routines and expectations which are the framework for developing these competencies.
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- Positive Personal and Cultural Identity (Excerpt): A positive personal and cultural identity is the awareness, understanding, and appreciation of all the facets that contribute to a healthy sense of oneself. It includes awareness and understanding of one’s family background, heritage(s), language(s), beliefs, and perspectives in a pluralistic society. For an elaboration of this excerpt, please click on this link.
- Personal Awareness and Responsibility (Excerpt): Personal awareness and responsibility includes the skills, strategies, and dispositions that help students to stay healthy and active, set goals, monitor progress, regulate emotions, respect their own rights and the rights of others, manage stress, and persevere in difficult situations. For an elaboration of this excerpt, please click on this link.
- Social Responsibility (Excerpt): Social responsibility involves the ability and disposition to consider the interdependence of people with each other and the natural environment; to contribute positively to one’s family, community, society, and the environment; to resolve problems peacefully; to empathize with others and appreciate their perspectives; and to create and maintain healthy relationships. For an elaboration of this excerpt, please click on this link.
PERSONAL AWARENESS AND RESPONSIBILITY
and SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY COMPETENCIES -
Classroom, School, and Community Practices
and SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY COMPETENCIES -
Classroom, School, and Community Practices
Classroom Routines and Expectations Our classroom expectations define who we are as a community: we are kind, we respect one another, we are safe, we work hard, we never give up, and we have fun. They outline how we can expect to be treated as well as how we are expected to treat each other. When we enter our classroom, this is how everything we do is framed by these principles. Throughout the year, we review these guidelines as we aim to build a community rich with fun, respect, and learning.
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The Seven Sacred Teachings
We learn about the animal symbols of the Seven Sacred teachings to explore how the indigenous teachings mirror the principles of our classroom expectations. Throughout the year, resources and cultural educators from the Qualicum First Nation Culture Program help us learn more about love, respect, courage, honesty, wisdom, humility, and truth in Aboriginal, Inuit, and Métis culture.
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Whole Body Listening is a tool that teaches students how to develop the skills to be effective learners. We begin the year with whole class lessons about Whole Body Listening followed by small group or individual lessons for those who need more time, support, and practice to develop these skills.
Our school follows the W.I.T.S. program which provides students with strategies when dealing with peer conflict whether in the classroom or on the playground. We practice these during class and talk about how they are working during recess and lunch breaks.