Thinking and Reasoning Skills Sample Clauses

Thinking and Reasoning Skills. Students will utilize, evaluate, and refine the use of multiple strategies to solve a variety of problems.

Thinking and Reasoning Skills. Students will utilize, evaluate, and refine the use of multiple strategies to solve a variety of problems. Social Responsibility and Skills Students will deal with disagreement and conflict caused by diversity of opinions and beliefs. Students will evaluate and manage their behavior as group members. Students will participate in community service that reflects responsible citizens in a democratic society. Measurement Victory Charter School learners are exposed to some traditional examination methods. As required by the Charter, student performance is assessed relative to other learners of the same age, grade, through district, state and national testing. At the beginning of each year, all Victory Charter School students will be given a baseline assessment during the first three weeks of school. Kindergarten through second grade will be tested on the Metropolitan. Third through eighth grade students will be tested on the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills. Students as a group will: • Meet the statewide performance standards adopted by the Idaho State Board of Education. These standards include the subjects of Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies and Physical Education; • Achieve in the top quartile of the school’s relative rank in all aspects of the following assessments: Direct Write Assessment (State) - Grades 4, 8, 11 Direct Math Assessment (State) - Grades 4, 8, 11 Metropolitan Reading and Math - Grades 1 & 2; Waterford Testing, Kindergarten - Grade 3; Idaho Reading Assessment – Grades K – 3, Idaho Standards Achievement Test (ISAT) – Grades 2-10 Reading as a Discipline. • Achieve State Board of Education and State Department of Education developed standards for age levels, content areas and outcomes. These standards will be measured by student products, performances, exhibitions and tests that are directly related to locally developed expectations, such as the Math Exit Test and any future tests developed by the State Board of Education and State Department of Education, as well as any new state assessments developed in the future. • We will meet the goals identified in this Charter petition when students demonstrate the following; ▪ Score in the top quartile on standardized tests on the national, state, or district levels after a period of two consecutive academic years at Victory Charter School; ▪ Reading at grade level by 3rd grade; ▪ Computing math at grade level by 3rd grade; ▪ Student absenteeism is less than 4%; ▪ Student tardies are less ...