Staff (Collaboration)

• Taps into individual's strengths and resources
• Consistency within level and school
• Facilitates teacher learning
• Group responsibilities for success/needs
• Lends to group reflection/idea sharing
• Promotes divergent thinking
• Creative problem solving

Literature Based

• Literature incorporated into all subject areas
• Emphasis on exposure to good literature
• Responding to literature in a variety of ways
• Encourage love of literature for life
• Means having a well stocked library and resources available to children at all times
• Library is the cornerstone of the school.

Portfolios

• A progressive process that demonstrates growth over an extended period of time
• Empowers the learner and makes sure that everyone is successful
• Responsibility for learning is with the child
• Accommodates individual needs
• More in depth explanation of curricular areas
• Demonstrates what the student can do in relation to the curriculum
• Concrete examples of areas of growth - goal setting - developing individual learning program
• Provides a context for the learning environment
• Provides for open and constructive dialogue between parents and teachers and students - a partnership in learning.

Goal Setting

• Goal setting is collaborative
• Academic goals based on curriculum
• Social goals based on societal needs
• Goal-setting is ongoing process
• Goals are re-evaluated
• Formal and informal
• Makes students responsible for learning.