Throughout the year, the Board of Education monitors student
performance in HSSD Graduate Profile seven characteristics. At the
December 9, 2019 Board meeting, we discussed the characteristic collaborator
and progress being made to develop our students as helpful and active
participants who share responsibility while working toward a common goal.
Students have many opportunities to collaborate and be part of teams in
classrooms, in music, physical education, and art, in athletics, and in a
variety of extra-curricular activities. Through these experiences, they grow in
their abilities to collaborate with their peers, as well as adults.
Students learn to respect and encourage others, to adapt to changes, and to be
reliable teammates. We talked with teachers from multiple grade levels
successfully integrating technology into lessons and engaging students in
becoming active and social learners, through co-use. When co-using a device, students are working
with others to figure out how to navigate the content learning within the
software, which can lead to higher-order questioning, predicting, inquiry, and
other cognitive benefits from this social construction of knowledge.
Seeing our students
intentionally developing HSSD Graduate Profile characteristics is exciting and
rewarding because we know they are being prepared to thrive in our complex and
rapidly changing world. For more information about the Howard-Suamico
School District, please visit our website at www.hssdschools.org, or for
additional information regarding this article, contact school board member Jeff
Eilers at jeffeile@hssdschools.org
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