NATURE OF KNOWLEDGE- NEW
Course#: 982000
Grades: 11, 12
Credit: one
This course is designed for students who want to explore the relationship between the various fields of knowledge and to examine how we learn. Students make connections between their classroom and non-classroom knowledge and experiences by examining four ways of thinking -- analytical, empirical, moral, and aesthetic. Students will develop an understanding of the role of language, logic, sense perception, and emotion in acquiring knowledge in the various fields, including mathematics, natural science, human science, history, arts, and ethics as well as the effect of value judgment, bias, and culture across the disciplines. This course is designed for the student enrolled in 3 or more AP courses during the 2008-09 school year.
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LEADERSHIP TRAINING 1
Course#: 980800
Grades: 9, 10, 11, 12
Credit: one
Prerequisite: Approval of instructor and holding a leadership position in the school.
This course provides leadership training to interested students. It is especially appropriate for student body officers, organizational leaders, and class officers. The course includes understanding leadership, assessment of leadership styles, planning and organization skills, relationship building and problem solving. Focus will be placed on organization, time management, election processes, financial planning, opinion surveys, communication techniques, and community liaison. Student government and class activities will be the basis around which most of the course work is designed. This course is for the student who is in an identified leadership position in the school.
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PEER HELPING I
Course#: 980760
Grades: 11, 12
Credit: one
Prerequisite: Successful completion of the selection procedures including application, recommendations, and interview. Approval by the peer helper program instructors and the Director of Student Services is required.
High School: This course is designed to train students to implement a peer helper program in the high school. The training program is designed to develop students’ interpersonal, support, and leadership skills for assisting other students to grow socially, emotionally, and academically. Students are taught to help other students (elementary and secondary) by learning to be effective listeners, group leaders, and positive role models. The course presents information and training in the following areas of peer helping preparation: verbal and nonverbal communication, self-exploration and self-esteem, listening skills, decision making/problem solving, peer refusal skills, substance abuse prevention, confidentiality and referral procedures. Emphasis is placed on experiential learning, supervised group activities, and skills practice. Students will work with the special education department.
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