Section 2: Academic Disciplines

Education

E1 Identify and appreciate cultural and linguistic factors affecting student adjustment, development, and learning.

E2 Demonstrate knowledge of core subjects and ability to teach them according to appropriate developmental level.

E3 Understand other cultures orientations to education and school, and how to foster better relationships with students, their families and their communities.

E4 Demonstrate cultural competency and ability to teach a multi-cultural student body.

E5 Understand the methods and practice of Literacy Assessment for the primary levels.

E6 Develop strategies for assessment, curriculum development, and instruction to help all students learn.

Sustainability

S1 Broad-based understanding of ecological, socio-cultural, and philosophical foundations of sustainability education, bio-cultural diversity, political ecology, and social justice issues.

S2 Development and implementation of an onsite school garden that operates in accordance with the Permaculture ethics.

S3 Demonstrate knowledge through participation in local foods movement.

S4 Explore, in-depth, methods of whole systems design, advanced pattern literacy, biomimicry, appropriate technology, energy systems, land use philosophy and practice, and education and teaching methods in permaculture.

S5 Fundamental understanding of the Earth systems and their interconnectedness.

S6 Outdoor photography as a documentary tool for education.



Cultural and Historical Studies

CHS 1 Understanding of the effects of globalization on the diverse cultural values of people of different ethnic and class identities in area of the world outside the West.

CHS 2 Explore representations of race and class in historical, sociopolitical or literary context.

CHS 3 Analyze the cultural roots of perceptions about nature and how such social institutions as economic systems, language, or religion have shaped human interactions with the natural world.