The purpose of Watershed’s Foundational Skills program is to enhance our practice, as students and teachers, in developing a foundation of readiness for more advanced work.

 

Watershed teachers have developed a list of basic and valued fundamental skills. For the most part these skills are cross-disciplinary and can be employed in many pursuits, academic or otherwise. We recognize that these skills represent a baseline and that content knowledge and additional skill development are important.   

 

Students will be asked to document their skill development by maintaining a portfolio (described below) of exemplary work. Our intent is that most students will provide evidence in each skill area demonstrating that they have met or exceeded the standard by the end of 10th grade. Some students may require more time.  

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-Description of foundational skills on the Watershed website

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                is a rubric of a self evaluation of my development of my skills