This activity should take at least two full advisories, but could extend for several advisories depending upon you level of processing. Please ask students to take this seriously. NEASC will expect that students are familiar with the mission statement of the school and that it represents what we do.
#1 Please ask the students if they know what a mission statement does or is intended to do. Record the answers. Then give the Webster definition : A summary describing the aims, values and overall plan of an organization or individual.
#2. Ask students if they have any idea what the TVHS mission statement says. Record comments.
#3 Please hand out a copy of the TVHS Mission Statement and have students read the statement silently, and then aloud as a group.
#4. Please have students respond on paper to the following questions :
Questions about Mission Statement
1. What do you think a “student centered learning environment” means ?
2. Where do you see elements of a student centered learning environment at TVHS ?
3. Are there other ways in which we could promote an environment that is more student centered ?
4. What are your unique gifts ?
5. In what ways are those gifts encouraged at TVHS ?
6. What does it mean to be a partner in education with teachers and parents
?
7. What could you do to further that partnership ?
8. What kinds of things would a socially responsible person do ?
9. In what ways does TVHS prepare you for that role ?
10. Of the following six traits, which do you think TVHS does the best
at fostering : scholarship, creativity, self-discipline, independent thinking,
accountability, or respect Why do you think that is so ?
11. Of those six, which do we need to work on the most as a school ? Why
?
12. What would personal success as a thirty year old look like to you ?