Redwood Christian Schools Expected School-wide Learning Results (ESLR)

ESLR I - ACTIVE LEARNERS

RCS students will be Active Learners who approach learning as a thinking activity and assume personal responsibility to remember and apply what is presented in school.  They will be taught to:

• Use and manage time by organizing priorities, and setting and attaining goals
• Identify similarities and differences
• Ask their own questions and locate their own answers
• Properly use resources
• Listen and take effective notes
• Read, summarize and study written text
• Create metaphors and analogies to aid with memorization
• Remember and transfer knowledge to different contexts
• Apply the truth of God's Word in their daily lives
  

ESLR II - RESPONSIBLE AND RESPECTFUL CITIZENS

RCS students will be Responsible and Respectful Citizens who treat others as they, themselves, wish to be treated.  They will be taught to:

• Demonstrate respect for authority
• Accept personal, social and civic responsibility
• Contribute their time and talents to improve the quality of life in their sphere of influence
• Model responsible citizenship marked by kindness, integrity, compassion, and Biblical ethics
  

ESLR III - CRITICAL AND CREATIVE THINKERS

RCS students will be Critical and Creative Thinkers who approach the world with intellectual curiosity and solve problems using a Biblical Worldview.  They will be tahght to:

• Identify, locate and organize information and turn this into understanding
• Apply, analyze, synthesize, and evaluate ideas when solving problems
• Investigate meaning beyond the obvious
• Identify fact and opinion
• Determine the validity of sources
• Evaluate information from a Biblical Worldview
• Manage complexity by planning and prioitizing
• Demonstrate problem-solving skills in real life situations
• Design creative and contextually appropriate presentations of the Gospel
  

ESLR IV - SPIRITUALLY GROWING

RCS students will be challenged to be Spiritually Growing through service to Jesus Christ.  They will be taught to:

• Accept that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and He wants to be involved in a personal relationsip as their Lord and Savior
• Demonstrate God's love, will and authority in their lives through service to others
• Develop spiritual gifts through involvement in ministry activities
• Share God's truth with those around them, through both word and deed
• Respect the dignity and sanctity of all human life

ESLR V - EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATORS

RCS Students will be Effective Communicators, able to express their ideas through various media, characterized by a clear sense of meaning, purpose and audience.  They will be taught to: 

• Conduct research using appropriate technology
• Summarize reflectively
• Document sources
• Evaluate critically
• Identify the main purpose/point
• Explain the difference between fact and opinion
• Communicate the Gospel