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English Language Arts

Based on Common Core Standards, our English Language Arts (ELA) curriculum offers content area with an integrated approach. Using the skills from reading, writing, speaking and listening from various resources, the students will become independent learners. The program outcomes provide broad standards and the grade –specific standards provide additional specificity. Combining the two would help define skills and understandings for all the students to demonstrate by the end of that grade level. It focuses on the transition from learning to read (in grades K-5) to reading to learn (in grades 6-12). Having been integrated with STEM subjects (more in grade 6 and above), it will prepare students to be proficient in reading and interpreting a variety of informational text across the disciplines independently. Each grade level outcome is a standard and an expectation, not a curriculum.

Science

Is based on the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) where students develop an understanding in four content areas: Physical Sciences; Life Sciences; Earth and Space Sciences; and Engineering, Technology and Applications of Science. Beginning by recognizing patterns and formulating answers to questions about world around them, to being able to exhibit proficiency in gathering, describing, and using the information thus gathered is the focus of our SCIENCE curriculum. The performance expectations would then help to explain more complex phenomena as they progress to middle and high school.

The NGSS correlate with the Common Core State Standards of English Language Arts and Mathematics (CCSSM) thus allowing the opportunity for science to be an integral part of student’s education. At the same time, it aligns with the pace of learning in all content areas in a consistent manner without outpacing or misaligning the grade-by-grade standards in the CCSS for literacy and the grade-by-grade standards in the CCSSM. Each grade level outcome is a standard and an expectation, not a curriculum.