Key Characteristic 4: Growth in Learning

STANDARD # 28

With support, learners pursue individual goals including the acquisition of academic and non- academic skills important for their educational futures and careers.

Elements

Professional staff members engage with learners to help them recognize their talents and potential, and to identify meaningful, attainable goals that support academic, career, personal, and social skills.
Learners choose activities and monitor their own progress, demonstrating active ownership of their stated goals.

Evidence

Evidence 1: Endowment (https://www.mntamilschool.org/mnts-scholarship/) section lists the 47 total students attaining MN Seal of Bi-literacy from 2016. Teacher and Academic council groom every student towards attainment of any one of the 3 levels of proficiency awarded in state of MN. The placement of levels is intuitively tailored irrespective of the time of starting of their Tamil language learning so that they can follow an achievable target of 3 levels of Bilingual Seal during 10th or 11th grades. Based on the proficiency, Learners are offered counsel for them to choose when to appear for the bilingual assessments during their 10th, 11th OR 12th grade, before their high school graduation.

Evidence 2: Assessment methodology (https://www.mntamilschool.org/grading/) provides a strong framework for the students to understand their proficiency on all 4 LSRW skills and clearly recognize the skills requiring additional focus. Through this learners collaborate with teachers and engage in the focused learning efforts to advance their proficiency on those specific skills.

Evidence 3: Parents-teachers conference (https://www.mntamilschool.org/parent-handbook/) elaborates on how parents teachers conference is used as a powerful tool for feedback. This medium is used for teachers to share the proficiency levels of the students and for the Parents/students to share the feedback on the curriculum, instruction methodology, tools and process. The assessment and conferences are jointly used in setting the actions plan for students to attain goals that support their academic, career, personal, and social skills.