The Aptos High School community is committed to ongoing support of students in their achievement of these essential skills. We hold ourselves accountable to provide continual assessment of progress towards these goals.
A. Every graduate from AHS will be a critical thinker who can. . .- Demonstrate original thought
- Develop viable solutions to problems
- Develop opinions based on facts and defend their point of view
- Transfer learned skills to new situations
- Identify and evaluate tools and resources, and organize and synthesize information
- Question assumptions, make inferences, predictions, and develop hypotheses
- Modify their performance to attain required results, based on feedback and assessment
- Demonstrate an understanding of concepts
- Listen, speak, read, and write proficiently using standard English
- Speak with confidence interpersonally, within a group, and in making oral presentations
- Present work using a variety of technologies and media
- Contribute effectively in collaborative situations
- Set ambitious and realistic educational, career, and personal goals
- Develop strategies and demonstrate skills necessary to realize one’s goals
- Demonstrate appropriate study and work habits, time and organizational management
- Exhibit self-motivation, self-reflection, self-discipline, and self-evaluation in academic and personal domains, and understands and accepts consequences related to actions
- Demonstrate the practices of sound financial planning and management
- Manage conflict constructively
- Adapt to change
- Utilizes a global perspective
- Practices ethical behavior according to established rules and codes
- Celebrates commonalties and differences
- Understands and participates in the governmental process
- Is environmentally aware and recognizes the interconnectedness of all living things
- Works to improve the quality of his/her life and the lives of others
- Respects self and others
- Demonstrates knowledge of and practices appropriate hygiene and nutrition
- Demonstrates understanding of key risk factors and decisions that affect health
- Demonstrates and practices constructive stress management for mental and emotional wellness
- Accesses and utilizes appropriate health care information and services
- Understands importance of life long fitness
