Effective Citizenship Outcome

Preparation for, and participation in, Citizenship must form an important part of the development of all young adults through education for life and the challenges that it brings. Opportunities will be provided to develop and demonstrate the knowledge, skills and understanding that reflect the ways in which young adults engage with society through some of the roles they play. For example: Community members, Consumers, Family members, Lifelong learners, Taxpayers, Voters, Workers.

Level 1 - Social responsibility
At level one, students are expected to communicate a recognition of their own cultural values, assumptions, and knowledge and demonstrate socially responsible behavior both in and beyond the classroom.
  1. Accept and respect diversity.
  2. Reflect upon ways that your behavior affects others.
  3. Help others and allow others to help you.
Level 2 - Community awareness
At this level, a student can demonstrate strategies to become involved in issues and/or concerns of one’s neighborhood and communities, including learning through community involvement and service to the community.
  1. Embrace the concepts of representative democracy, legal rights, and ethical responsibility.
  2. Understand community issues, their history and contemporary relevance.
  3. Track issues in the media and research issues in the community.
  4. Attend, report and reflect on meetings and hearings.
Level 3 - Political literacy
At level three, a student can relate course concepts to the institutions, problems and practices of our democracy and how to make oneself effective in the life of the locality, region and through skills and values as well as knowledge. A student can demonstrate an understanding of the influences and implications of diversity and interconnectedness in regions, communities and groups.
  1. Learn how to access information about various issues; judge the reliability of information and their sources; learn about point of view and bias.
  2. Reach varying degrees of political awareness and advocacy, including identifying, describing, evaluating, and defending a position.
  3. Determine ways to alter public policy by collaborating, building coalitions, compromising and seeking consensus.
Level 4 - Apply Citizenship skills and knowledge in a community setting
At level four, students apply the skills of inquiry, communication, participation, responsible action and demonstrate the ability to draw upon varied perspectives and personal reflection as they are related to course content and to learning about and becoming informed and interested citizens. This will be achieved through creating links between pupils’ learning in the classroom and activities that take place across the school, in the community and in the wider world.
  1. Engage in an active process such as exhibiting stewardship by being responsible for one’s community.
  2. Seek and propose new initiatives to address community needs.
  3. Participate in cooperative activities in which groups of students and community members work together to pursue a common goal such as a public issue or community problem.