FILE:  IB

 

INSTRUCTIONAL GOALS

 

 

The focus of the Concordia Parish Schools shall be on the learner, the student.  Each student's educational development toward the school's goals is the central concern of the Board's supervision of the school district.  The teacher is a key figure in carrying out the school's responsibility in the educational process.  However, the teacher alone cannot effectively achieve all the objectives of education.  The purpose of the various administrative departments is to provide conditions in the schools which permit teachers to work with maximum effectiveness and to provide them with a variety of tools and specialized assistance in developing and carrying out a program which will meet the needs of boys and girls in the world in which we live.  The Board shall seek to provide the facilities, personnel, equipment, and materials necessary for the education of all students for whom it is responsible.

 

In accordance with these principles, the Concordia Parish School Board shall provide an educational program that attempts to achieve the following:

 

  1. To help students develop and maintain good physical and mental health.
     

  2. To help students achieve command of the fundamental skills and knowledges which are basic to all other learning.
     

  3. To help students learn to receive and to express ideas effectively.
     

  4. To help students gain an understanding of our constitutional form of government and a knowledge of the history of the United States and of the part the United States plays in world affairs, and to help students accept the obligations of good citizenship.
     

  5. To help students understand the scientific approach to the problems of life, recognizing the need for conservation of human and natural resources and the contributions made by science to the world in which we live.
     

  6. To help students acquire salable skills in the fields of their choice which will enable them to take their place in the economic world.
     

  7. To help students become intelligent consumers of material goods, cultural products, and services.
     

  8. To help students develop avocational interests which are satisfying and which provide for worthy use of leisure time.
     

  9. To help students' spiritual understanding, and to learn to recognize the ethical, aesthetic, and moral values of experience, and to act accordingly.

 

 

Concordia Parish School Board