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Valencia's Student Core Competencies:
Think, Value, Communicate, Act

Competency

Valencia educators will facilitate student growth in thinking critically and creatively across different contexts and domains of human understanding; communicating effectively in different modes and across different settings; articulating and applying personal values and those of the various disciplines and  appreciating the values of others; and applying learning and understanding effectively and responsibly in their lives as students and educated adults.


Indicators

  • engage students in construction of knowledge (through guided research projects or other applications of the discipline's procedures for creating knowledge)
  • facilitate the discovery and use of the ways of knowing in discipline
  • align course, library, or counseling outcomes and learning activities with core competencies
  • design assignments and assessments that demonstrate student growth in the core competencies
  • document student growth in the core competencies
  • collaborate with colleagues and dean to assure and demonstrate progression of student learning across courses and programs
     

Indicators provide examples of how competencies can be demonstrated in an Individualized Learning Plan. While all competencies need to be demonstrated, only some  indicators need to be employed in the ILP process.

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