FILE:  IB

INSTRUCTIONAL GOALS

The Vermilion Parish School Board is committed to providing an educational program responsive to the needs and abilities of individual students, the community, and society as a whole.  The educational goals of the School Board shall be:

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

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

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

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

8. To help students develop vocational 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, esthetic, and moral values of experience, and to act accordingly.

Setting Educational Objectives

It shall be the responsibility of each building staff under the direction of the principal to have specific educational objectives consistent with the broad educational goals.  The School Board expects to have the staff present evidence of achievement of students in light of the school’s goals and objectives.

Adopted:  August 25, 2016

Ref:    Board minutes, 8-25-16

Vermilion Parish School Board