Post on 24-Dec-2015
Swampscott High School
Global Competency Program
• The Swampscott High Global Competency Program seeks to challenge students to see beyond the horizon of Swampscott and recognize the importance of comprehensive and interdisciplinary studies.
• Our goal is to guide students in a broad, multi-cultural education to make them thoughtful contributors in the world.
• The core component of the program is international awareness.
• Students will be geographically, politically, historically and culturally aware.
• Swampscott High School has added several new electives that support and promote the Global Competency Program.
REQUIREMENTS:• Students must complete a sequence
of a spoken language other than English.
• Students will perform a prescribed amount of community service with a global theme.
• Students will participate in international travel and/or locally global events, or host an international student.
• Students will take a minimum of 10 credits of globally focused electives in several academic areas.
• Students may begin to work towards their Global Competency certificate in their freshmen year.
• Student will create a Global Project showcasing the sum of their experiences from their global education. They will also formally present their project to the school and community.
• Upon completion of the Global Competency Program, graduating seniors will have notation on their transcripts and receive a GCP certificate.
Global Competency Program Checklist
• A sequence of spoken language study other than English.
• 10 credits of global based electives.
• Community service with a global theme.
• Foreign Travel or hosting foreign student.
• Global Competency Project and presentation.
Global Electives:• Video, Television & Media:
– Media Literacy I & II– Foreign Films and Global Media
English:Film Studies, Pop Literature, The Graphic Novel, Crime Literature, Journalism
Social Studies:International Relations, Humanities, Universal Human Rights, Economics, China & the World, Turbulent Sixties
Electives cont.• Mathematics:
– AP Statistics, Probability & Statistics
Foreign Languages:All offerings in the language department
Science:Environmental Science, Astronomy, Science Art & Technology
Electives, cont.• Career Technology Education
– Entrepreneurship &Business Management, Marketing I & II, Sports & Entertainment Marketing, Selected Virtual High School Classes
• All STEM courses• Visual & Performing Arts
– Studio Art, Drawing, Sculpture, Painting, Cultural Art, Piano Lab, Mixed Chorus, Jazz & Rock Ensemble, Theater.