Learning and Competencies
Working Together to Engage Every Learner
Oyster River High School promotes a safe and nurturing community where the uniqueness of each member is valued. In this spirit, we are committed to becoming educated, ethical, responsible citizens who strive to contribute positively toward the betterment of ourselves, our school, our society and the world.
Vision of a Graduate
As ORCSD students strive to develop and master transferable academic, social and emotional skills, our graduates will be capable and empowered individuals who demonstrate a critical awareness of self and an empathetic awareness of others.
21st Century Learning Expectations
- Knowledgable Person
- Skilled Information Processor
- Critical and Creative Thinker
- Self-Directed Learner
- Responsible Citizen
- Effective Communicator
- Collaborative Worker
Awareness of Self
ORCSD students will demonstrate resilience and adaptability as independent thinkers through being self-directed, self-regulated and self-advocates who understand themselves as learners.
Awareness of Others
ORCSD students will demonstrate ethical, empathetic, and respectful thinking through being collaborative, responsible community members both locally and globally.
Transferable Skills and Knowledge
ORCSD students will demonstrate a growth mindset and master transferable foundational skills and knowledge through critical thinking, effective communication, problem-solving and healthy risk taking.
For additional curriculum and competencies information, please visit the district's Academics page.
Please visit our Program of Studies page for additional details.
Oyster River High School Supported Learning
Every student has talents, skills, an ability to learn and an ability to contribute to our school community. We strive to help each and every student to thrive and reach his/her full potential.
- Math Lab
- Writing Center
- Learning Lab
- Homework Den
- Student Tutors
- Flex Time
- Enrichment
- Student Services
Purpose:
Flex Time is a block of time each day when students will have the opportunity to participate in Advisory, seek Academic Support and Enrichment/Tiered Support. Through Flex Time, the goal is for our students to be empowered to make the appropriate academic and social decisions necessary for success at Oyster River High School and beyond. Flex Time may also be utilized for class meetings, and school assemblies in order to decrease the amount of instructional time that is used for school-wide activities.
- Social/Emotional: Students will demonstrate physical literacy through recognition of the value of physical activity for health, enjoyment, challenge, self-expression, and social interaction while exhibiting responsible personal and social behavior that respects self and others.
- Physical Skills and Application: Students will demonstrate physical literacy in the pursuit of competent performance through a wide variety of motor skills with a high-level of physical effort and intent to achieve.
- Cognitive Strategies and Tactics: Students will demonstrate physical literacy by exhibiting a knowledge of concepts, principles, strategies, and tactics that will allow them to maintain a health enhancing level of activity and fitness while participating or spectating.
- Comprehending Concepts: Students will comprehend concepts related to health promotion and disease prevention to enhance health.
- Analyzing Influences: Students will analyze the influence of family, peers, culture, media, technology, and other factors on health behaviors.
- Accessing Resources: Students will demonstrate the ability to access valid information, products, and services to enhance health.
- Interpersonal Communication: Students will demonstrate the ability to use interpersonal communication skills to enhance health and avoid or reduce health risks.
- Decision Making: Students will demonstrate the ability to use decision-making skills to enhance health.
- Goal Setting: Students will demonstrate the ability to use goal-setting skills to enhance health.
- Practicing Health: Enhancing Behaviors: Students will demonstrate the ability to practice health-enhancing behaviors and avoid or reduce health risks.
- Advocacy: Students will demonstrate the ability to advocate for personal, family, and community health.
- Expressions and Equations: Students will demonstrate mathematical skills such as identifying, simplifying, solving, and writing expressions and equations.
- Visuals: Students will display and identify mathematical topics through graphing functions and visual representations.
- Application: Students will apply and interpret multiple mathematical topics through problem solving and real-world scenarios.
- The Nature of Science: Students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of how science works and how it influences society.
- Systems and Interactions: Students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of various systems and the interactions and processes within those systems.
- Energy and Matter: Students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of how energy is transferred within systems of different scales.
- Structure and Function: Students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of how structure relates to function in systems of various scales.
- Patterns: Students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of patterns and their significance in evaluating systems of various scales.
- Writing: Students will develop writing skills relating to mechanics, organization, and argumentation.
- Communication, Discussion and Presentation: Students will develop communication skills that will allow them to communicate effectively with others, listen with the purpose of understanding, and present information in a way that is clear and effective.
- Research and Citation: Students will develop research and citation skills that will allow them to craft research questions and follow a research process and properly credit their sources.
- Analysis and Problem Solving: Students will analyze the historical and contemporary significance of course content and pose informed solutions to historical and contemporary problems.
- Interpersonal Communication: Learners interact and negotiate meaning in spoken or written conversations to share information, reactions, feelings and opinions.
- Presentational Speaking: Learners present information, concepts or ideas to inform, explain, persuade or narrate on a variety of topics using appropriate media and adapting to various audiences of listeners.
- Presentational Writing: Learners present information, concepts or ideas to inform, explain, persuade or narrate on a variety of topics using appropriate media and adapting to various audiences of listeners.
- Interpretive Listening: Learners understand, interpret and analyze what is heard, viewed on a variety of topics.
- Interpretive Reading: Learners understand, interpret and analyze what is read or viewed on a variety of topics.