Are you tired of being red in your goals on myLC? In Kettle Moraine School for Arts and Performance (KM Perform), you’ll often hear teachers telling students to “double up” on credit. This doesn’t mean that you’re getting credit you don’t deserve, but that you’re earning the credit for competencies you show proficiency in. Submitting one project to multiple targets may be your solution to getting green.
Since KM Perform is a performing arts school, there are two main areas that students need to earn credit in: knowledge (or academic) core, and performance core. The knowledge core encompasses standard academic requirements such as math, science English, social studies, etc. The performance core focuses on fine arts: AIA, Academic Excellence, arts foundations, career/leadership studies, etc. When you complete a final project for a seminar, you can evaluate the work you put into it and decide whether or not you’ve met competencies in multiple subject areas.
For example: You research hospital procedures, write a realistic fiction story about life in the ER, and then illustrate the story. Then, depending on the depth of your research, you could attach that project to Health and Wellness, Science, AIA, English, and (if applicable) Arts Foundations targets. When it comes to AIA, you’re required to incorporate multiple arts, and at least one connection with an academic core concept. Then, you could submit your project to AIA, a knowledge core competency, and maybe even another performance core competency (depending on the depth of the project). Also, don’t forget about Academic Excellence; if you can show evidence of growth in an area of Academic Excellence, then you can submit your work for that, too.
If that doesn’t do the trick, try talking to your mentor and changing the start dates on your goals. Then, if you have goals in myLC and aren’t currently taking a seminar surrounding that subject, see if you can make your start dates later so that goal doesn’t hold you back.
Submitting your work to multiple competencies can determine whether or not you’re green in myLC. If you write a scientific paper and only submit it for a science competency, then you’d be missing out on English credit. Just make sure that you don’t get too crazy with target submissions; only submit projects to competencies you truly believe you’ve met. Then, once you’re green in your goals, you can take advantage of more cool opportunities right here in KM Perform. Good luck getting green!
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