Performance Principles

Faculty Performance

Student Performance

1

Faculty must fully accept responsibility for facilitating student success.

1 Every learner can learn to learn better, regardless of current level of achievement; one’s potential is not limited by current ability.

2

In a quality learning environment, facilitators of learning (teachers) focus on improving specific learning skills through timely, appropriate, and constructive interventions.

2

Although everyone requires help with learning at times, the goal is to become a capable, self-sufficient, life-long learner.

3

Mentors use specific methodologies that model the steps or activities they expect students to use in achieving their own learning goals.

3

An empowered learner is one who uses learning processes and self-assessment to improve future performance.

4

A Process Educator can continuously improve the concepts, processes, and tools used by doing active observation and research in the classroom.

4

To develop expertise in a discipline, a learner must develop a specific knowledge base in that field, but also acquire generic, life-long learning skills that relate to all disciplines.