Portrait of Graduate

We have chosen four criteria to base both our Portrait of a Teacher and Portrait of the Oak Farm Montessori Graduate.  While the manifestation of these traits looks somewhat different for the child/adolescent than the adult, the integration and support of each is easily identifiable.

Life-Long Learner

• Engaged (curious and wants to know what "that" means)
• Critical thinker (reason, knowledge, and analysis based on truth and facts)
• Problem-solver (understanding objective, identifying problem, generating ideas and implementing a solution)

Emotionally Literate

• Self-confident (knowing one's effort met with success through one's own effort)
• Self-understanding (secure and comfortable in one's abilities)
• Self-respect
• Always striving for self-development
• Optimistic and joyful

Leadership

• Self-motivated
• Self-disciplined
• Compassionate
• Empathetic
• Collaborative

Citizenship

• Civic-minded (knowledge and awareness of the impact of one's actions on society)
• Social activist (knowledge, awareness and beneficial action on behalf of the world and its people)
• Optimistic