Core Subjects
Core Subjects
The academic curriculum at Xavier College Preparatory High School is crafted using the Understanding by Design (UbD) framework. Our courses are created with student understanding and achievement as the main focus. All courses are composed of units that explicitly point toward enduring understandings, over-arching concepts that transcend subject-matter, and that ask essential questions, questions that invite the learner to desire to explore and discover the topic or subject, deconstructing topics and making rational sense of the concepts and skills to which they are exposed. Students will be able to articulate their own response to essential questions by the end of the unit. All units have specific goals for acquiring knowledge and for developing major skills. Summative assessments, or what the student should be able to know and do drive the development of each unit.