Portrait of a Graduate
Trinity-Pawling students graduate as men of integrity who rise to the challenges of an ever-changing world. Throughout their years at the School, students learn to work collaboratively, think critically, act with honor and sincerity, and become passionate, lifelong learners.
Critical Thinking
A graduate of Trinity-Pawling will be a creative and critical thinker. He will:
- Desire to understand “why” through problem solving, inquiry, design, and iteration.
- Celebrate healthy intellectual risk-taking through persevering by failing forward.
- Perceive, comprehend, evaluate, and innovate ideas, information, and media for validity and relevance.
- Synthesize analysis, interpretation, relationships, and point of view with original curiosity and passion.
- Share the products of intellectual acumen willingly and confidently.
Effective Communication
A graduate of Trinity-Pawling School will be an effective communicator. He will:
- Use active listening strategies to enhance understanding and respect.
- Use reading strategies with a variety of material in order to comprehend literal meaning, to draw inferences, and to evaluate information.
- Speak purposefully to inform, to influence, to motivate, or to entertain.
- Employ writing as a process that involves generating and organizing ideas, connecting with an audience, revising for content, and editing to create an appropriate product.
- Apply technological skills and current digital tools judiciously.
Ethical Citizenship
A graduate of Trinity-Pawling will know what it means to be an ethical citizen of the School and the world. He will:
- Develop cultural competencies by acknowledging and fostering divergent points of view regarding local, national, and global issues.
- Exhibit a strong moral compass as a constituent of a variety of communities.
- Act responsibly as a steward of the Earth’s resources.
- Demonstrate respectful, empathetic, compassionate, and mindful behavior regarding actions and intentions with oneself and with others.
- Actively seek to engage in opportunities to serve and to lead others.
Self Awareness
A graduate of Trinity-Pawling will be a self aware young man. He will:
- Seek to find ways to connect with his community and the environment.
- Learn to articulate his feelings and thoughts to others.
- Work to identify his strengths, gifts, and talents as well as recognize area for growth.
- Act with a mature approach to situation.
- Discover how he learns best by being exposed to many approaches to teaching and learning.
Thoughtful Collaboration
A graduate of Trinity-Pawling will be a thoughtful collaborator. He will:
- Engage with others thoughtfully towards a positive action.
- Be capable of working interdependently with a group by shouldering responsibility, trusting others, and sharing idea to achieve common goals.
- Construct and deconstruct arguments and positions to develop and to appreciate a multiplicity of perspectives.
- Apply feedback loops and performance critiques as a part of continually developing iterations.