The reference about this technicality comes from countries such as Canada, Singapore, Mexico, Pakistan, United States and despite giving certain differences between their performances, all make relationship programs, projects and activities that complement the curriculum of a school. It's intentional actions that take place both during school hours and outside it, to increase the competence of students through meaningful experiences where the student participates voluntarily interacting with the community, thus becoming an extension of formal education. Cocurricular projects seek to somehow blur the boundaries between formal, non-formal and informal education setting as well, at the moment of necessary educational innovation, as an added value to the school to reduce the gap between students who have high performance that has a low performance. One of the challenges of our Association is to give shape to this concept, complete its meaning and structure your content, adapting it in order to articulate the socio-educational intervention in the school.
COCURRICULAR activities are divided in two: those derived from technological activities that are mandatory in their attendance, but optional in terms of their selection and the different clubs and activities that try to capture the attention of students to take advantage of their different skills without being compulsory registration.
A co-curricular activity is defined as a program or outside the class of activity, supervised and funded by the school, which offers learning and the formation of the character of experiences related to the curriculum. Co-curricular activities are voluntary, are not regular part of the school curriculum, are not classified and not earn credits. It is the intention of the school Committee by this policy to encourage effort and academic achievement of students in the public schools of Portland.
