It is the general aim of St. John’s College Junior College to produce graduates with the following knowledge, skills and values:
Comprehension Skills
Graduates will attend to, receive, interpret and respond appropriately to verbal, visual, nonverbal, written, symbolic, graphical and numeric forms in academic, work, family and community settings for literal, inferential, insightful and critical comprehension.
Speaking and Writing Skills
Graduates will use appropriate verbal, visual, nonverbal, written, symbolic, graphical and numeric forms to convey critical and creative thinking in academic, work, family and community settings, for expository, narrative and persuasive purposes.
Critical Thinking & Problem Solving
Graduates will use comprehension and quantitative skills in new situations to analyze problems, conceptualize theses, develop arguments, gather & weigh evidence, derive conclusions and solutions and evaluate consequences.
Quantitative Skills
Graduates will use concepts of quantity and space and associated reasoning methods to interpret, analyze and explain issues in quantitative terms.
Information & Technological Literacy
Graduates will access and process information from multiple sources using appropriate modern everyday information technology applications (hardware & software).
Personal & Interpersonal Skills
Graduates will exhibit sense of purpose, life long learning, integrity, diligence, perseverance, teamwork, and respect for diverse peoples & cultures.
Spiritual Integrity
Graduates will search for truth, have a clear sense of their own spiritual values, and evaluate the significance of faith traditions and spiritual formation in life-long decision and actions. Graduates will possess high ideals and goals that motivate their actions so that they are seen to be persons whose presence in this world reflects the love of God for mankind.
Aesthetic Sensitivity
Graduates will produce, respond to, value and enjoy forms of artistic expression.
Citizenship, Leadership & Commitment to Justice
Graduates will demonstrate responsibilities of living in community with others and the natural environment. Graduates will be informed, ethical participants in the wider community, Belize, the region and the world. Graduates will be positive change agents both alone and in cooperation with others towards creating a more just world.
Disciplinary Grounding
Graduates will demonstrate a solid grounding in discipline specific knowledge with understanding, skills and habits of mind in their chosen field of study.