Learning Results

 

Career Preparation

Preparing for the Future

Students will be knowledgeable about the world of work, explore career options, and relate personal skills, aptitudes, and abilities to future career decisions. Students will be able to:

  1. Analyze skills and abilities required in a variety of career options and relate them to their own skills and abilities. (pg. 6)
  2. Demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between the changing nature of work and educational requirements. (pg. 6)

Education/Career Planning and Management

Guided by self-assessment and personal career interests, students will integrate school-and work-based experiences to develop their career goals. Students will be able to:

  1. Use a career planning process that includes self-assessment, personal development, and a career portfolio as a way to gain initial entry into the workplace. (pg. 7)
  2. Assess personal, educational, and career skills that are transferable among various jobs. (pg. 7)
  3. Explain the problems and possible benefits of involuntary changes in employment, including information on what actions the employee can take to make it easier to find a new position or to become self-employed. (pg. 7)

Balancing Responsibilities

Students will acquire and apply skills/concepts required to balance personal, family, community, and work responsibilities. Students will be able to:

  1. Illustrate how resources and support systems, available within a community, assist individuals in their roles as workers and family members. (pg. 9)
  2. Demonstrate an ability to manage personal resources. (pg. 9)

English Language Arts

Process of Reading

Students will use the skills and strategies of the reading process to comprehend, interpret, evaluate, and appreciate what they have read. Students will be able to:

  1. Identify the author’s purpose and analyze the effects of that purpose on the text. (pg. 13)
  2. Represent key ideas and supporting details in various written forms [e.g., outline, paraphrase, concise summary] (pg. 13)

Informational Texts

Students will apply reading, listening, and viewing strategies to informational texts across all areas of curriculum. Students will be able to:

  1. Use discussions with peers as a way of understanding information. (pg. 17)

Process of Writing and Speaking

Students will demonstrate the ability to use the skills and strategies of the writing process. Students will be able to:

  1. Reflect on, evaluate, revise, and edit a sequence of drafts to improve and polish finished work. (pg. 18)
  2. Use planning, drafting, and revising to produce, on demand, a well-developed, organized piece that demonstrates effective language use, voice, and command of mechanics. (pg. 18)

Standard English Conventions

Students will write and speak correctly, using conventions of standard written and spoken English. Students will be able to:

  1. Edit written work for standard English spelling and usage, evidenced by pieces that show and contain:
  1. no significant errors in the use of pronouns, nouns, adjectival and adverbial forms.
  2. coordinating and subordinating conjunctions.
  3. no significant errors in the spelling of frequently used words and the correct use of commonly confused terms.
  4. no significant errors in the common conventions of capitalization and ending punctuation marks and common uses of the comma.
  5. few significant errors in the spelling of commonly misspelled and rare words, the less common capitalization conventions, the colon, semicolon, hyphen, dash, apostrophe, quotation marks, italics, marginal notes, and footnotes. (pg. 19)

Stylistic and Rhetorical Aspects of Writing and Speaking

Students will use stylistic and rhetorical aspects of writing and speaking to explore ideas, to present lines of thought, to represent and reflect on human experience, and to communicate feelings, knowledge, and opinions. Students will be able to:

  1. Write pieces and deliver oral presentations that achieve distinct purposes [e.g., to persuade, evaluate, analyze, defend] (pg. 20)
  2. Write pieces and deliver oral presentations in which the organization of the work follows from the purpose. (pg. 20)
  3. Write pieces and deliver oral presentations in a personal style, with a discernable voice and effective wording. (pg. 20)

Research-Related Writing and Speaking

Students will work, write, and speak effectively when doing research in all content areas. Students will be able to:

  1. Develop an appropriate strategy for finding information on a particular topic. (pg. 21)
  2. Use referencing while doing research. (pg. 21)
  3. Record significant information from events attended and interviews conducted. (pg. 21)
  4. Identify and use library information services. (pg. 21)
  5. Use government publications, in-depth field studies, and almanacs for research. (pg. 21)
  6. Identify and use a variety of news sources [e.g., newspapers, magazines, broadcast and recorded media, artifacts], informants, and other likely sources for research purposes. (pg. 21)
  7. Use search engines and other Internet resources to do research. (pg. 21)
  8. Evaluate information for accuracy, currency, and possible bias. (pg. 21)

Health and Physical Education

Health Information, Services, and Products

Students will know how to acquire valid information about health issues, services, and products. Students will be able to:

  1. Evaluate factors that influence personal selection of health products and services [e.g., cost and accessibility] (pg. 27)
  2. Analyze various health problems and identify those that require professional health care services [e.g., dental cavities, sports injuries] (pg. 27)

Health Promotion and Risk Reduction

Students will understand how to reduce their health risks through the practice of healthy behaviors. Students will be able to:

  1. Design, implement, and evaluate a plan of stress management. (pg. 28)

Influences on Health

Students will understand how media techniques, cultural perspectives, technology, peers, and family influence behaviors that affect health. Students will be able to:

  1. Analyze how the family, peers, and community influence the health of individuals. (pg. 29)

Decision-Making and Goal Setting

Students will learn how to set personal goals and make decisions that lead to better health. Students will be able to:

  1. Predict the immediate and long-term impact of health decisions on the individual, family, and community. (pg. 31)
  2. Implement a plan and evaluate progress in attaining personal health goals. (pg. 31)

Motor Skills

Students will develop motor skills and apply these to enhance their movement and physical performance. Students will be able to:

  1. Evaluate risk and safety factors that may affect physical activity preferences. (pg. 35)

Mathematics

Data Analysis and Statistics

Students will understand and apply concepts of data analysis. Students will be able to:

  1. Predict and draw conclusions from charts, tables, and graphs that summarize data from practical situations. (pg. 43)

Science and Technology

Cells

Students will understand that cells are the basic units of life. Students will be able to:

  1. Explain how the human body protects itself against disease and how the body might lose that ability. (pg. 67)

Scientific Reasoning

Students will learn to formulate and justify ideas and to make informed decisions. Students will be able to:

  1. Judge the accuracy of alternative explanations by identifying the evidence necessary to support them. (pg. 75)
  2. Explain why agreement among people does not make an argument valid. (pg. 75)
  3. Analyze situations where more than one logical conclusion can be drawn. (pg. 75)

Communication

Students will communicate effectively in the application of science and technology. Students will be able to:

  1. Analyze research or other literature for accuracy in the design and findings of experiments. (pg. 76)

Implications of Science and Technology

Students will understand the historical, social, economic, environmental, and ethical implications of science and technology. Students will be able to:

  1. Analyze the impacts of various scientific and technological developments (pg. 77)

Social Studies

Personal and Consumer Economics

Students will understand that economic decisions are based on the availability of resources and the costs and benefits of choices. Students will be able to:

  1. Conduct a cost benefit analysis of a personal or business decision. (pg. 91)
  2. Evaluate different forms of savings and investments for short and long term returns [e.g., stocks, bonds, money market funds]. (pg. 91)

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