Communication: Students will engage in quality communication using active listening and reading skills and expressing ideas appropriately in oral, written, and visual work. Indicators Students will: Emerging 0-1 Developing/Practicing 2-3 Mastery/Exemplary 4-5 COM 1 - Display understanding, compassion and acceptance. Acquire skills in identifying and using thoughtfulness, consideration and care in communications. Use kindness, understanding and compassion in communications. Be open to listening and sharing without interrupting and show empathy to others. Communicate consistently with understanding, compassion and acceptance. COM 2 - Express ideas clearly in oral, written and visual work. Acquire generally accepted rules of grammar and speech and beginning to use them in oral, written and visual work. Use generally accepted rules of grammar and speech in oral, written and visual work. Express ideas clearly, correctly, and consistently in oral, written and visual work. COM3 - Collaborate effectively to achieve course/learning goals. Acquire skills needed to collaborate. Use effective skills when collaborating. Collaborate effectively in all settings. COM 4 - Work respectfully with others by considering opposing view-points and different cultural perspectives. Acquire skills needed to seek and consider opposing viewpoints and different cultural perspectives. Use skills effectively when faced with opposing viewpoints and different cultural perspectives. Seek out opposing viewpoints and different cultural perspectives. Critical Thinking: Students will think critically and creatively about problems and issues in classroom or school, home, work, and community settings to create positive, sustainable solutions. Indicators Students will: Emerging 0-1 Developing/Practicing 2-3 Mastery/Exemplary 4-5
CT 1 - Recognize own and others’ emotions, assumptions, biases, and cultural contexts. Become aware of own and others’ emotions, assumptions, biases, and cultural contexts. Recognize and accept similarities and differences in own and others’ emotions, assumptions, biases, and cultural contexts. Seek and embrace diversity in emotions, assumptions, biases, and cultural contexts. CT 2 - significant and relevant questions. Become aware of the desirability of raising questions. Consistently raise significant and relevant questions. Integrate significant and relevant questions into daily life. CT 3 – Locate, organize, analyze, and interpret data. Become aware of the need for data to support ideas. Consistently locate, organize, analyze, and interpret data. Creatively integrate a variety of sources of data to support positions. CT 4 - Envision creative approaches to issues and problems. Become aware of issues and problems needing resolution. Consistently seek possible resolutions of problems and issues. Take initiative to envision creative approaches to issues and problems. CT 5 – Foresee consequences of actions. Begin to realize that actions have consequences. Consistently seek to understand the consequences of actions. Integrate a consideration of possible consequences into decision-making about actions. CT 6 - Identify the economic, ecological and/or social elements of sustainability as part of human systems. Become of sustainability as a desirable goal. Recognizes that there are economic, ecological, or social actions that support sustainability of human systems. Initiate a variety of economic, ecological, or social actions that support sustainability of systems. Personal Growth Statement: Students will balance life and civic responsibilities, believe in themselves, accept and commit to change, self-reflect, and be tolerant and respectful of themselves and others. Indicators Students will: Emerging 0-1 Developing/Practicing 2-3 Mastery/Exemplary 4-5 PG 1 - Act as a responsible member of a community. Become aware of the attitudes, behaviors, and values to become a responsible member of a community (work, home, school, or any group affiliation). Demonstrate the duties, actions, and values of being a responsible community member. Integrate the appropriate attitudes, behaviors, and values into any community setting.