The following is an interim set of goals which will be presented to the curriculum committee for a vote. Please comment to me via the internet.
Ed Sanders.
Interim Goals for the White Mountains Regional School District.
The following is a compilation of goals from the New Hampshire Business and Industry Association, the WMRSD teachers, the EIP process and the NH Frameworks.
They are coded thus: T = Teachers
B = Business
C = Community
F = Frameworks (Not included yet)
-WHAT STUDENTS SHOULD BE ABLE TO DO
Upon graduation from high school, a person should be able to perform in the following areas:
BASIC SKILLS
Group or Team Skills
BT * Participate constructively as a team member.
BT * Follow directions.
BT * Resolve conflicts.
B * Act constructively as a team leader when assigned that role.
English Language Skills
BTC * Comprehend, speak, read, and write English with the fluency
required for effective daily living.
T * Be able to spell and use correct grammar.
T * Read for understanding.
C * Know phonics rules to be able to pronounce unknown words.
Cross-Culture and Second Language Skills
B * Show active comprehension of our pluralistic society and its
relevance to daily life.
BTC * Comprehend, speak, and read a major language other than English.
BT * Have non-verbal skills and general cultural awareness at an
elementary school level.
Personal Computer Skills
BC * Use and understand PC hardware and operating software and a
word processing program fluently. Use PC level spread sheet
program at a basic level.
T * Keyboarding proficiency.
TC * Be computer literate.
Numbers, Symbols, and Graphics
B * Explain graphs, charts and tables.
T * Mastery of basic math skills.
LIVING AND CAREER SKILLS
Reasoning and Problem Solving
BT * Solve problems systematically.
BC * Accept personal responsibility for, and possible adverse
outcomes of risky decisions without being depressed or
destroyed.
B * Accept change as an imperative, requiring personal
adaptability and learning as a necessary and constant process
throughout life.
T * Know where to find information.
BT Health, Hygiene, and Survival
B * Maintain a balanced diet.
B * Avoid addictive substances.
B * Avoid contracting or transmitting communicable diseases.
B * Perform regular moderate exercise.
B * Exhibit safe practices in driving, and other potentially
hazardous life routines.
B * Have regular health checks.
Personal Presentation
BC * Exhibit courtesy consistent with the principles of free
speech.
B * Refrain from unintentional public or private behavior that has
generally accepted objectionable public consequences.
B * Be prepared to meet the negative consequences of intentional
disruptive behavior, regardless of justification.
Daily living and Home Care
BT * Maintain a self-sufficient, organized personal life.
BT * Conduct an effective and responsible full range of daily life,
parenting, child care, home operation and home care
activities.
B * Use and troubleshoot for commonly available communication,
information, and transportation devices and systems.
B * Conduct recreation and leisure activities, emergency response
and self-defense.
BT * Employ personal-level conflict resolution methods.
B * Make and use reasonable estimates of volume, size, distance,
weight and time.
B * Use common sense to cope with daily living situations.
B * Cope and survive regardless of the physical environment.
Personal Business
B * Perform major purchasing activities.
BT * Conduct personal money management with positive results.
BT * Have the potential for possible further education.
B * Interest in at least one type of common work that has a high
probability of employment with a liveable income.
B * Earn a living, whether or not one is going on for further
education.
B * Demonstrate the ability to conform to basic employability
expectations.
B * Have the awareness of the requirements necessary to advance
within employment.
T * Learn how to learn.
Business and Commerce
B * Understand the concepts of supply and demand, cost and
benefit, pricing and profit, investment and return, utility,
and productivity.
Recreation and Leisure
BT * Exhibit familiarity with a broad range of artistic,
entertainment, team sport, and recreational opportunities.
BT * Have an affinity for some artistic, entertainment, team sport
or recreational activities.
Conflict Resolution
BT * Resolve conflicts non-violently.
General Personal Effectiveness
BT * Exhibit a positive self concept and a realistic life vision
and plan, based on personal strengths and available
opportunities.
PHYSICAL AND TECHNICAL SYSTEMS
Technology
BC * Use and maintain common tools, implements, and devices for
facilitation and convenience of daily life and common work.
Quantification
B * Perform mathematical operations with the proficiency required
to conduct transactions as complex as purchasing a car or
house.
Environment/Natural Resources
BT * Understand and avoid or refrain from significant disruptions
of the natural environment.
Biology/Chemistry/Physics
BT * Apply facts and/or general principles from life and physical
sciences to enhance and meet common difficulties in daily
life.
SOCIAL SYSTEMS
History and Culture
BT * Describe the context and general significance of benchmark
events and cultural symbols of world and US history.
Human Behavior
BT * Apply facts and/or general principles from social sciences
such as anthropology, demography, ethnography, geography,
psychology, sociology to enhance effectiveness and meet
common difficulties in daily living.
Economics
B * Apply facts and/or general principles from economics to
enhance effectiveness and meet common difficulties in daily
living.
Law
BT * Avoid intentional criminal activities and activities that
create criminal, civil, or equitable liabilities, based on
ignorance.
Civics and Politics
BT * Participate as an informed voter in local, state, and
national elections.
BT * Participate as an active party in local civic, union, school
and/or town or city affairs.
VALUES
Respect
BCT * Demonstrate a regard for human diversity and pluralism.
BCT * Demonstrate courtesy.
BT * Demonstrate regard for human worth and property.
Responsibility
BC * Demonstrate responsibility to ones self, to ones family, to
others, to community.
BC * Have a regard for commitments and obligations.
BCT * Fulfill citizenship obligations.
Adaptability
BT * Demonstrate an awareness of the environment and reality.
BT * Be prepared for and seek opportunities.
BTC * Embrace and overcome challenges.
B * Accept the inevitability of change.
Integrity
BCT * Demonstrate dependability and honesty.
Justice
BT * Demonstrate fairness; regard for property, law, right action,
constitutional rights, and democratic principles as applied
to individuals and minorities as well as to majorities.
Self-Concept
BT * Demonstrate self-respect, self-control, and a sense of
personal worth.
BT * Recognize choice and personal discipline.
Values
BT * Identify significant value issues and choices within the
graduate's life experience.
BT * Identify broadly accepted value justifications for the
choices that one makes.
BT * Explain simply and clearly the meaning of, and critical
issues relating to, each of the concepts.
Copyright 1996 by Ed Sanders.