Learning Outcomes: 21st Century Skills - New Tech has identified the following Learning Outcomes as essential for 21st Century success.
It is our aim that these 10 Learning Outcomes will produce engaged citizens, life-long learners and well rounded people.
They are a list of knowledge and skills necessary to succeed in college and work.
Content Literacy: Students will have the knowledge, skill, and ability to effectively apply core content, the California State Standards, to real world situations.
Written Proficiency: Based largely upon the English Language Arts Standards, written proficiency is assessed in all classes, even Physical Education. Teachers are encouraged to collaborate with English teachers to emphasize written communication within their courses and in cross-curricular projects.
Oral Proficiency: Speakers are able to express themselves through the logical organization of their ideas and information to inform others on a particular topic. The speaker demonstrates command of the content through extemporaneous delivery in polished formal presentations that use the rhetorical strategies of narration, exposition, persuasion and/or description.
Critical Thinking: Application of content standard
related learning to real world situations allows students to become creative problem solvers and flexible thinkers. Students will be able to solve problems in predictable and unpredictable situations.
Technological Proficiency: Technological Proficiency is the ability to use technology to communicate effectively and professionally, organize information, produce high quality products, and enhance one’s own ability to think and collaborate.
Collaboration: One of the skills employers find most lacking in high school graduates, students are evaluated based upon self and peer assessments and teacher observation. Collaboration is the ability to respectfully work interdependently with people of diverse backgrounds, skill-level, and abilities in order to synthesize ideas to create a quality shared product. Students unwilling to collaborate must contend with being “fired”.
Career Preparation: Within the Project Based Learning curriculum, students are exposed to a variety of real world, job related experiences. Reflecting on these experiences and work assigned in advisory, students explore and set goals for internship, career and college options that are then developed within the PLP.
Citizenship and Ethics: Empowered in a culture of Trust, Respect, and Responsibility, individuals act as principled and engaged citizens for the betterment of the community.
Work Ethic: Work ethic is the demonstration of self discipline, the ability to map, plan, and generate a product; to be responsible to oneself and to others; and the constant, energetic application to study or work with the intention of achieving excellence.
Numeracy: Students apply mathematics across disciplines by interpreting and analyzing numerical data to draw conclusions and make predictions in real world situations.
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