1. Students will be able to use conceptual thinking to assess, analyze and evaluate issues and problems in present day life.
2. Students will be able to present products and projects in written, graphic, and oral form.
3. Students will demonstrate cooperative learning strategies.
4. Students will demonstrate competence in technology including basic computer skills, vocabulary, peripherals, multimedia, a variety of software, research on the internet, and netiquette.
5. Students will be able to access a variety of appropriate information and logically apply it to solving problems, developing coping strategies, and constructing solutions that show depth and complexity in the process of looking at issues, ethics, and trends.
6. Students will appropriately use oral and written communication for a variety of purposes.
7. Students will demonstrate "fulfills competency" requirements in the content standards in reading, writing, and verbal communication appropriate to their grade levels.
8. Students will develop integrated projects based on their interests/questions which cut across all areas of the curriculum. These projects will be based on universal themes.
9. Students will be able to develop self evaluation rubrics.
1. SAT
2. Teacher and student made rubrics
3. Teacher made tests
4. Electronic portfolios - samples which are student and teacher selections
5. Cognitive Abilities Test (IQ) for Verbal, Non-Verbal, and Performance.
6. Writing samples