COMMUNICATION SKILLS

• Students communicate with clarity, purpose, and understanding of audience.

• Students integrate the use of a variety of communication forms and use a wide range of communication skills.

• Students recognize, analyze and evaluate various forms of communication.

THINKING AND REASONING SKILLS

• Critical Thinking: Students gather and use information effectively to gain new information and knowledge, classify and organize information, support inferences and justify conclusions appropriate to the context and audience.

• Problem Solving: Students utilize, evaluate and refine the use of multiple strategies to solve a variety of types of problems.

• Creative Thinking: Students generate new and creative ideas by taking considered risks in a variety of contexts.

PERSONAL AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

• Students take responsibility for personal actions and act ethically (demonstrate honesty, fairness, integrity).

• Students respect themselves and others, and understand and appreciate the diversity and interdependence of all people.

• Students demonstrate understanding of and responsibility for global and environmental issues.

• Students act as responsible citizens in the community, state, and nation.