Learning Expectations
LEARNING EXPECTATIONS
Learning expectations identify the essential 21st century skills and knowledge that every student will achieve in earning a diploma. These learning expectations are aligned with our core values and beliefs, are required of our accreditation and Board of Education graduation requirements, and are embedded in our teaching and learning.
Every student must demonstrate proficiency in each learning expectation, at least once during her/his junior year. Students will have multiple opportunities across departments to meet each learning expectation during the year. Each department has identified at least one major assessment per marking period that meets the criteria to demonstrating proficiency.
Below are the North Haven High School learning expectations:
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Learning Expectation |
Definitions |
Departments |
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Communication |
The process of expressing ideas in a variety of media and for a variety of purposes, attending to discipline-specific content and conventions. |
art, English, media, social studies, world language |
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Digital Literacy |
The process of using real world digital tools to ethically access, evaluate, and strategically integrate information for authentic tasks. |
media, Social Studies, world language |
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Analytical Thinking |
The process of breaking complex processes into components and pursuing solutions systematically and logically. |
art, English, music, Science |
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Health & Wellness |
The process of understanding and utilizing health and wellness information to enhance personal well-being, responsibility, and self-direction |
Health & physical education |
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College & Career Readiness |
The process of building a foundation for acquiring skills, attitudes, and knowledge that contribute to effective learning in school and enabling students to make a successful transition from school to post-secondary education, training, or world of work. |
Career & Technical Education, school counseling |
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Problem Solving |
The process of productive and perseverant problem solving: of gathering, organizing, synthesizing, and evaluating information in order to reason abstractly and quantitatively. |
Career & technical education, gifted & talented, music, Math, science |
Please click on the links below for the Learning Expectation rubrics and the assessment calendar (opportunities for students to complete learning expectations)