HS+Outcomes

=**Learner Outcomes**=

**At ISB, HS students will be:**
=1) Effective Learners=

As Effective Learners, ISB Students will understand that:

 * effective information gathering requires reflection and evaluation throughout the process
 * Become experts in understanding and guiding their own learning
 * posing questions leads them to higher levels of understanding
 * Learn habits that lead them towards deeper understanding.
 * Learn that efficient use of technology to gather, process, evaluate, and present information is an essential skill for all
 * learners are flexible, adaptable, and effective in using tools that generate and respond to change,
 * Internalize the why and how to effectively search for, evaluate, select, analyze, interpret, and synthesize appropriate information to problem solve.
 * bias influences the creation and interpretation of information.
 * Take responsibility for their learning by assessing their own levels of effort, challenge, and personal initiative.
 * people use prior knowledge to learn how to build new understandings and deal with any new technologies.

=2) Effective Collaborators=

**As** Effective Global Collaborators**, ISB Students will:**

 * Engage with students of different cultures inside and outside school.
 * Use their prior knowledge to help make connections between disciplines and the real world.
 * Acquire an international education that inspires understanding and enthusiasm for world citizenship and service to others.
 * Understand that communication networks and tools are powerful mediums to spread positive change or to negatively impact others.

=3) Effective Communicators & Creators=


 * Learn to:
 * be precise with their language,
 * probe for clarification,
 * fully understand concepts and one another,
 * connect their understanding to the real world.
 * develop directions for future investigations
 * Understand that:
 * technology brings about rapid change, including moral and ethical considerations,
 * purpose and audience for communication determine the appropriate media choice.
 * design and medium choices impact the quality and effectiveness of communications.
 * Reflect on, organize, analyze, interpret, and synthesize information in order to effectively communicate and create ideas.

In line with professional standards
While the outcomes listed below have been developed by the ISB21 team to include the necessary skills and understandings to students to succeed in the 21st Century, they are shaped also by the best practice recommendations of professional organizations like the International Society for Technology Education ([|ISTE]) and American Association of School Librarirans ([|AASL]). Their standards documents can be reached by following the links on this page.

[|AASL - Standards for the 21st Century] (2007)
 * 1) Inquire, think critically, and gain knowledge.
 * 2) Draw conclusions, make informed decisions, apply knowledge to new situations, and create new knowledge
 * 3) Share knowledge and participate ethically and productively as members of our democratic society.
 * 4) Pursue personal and aesthetic growth.

[|ISTE - National Education Technology Standards] (2008)
 * 1) Creativity and Innovation
 * 2) Communication and Collaboration
 * 3) Research and Information Fluency
 * 4) Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, and Decision Making
 * 5) Digital Citizenship
 * 6) Technology Operations and Concepts

Library Media & Technology Standards (LMaTS) and Benchmarks ( Thanks to Greg Curtis, ISBeijing, 2009)



**Embedding ISB HS 21st Century Outcomes**
In the HS, 21st Century Literacy Skills are in process of being embedded in specific curriculum units.

From 1997-2005, Rubicon Atlas was the tool used to document the results of collaborations intended to embed these skills. Currently (Spring 2008), the following major skills embedding initiative are in place at each HS grade level. > Recent releases of updated Teaching and Learning Standards from the above organizations are currently being reviewed with the intention of further specifying grade-level Benchmarks.
 * 9th Grade Orientation program(1/2 period scheduled on alternate days with blocks of time for specific topics. Library/media typically has 2 blocks within this schedule of 2-3 periods each
 * 10th Grade Research Project (Embedded Research Skills Benchmarks on Gr. 10 Research Project
 * 11th Grade IB Extended Essay project - formal Writing Process (currently involves approximately 1/2 students in 11th grade)
 * 12th Grade Senior Seminar (Semester Class) - all non-IB students required to complete 1-semester Senior Seminar) SSRP2007

New - for review and action, Fall, 2008 =AASL - Standards for the 21st-Century Learner in Action -=

Download entire document ([|PDF] or [|Word]) Download individual sections:
 * The following documents are the second draft of //Standards for the 21st-Century Learner in Action// (working title). It will be revised based on input from AASL members...Feedback should be sent to standardsinaction@ala.org by Wednesday, October 15, 2008.
 * 1) Introduction ([|PDF] or [|Word])
 * 2) Skills ([|PDF] or [|Word])
 * 3) Dispositions ([|PDF] or [|Word])
 * 4) Responsibilities ([|PDF] or [|Word])
 * 5) Self-Assessment Strategies ([|PDF] or [|Word])
 * 6) Benchmark Action Examples ([|PDF] or [|Word])
 * 7) Grade 2 ([|PDF] or [|Word])
 * 8) Grade 5 ([|PDF] or [|Word])
 * 9) Grade 8 ([|PDF] or [|Word])
 * 10) Grade 10 ([|PDF] or [|Word])
 * 11) Grade 12+ ([|PDF] or [|Word])
 * 12) Action Example Template ([|PDF] or [|Word])
 * 13) Works Cited ([|PDF] or [|Word]) ||
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