Critical Thinker

Identify, evaluate and use resources effectively for the purpose of problem solving
Build meaning and understanding for themselves using prior knowledge and new information.

• For a assignment about a poet, I used my previous knowledge and found more information.

Apply problem-solving skills to facilitate learning
Gather, analyze and process information from a variety of sources
Solve problems using a variety of strategies

• During the Anne Frank project, we didn’t know how to fit PowerPoint into project.

Select, monitor, and adjust problem-solving strategies

Academic Achiever

Demonstrate progress in all curricular areas
Continually assess, evaluate and adjust work to maintain high standards

• Always reviewed what poetry pages I completed and adjusted work to finish on time.
• During poetry unit, wrote a poem then redrafted and finally made a final draft.

Demonstrate the ability to work both independently and collaboratively
Access information from a variety of sources

• Accessed information from Anne Frank’s diary and internet.

Demonstrate technological literacy and the use of technology as a tool for the efficient and creative completion of a project

Involved Citizen

Seek to improve the lives of others in their community

• Wanted to show others what happened during Holocaust and learn important lessons from a simple girl, Anne Frank.

Demonstrate care and concern for their environment

• Wrote a poem about Pollution and took a picture for the TeenLife project.

Demonstrate responsibility in active decision-making
Interact respectfully with people of diverse cultures

• Worked with people from around the world during TeenLife project.

Demonstrate awareness and respect for the rights of others

Effective Communicator

Demonstrate their creative talents to convey ideas

• Used different ways to convey the ideas in my Poetry Book.
• Took photos is different and unique ways.

Incorporate/Utilize technology as a tool for communication

• Communicated with others around the world through a wikispace.

Listen respectfully and ask questions to facilitate understanding and achieve insight

• Asked questions about poetry projects if I didn’t understand.

Demonstrate the skills of effective collaboration
Collaborate with others in appropriate learning situations to achieve group goals

• Collaborated with my team to finish Anne Frank project.
• Collaborated with others in the TeenLife project.

Understand and convey written, oral and visual information using appropriate media

• Created blueprint of memorial, made PowerPoint presentation and wrote information down.

Demonstrate awareness of the role of audience

• Realized that people might find certain pictures of the Holocaust too gory, so we divided the memorial in our blueprint.

Self-Directed Learner

Accept responsibility for their own learning

• Made use of free time in class to write poems instead of wasting it.

Identify their needs and apply appropriate learning strategies

• Some poems needed brainstorming while others needed recollection of the past for the Poetry Book.

Participate in a wide variety of co-curricular programs and activities which develop social, emotional and physical talents
Take creative risks in developing untried ideas

• Made a unique front cover for Poetry Book.

Demonstrate competency in goal setting, time management, and organizational skills

• Made goals to finish the Poetry Book within a certain time.

Monitor, adjust and document work in progress
Develop, prioritize and continually revise personal goals
Apply practices that promote and support the safety and health of self and others