Extending and Refining Knowledge

• Students will use thinking skills and processes to compare, induce, deduce, construct, support, and analyze perspectives.

Meaningful Use of Knowledge

• Students will use their acquired base of knowledge to explore meaningful-use tasks, make decisions, investigate, and problem-solve.

Habits of Mind

• Students will develop productive habits of mind for the purpose of planning, thinking critically, and thinking creatively.
• Students will plan to utilize available resources efficiently and effectively.
• Students will use their critical thinking to demonstrate accuracy, clarity, and sensitivity.
• Students will practice their creative thinking when engaging intently in tasks even when answers/solutions are not immediately apparent, pushing the limits of their knowledge and abilities, and generating new ways of viewing things.