New York State Learning Standards

Students will:

• read, write, listen and speak for information and understanding.
  
• read, write, listen and speak for literary response and expression.
  
• read, write, listen, and speak for critical analysis and evaluation.
  
• read, write, listen, and speak for social interaction.
  

• actively engage in the processes that constitute creation and performance in the arts (dance, music, theatre and visual arts) and participate in various roles in the arts.
  
• be knowledgeable about and make use of the materials and resources available for participation in the arts in various roles.
  
• respond critically to a variety of works in the arts, connecting the individual work to other works and to other aspects of human endeavor and thought.
  
• develop an understanding of the personal and cultural forces that shape artistic communication and how the arts in turn shape the diverse cultures of past and present society.
  

• have the necessary knowledge and skills to establish and maintain physical fitness, participate in physical activity, and maintain personal health.
  
• acquire the knowledge and ability necessary to create and maintain a safe and healthy environment.
  
• understand and be able to manage their personal and community resources.
  

• be knowlegeable about the world of work, explore career options, and relate personal skills, aptitudes, and abilities to future career decisions.
  
• demonstrate how academic knowledge and skills are applied in the workplace and other settings.
  
• demonstrate mastery of the foundation skills and competencies essential for success in the workplace.
  
• choose a career major and acquire career-specific technical knowledge/skills necessary to progress toward gainful employment, career advancement, and success in postsecondary programs.
  

• be able to use a language other than English for communication.
  
• develop cross-cultural skills and understandings.
  

• use mathematical analysis, scientific inquiry, and engineering design, as appropriate, to pose questions, seek answers, and develop solutions.
  
• access, generate, process, and transfer information using appropriate technologies.
  
• understand mathematics and become mathematically confident by communicating and reasoning mathematically, by applying mathematics in real-world settings, and by solving problems through the integrated study of number systems, geometry, algebra, data analysis, probability, and trigonometry.
  
• understand and apply scientific concepts, principles, and theories pertaining to the physical setting and living environment and recognize the historical development of ideas in science.
  
• apply technological knowledge and skills to design, construct, use, and evaluate products and systems to satisfy human and environmental needs.
  
• understand the relationships and common themes that connect mathematics, science, and technology and apply the themes to these and other areas of learning.
  
• apply the knowledge and thinking skills of mathematics, science, and technology to address real-life problems and make informed decisions.
  

• use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of major ideas, eras, themes, developments, and turning points in the history of the United States and New York.
  
• use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of major ideas, eras, themes, developments, and turning points in world history and examine the broad sweep of history from a variety of perspectives.
  
• use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of the geography of the interdependent world in which we live--local, national, and global--including the distribution of people, places, and environments over the Earth's surface.
  
• use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of how the United States and other societies develop economic systems and associated institutions to allocate scarce resources, how major decision-making units function in the United States and other national economics, and how an economy solves the scarcity problem through market and nonmarket mechanisms.
  
• use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of the necessity for establishing governments; the governmental system of the United States and other nations; the United States Constitution; the basic civic values of American constitutional democracy; and the roles, rights and responsibilities of citizenship, including avenues of participation.