Shared Vision 2003
Shared Vision 2003
Aravaipa
Learning Community General Objectives
Students will
1. Develop
critical thinking and writing skills.
2. Understand college procedures and
bureaucracy.
3. Acquire good study skills.
4. Understanding subject areas
and making connections between them.
5. Develop an appreciation for life long
learning.
6. Construct their own knowledge and reality.
7. Experience
hands-on and real world applications.
8. Understand systems thinking: interdependence,
long-term results, and unintended consequences.
9. Extend knowledge horizons
beyond their immediate community.
10. Feel valued as individuals.
11.
Develop mutual respect and value diversity.
12. Increase self-awareness.
Students
will
1. Develop understanding through archaeology of who we were, who we are,
and what we can become.
a. Value others' history.
b. Understand the necessity
of preserving sites
2. Use Archaeology to learn from earlier people's successes
and failures.
3. Recognize political uses of Archaeology.
4. Distinguish
valid Archaeological concepts and methodologies.
a. Learn how to identify,
classify and analyze data.
b. Learn how Archaeologists find and study sites
c. Develop understanding of dating methods in Archaeology. Become more critical
reader of popular articles citing use of dating methods.
d. Understand limits
of single studies
e. Learn how to reconstruct and analyze the past.
5.
Appreciate the importance of culture and cultural diversity.
6. Apply the
study of Archaeology to one's own life issues and interests.
7. Use Archaeology
to learn more about present life styles and how our cultures can affect the future.
Students will
1.
Communicate clearly through verbal and written expression.
2. Enhance vocabulary
to maximize personal, academic, and career success.
3. Acquire critical thinking
skills to verify research results and evaluate assertions.
4. Analyze literature
(symbolism, themes, conflict) to explore the subtleties of social interactions
and to improve personal relationships and self-understanding.
5. Develop methods
of self-expression that access the creative mind.
Students will:
1. Communicate
using meaningful and relevant mathematics.
2. Use multiple approaches to solve
mathematics problems.
3. Experience math as a laboratory discipline.
4.
Use technological tools to solve math problems.
5. Analyze system behavior
using mathematical models.
Students
will
1. Become independent and confident computer users.
2. Become empowered
members of the virtual community.
3. Research, retrieve, analyze critically,
store and evaluate information obtained through the use of the computer.
4.
Broaden the scope of presentations.
5. Anticipate lapses in computer security
and be prepared to restore a system to normal operation.
6. Become familiar
with the most commonly used software applications and hardware components.
7.
Experience hands-on success using skills needed in computer careers.
Students will
1. Develop critical and analytical, and creative thinking.
2. Read and
take notes of texts effectively and efficiently.
3. Take notes of oral discourse.
4. Increase vocabulary skills to better understand oral and written discourse.
5. Manage time well.
6. Improve goal setting and planning.
7. Discover
most effective personal learning methods.
8. Develop interpersonal skills
for productivity and well-being in teams, communities, family, friendships, and
work.
9. Identify personal purpose for completing college and set appropriate
academic goals.
10. Identify classes needed to reach goals.
11. Identify
and develop habits of mind that lead to academic/work/personal success.
12.
Learn about additional study skills to prepare for future classes.