Shared Vision 2004
Shared Vision 2004
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. Understand
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. 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. 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.
Students will
1. Find out what people are doing in different
parts of the world and how that affects us. (Cultural Region)
2. Describe
the movement of people, ideas, resources ad technology. (Cultural Diffusion)
3.
Develop understanding of how we interact with the plants and animals in our environment.
(Cultural Ecology)
4. Explain how geographical systems affect each other.
(Cultural Integration)
5. Explore how humans change the natural environment
with the structures and materials they make. (Cultural Landscape)
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