Watsonville High School

Student Learning Objectives and Instructional Goals

WATSONVILLE HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES (SLO'S)

Current Mission Statement:

The Watsonville High School community is committed to offering rigorous academic and vocational opportunities for multiple career and college pathways beyond graduation.

Social/Global Responsibility:

All WHS students will be able to analyze environmental and social issues to create responsible global citizenship.

Critical Thinking:

All WHS students will analyze, evaluate, apply, and provide evidence to inform cross-curricular concepts to make decisions, predict outcomes and design creative solutions in an ever changing technological society.

Literacy & Communication:

All WHS grads will be articulate and confident communicators through reading, writing, listening, and speaking, who have an awareness of their audience, effectively using Standard English and contributing in collaborative situations.

WATSONVILLE HIGH SCHOOL 2023-24
SCHOOL WIDE INSTRUCTIONAL GOALS (SWIG)
Focus: Critical Thinking and Analysis

WHS School Goal 1:

Employ questions and tasks, both oral and written, that are text-specific and accurately address the analytical thinking required by the grade-level standards.

Goal 1 Indicators:

Questions and tasks address the text by attending to its particular qualitative features: its meaning/purpose and/or language, structure(s), or knowledge demands.
Questions and tasks require students to use evidence from the text to demonstrate understanding and to support their ideas about the text. These ideas are expressed through written and/or oral responses.

WHS School Goal 2:

Provide all students with opportunities to engage in the work of the lesson.

Goal 2 Indicators:

The teacher poses questions and tasks for students to do the majority of the work: speaking/ listening, reading, and/or writing. Students do the majority of the work of the lesson.

The teacher cultivates reasoning and meaning making by allowing students to productively struggle. Students persevere through difficulty.