Profile of Graduates

Shawnee Profile of Graduates

When the students have completed our educational program, they will have achieved the following:

Core Areas of Knowledge

• English – reading, writing, speaking, and listening
• Mathematics
• The Sciences
• World Languages
• Civics, Government, Geography, and History
• Financial Literacy
• Visual and Performing Arts
• 21 Century Life and Careers
• Health and Wellness

Learning and Thinking Skills

• Being critical thinkers and problem-solvers
• Using effective written and oral communication
• Exhibiting creative decision-making
• Working in collaboration
• Being contextual learners
• Evolving with an ever-changing world

 21-Century Literacy

• Exhibiting proficiency with the tools of technology
• Building relationships with others to pose and solve problems collaboratively and cross-culturally
• Designing and sharing information for global communities to meet a variety of purposes
• Managing, analyzing and synthesizing multiple streams of simultaneous information
• Creating, critiquing, analyzing, and evaluating multi-media texts
• Attending to the ethical responsibilities required by these complex environments

 Life Skills 

• Exhibiting character values for being;  respectful, honest, trustworthy, compassionate, caring, fair, genuine citizens
• Taking civic responsibilities
• Being a leader
• Working cooperatively in teamwork
• Implementing learned decision-making skills
• Being an informed voter
• Being self-sufficient
• Contributing to the benefit of society
• Using time management
• Advocating for self and others
• Taking action