Desired Learner Outcomes
The Indiana School for the Deaf, in accordance with the Curriculum Advisory
Council of the Indiana State Board of Education, envisions a future in which our
graduates will have the opportunity to pursue a common core of life-long learning,
which will prepare them to manage the rapid growth of information, to meet
personal needs, and to contribute to the human community within a rapidly
changing environment.
Mastery of Basic Skills and Fundamental Processes
Our graduates will utilize bilingual fluency and demonstrate abilities to
sense, listen/attend, observe, observe, communicate, read, write, quantify,
compute, and conceptualize.
Development of Intellect
Our graduates will exhibit the ability to think rationally and to make
judgments and decisions based on appropriate knowledge.
Attainment of Interpersonal Understandings
Our graduates will demonstrate comprehension and application of family
and group communications, functions, and relationships in various social,
cultural, and ethnic settings.
Enculturation
Our graduates will demonstrate understanding and application of the
norms, values, traditions, languages, and aesthetic contributions of our
society and civilization.
Citizenship Participation
Our graduates will express perspectives and skill in exercising democratic
privileges and responsibilities of social, political, economic, and
environmental memberships.
Career/Vocational Preparation
Our graduates will demonstrate the attitudes and skills required to secure
and maintain employment.
Moral and Ethical Character Development
Our graduates will demonstrate judgments and behaviors reflecting truth
and goodness.
Emotional and Physical Well-Being
Our graduates will demonstrate the abilities to cope with and accept
emotional, physical, psychological, and social changes within themselves
and others.
Creativity and Aesthetic Expression
Our graduates will contemplate and respond to new ideas and different
points of view, imaginative alternatives offered by others for producing
social-cultural benefits, expression of personal feeling through creative
works, and enjoyment of beauty.
Self-Realization
Our graduates will express the ability to know one's self, search for
meaning in one's activities, make purposeful and responsible decisions,
develop a philosophy of one's existence, and select lifelong learning
goals.
--- Adapted from Indiana's Common Core of Lifelong Learning,
Indiana Curriculum Advisory Council
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