Fine Arts Standards
VISUAL ARTS
Understand and apply media, techniques, and processes.
Use knowledge of structures and functions.
Choose and evaluate a range of subject matter, symbols, and ideas.
Understand the visual arts in relation to history and cultures.
Reflect upon and assess the characteristics and merits of their work and the work of others.
Make connections between visual arts and other disciplines.
MUSIC
Sing, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.
Perform instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire ofmusic.
Improvise melodies, variations, and accompaniments.
Compose and arrange music within specified guidelines.
Read and notate music.
Listen to, analyze, and describe music.
Evaluate music and music performances.
Understand relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside arts.
Understand music in relation to history and culture.
DRAMA
Script write by planning and recording improvisations based on personal experience and heritage, imagination, literature, and history.
Act by assuming roles and interacting in improvisations.
Design by visualizing and arranging environments for classroom dramatizations.
Direct by planning classroom dramatizations.
Research by finding information to support classroom dramatizations.
Compare and connect art forms by describing theater, dramatic media (such as film, television, and electronic media), and other art forms.
Foreign Language Standards
Use the target language to engage in conversations, express feelings and emotions, and exchange opinions and information.
Understand and interpret written and spoken language on diverse topics from diverse media.
Present information, concepts, and ideas to an audience of listeners or readers on a variety of topics.
Understand traditional ideas and perspectives, institutions, professions, literary and artistic expressions, and other components of the target culture.
El alumno puede:
Usar el idioma en cuestión para entablar conversaciones, expresar oralmente sentimientos y emociones e intercambiar opiniones e información.
Comprender e interpretar el idioma oral y escrito relacionado con diferentes tópicos utilizando diferentes medios de comunicación.
Presentar información, conceptos e ideas a una audiencia de oyentes o lectores sobre una variedad de tópicos.
Comprender los diferentes componentes de la cultura en cuestión tales como idas tradicionales y perspectivas, instituciones , profesiones, expresiones artísticas y literarias.
Language Arts Standards
READING The student will:
Use a variety of word recognition and comprehension skills in reading (e.g., preview, predict, compare and contrast, self-monitor, summarize).
Use information from reading to increase vocabulary and enhance language usage.
Recognize and use literary terminology, reading a variety of literary and informational texts to learn about cultures.
Use a variety of strategies to understand and analyze texts.
WRITING AND SPEAKING
The student will:
Write and speak in a variety of genres.
Write and speak for a variety of audiences and purposes.
Use the steps of the writing process (e.g., plan, draft, revise, edit, and share).
Use a variety of devices (e.g., figure of speech, symbolism, dialect, and vocabulary) to convey meaning.
Use a variety of strategies to organize written and oral presentations (e.g., lists, outlining, cause/effect, and comparison/contrast).
LANGUAGE AND USAGE
The student will:
Use conventions of grammar, usage and mechanics in writing and speaking.
THINKING AND VIEWING
The student will:
Use thinking and analytical skills in writing, reading, speaking, listening, and viewing.
Use reading, writing, speaking, listening and viewing to define and solve problems.
Recognize, express and support opinions orally and in writing.
Know the purpose, perspective and historical and cultural influences of a speaker, author or director.
Use a variety of criteria to evaluate information (e.g., reliability, accuracy, and relevancy).
RESEARCH
The student will:
Use a variety of research strategies to gather, organize, and document information, and to communicate the results.
Mathematics Standards
Number and Number Sense: Students will understand numbers, ways of representing numbers, and number systems.
Computation and Estimation: Students will understand meanings of operations and how they relate to one another by computing fluently and making reasonable estimates.
Measurement: Students will measure attributes of objects and the units, systems, and processes of measurement by applying appropriate techniques, tools, and formulas to determine measurements.
Geometry: Students will analyze characteristics and properties of two and three dimensional geometric shapes, specify locations and describe spatial relationships using coordinate geometry and other representational systems, and apply transformations and use symmetry to analyze mathematical situations.
Probability and Statistics: (A) Students will formulate questions that can be addressed with data and collect, organize, and display relevant data to answer them. (B) Students will develop and evaluate inferences and predictions that are based on data by applying basic concepts of probability.
Patterns, Functions, and Algebra: Students will identify, create, analyze and extend patterns, relations, and functions using algebraic symbols and mathematical models, and analyze change in various contexts.
Physical Education Standards
The student will:
Demonstrate levels of competency and proficiency in various movement forms.
Apply movement concepts and principles to the learning and development of motor skills.
Exhibit and understand the benefits associated with participation in various forms of physical activity.
Understand how to monitor and achieve a health-enhancing level of physical fitness.
Demonstrate and understand the importance of responsible personal and social behaviors.
Science Standards*
The student will:
Scientific Thinking and Practice - Understand the processes of scientific investigations and use inquiry and scientific ways of observing, experimenting, predicting, and validating to think critically.
The Content of Science (Physical Science) - Understand the structure of properties of matter, the characteristics of energy, and the interactions between matter and energy.
The Content of Science (Life Science) - Understand the properties, structures, and processes of living things, and the interdependence of living things and their environments.
The Content of Science (Earth and Space Science) - Understand the structure of Earth, the solar system, and the universe, the interconnections among them, and the processes and interactions of Earth's systems.
Science and Society - Understand how scientific discoveries, inventions, practices, and knowledge influence, and are influenced by individuals and societies.
*Adapted from New Mexico Science Content Standards, Benchmarks, and Performance Standards and AERO.
Social Studies Standards
(Time, Continuity, and Change) Students will understand patterns of change and continuity, relationships between people and events through time, and various interpretations of these relationships
(Connections and Conflict) Students will understand causes and effects of interaction among societies, including trade, systems of international exchange, war, and diplomacy.
(People, Places, and Environment) Students will understand the concepts of geography and demography and how geography and demography influence and are influenced by human history.
(Culture) Students will understand cultural and intellectual developments and interactions among and within societies.
(Society and Identity) Students will understand social systems and structures and how these influence individuals.
(Governance and Citizenship) Students will understand why societies create and adopt systems of governance and how these systems address human needs, rights, and citizen responsibilities.
(Production, Distribution, and Consumption) Students will understand fundamental economic principles and ways in which economies are shaped by geographic and human factors.
(Science, Technology, and Society) Students will understand how societies have influenced and been influenced by scientific developments and technological developments.
English Language Learning Standards
Students will use English to participate in social interactions.
Students will interact in, through, and with spoken and written English for personal expression and enjoyment.
Students will use learning strategies to extend their communicative competence.
Students will use English to interact in the classroom.
Students will use English to obtain, process, construct and communicate subject matter information in spoken and/or written form.
Students will use appropriate learning strategies to construct and apply academic knowledge.
Students will choose language variety and genre according to audience, purpose, and setting.
Students will vary non-verbal communication according to audience, purpose, and setting.
Students will use appropriate learning strategies to extend their communicative competence.
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