Critical Challenge: Multiple Perspectives and Ideologies

Specific Outcomes

This critical challenge may address these outcomes:

Curriculum Outcomes Addressed: 30-1

Specific Outcome 1.1	-	Students will appreciate various perspectives regarding identity and ideology (PADM, TCC, I)
Specific Outcome 1.4	-	Students will examine historic and contemporary expressions of individualism and collectivism (I, C, LPP, TCC)
Specific Outcome 1.5	-	Students will examine the characteristics of ideology (interpretations of history, beliefs about human nature, beliefs about the structure of society, visions for the future) (TCC, PADM, LPP)
Specific Outcome 1.6	-	Students will explore themes of ideologies (nation, class, relationship to land, environment, religion, progressivism) (TCC, PADM, LPP)
Specific Outcome 1.10	-	Students will evaluate the extent to which personal identity should be shaped by ideologies (I, C)
Specific Outcome S.1.1	-	Students will evaluate ideas and information from multiple sources
Specific Outcome S.1.3	-	Students will assess the validity of information based on context, bias, sources, objectivity, evidence or reliability
Specific Outcome S.1.5	-	Students will evaluate personal assumptions and opinions to develop an expanded appreciation of a topic or an issue
Specific Outcome S.1.6	-	Students will synthesize information from contemporary and historical issues to develop an informed position
Specific Outcome S.1.7	-	Students will evaluate the logic of assumptions underlying a position
Specific Outcome S.1.8	-	Students will assemble seemingly unrelated information to support an idea or to explain an event
Specific Outcome S.1.9	-	Students will analyze current affairs from a variety of perspectives
Specific Outcome S.2.1	-	Students will analyze multiple historical and contemporary perspectives within and across cultures
Specific Outcome S.2.3	-	Students will compare similarities and differences among historical narratives
Specific Outcome S.2.7	-	Students will develop a reasoned position that is informed by historical and contemporary evidence
Specific Outcome S.4.1	-	Students will demonstrate leadership in groups to achieve consensus, solve problems, formulate positions and take action, if appropriate, on important issues
Specific Outcome S.5.6	-	Students will collaborate in groups to solve problems
Specific Outcome S.6.2	-	Students will acknowledge the importance of multiple perspectives in a variety of situations
Specific Outcome S.7.1	-	Students will develop, express and defend an informed position on an issue
Specific Outcome S.7.3	-	Students will draw pertinent conclusions based on evidence derived from research
Specific Outcome S.7.4	-	Students will demonstrate proficiency in the use of research tools and strategies to investigate issues
Specific Outcome S.7.5	-	Students will consult a wide variety of sources, including oral histories, that reflect varied viewpoints on particular issues
Specific Outcome S.7.8	-	Students will select and analyze relevant information when conducting research
Specific Outcome S.8.2	-	Students will use skills of formal and informal discussion and/or debate to persuasively express informed viewpoints on an issue
Specific Outcome S.8.5	-	Students will use a variety of oral, visual and print sources to present informed positions on issues
Specific Outcome S.8.8	-	Students will compose, revise and edit text
Specific Outcome S.9.1	-	Students will assess the authority, reliability and validity of electronically accessed information
Specific Outcome S.9.2	-	Students will evaluate the validity of various points of view presented in the media
Specific Outcome S.9.4	-	Students will analyze the impact of various forms of media, identifying complexities and discrepancies in the information and making distinctions between sound generalizations and misleading oversimplification

Curriculum Outcomes Addressed: 30-2

Specific Outcome 1.1	-	Students will appreciate various perspectives regarding identity and ideology (PADM, ER, TCC)
Specific Outcome 1.4	-	Students will identify historic and contemporary expressions of individualism and collectivism (I, C, LPP, TCC)
Specific Outcome 1.5	-	Students will examine the characteristics of ideology (interpretations of history, beliefs about human nature, beliefs about the structure of society, visions for the future) (TCC, PADM, LPP)
Specific Outcome 1.6	-	Students will identify themes of ideologies (nation, class, relationship to land, environment, religion) (TCC, PADM, LPP)
Specific Outcome 1.10	-	Students will analyze the extent to which personal identity should be shaped by ideologies (I, C)
Specific Outcome S.1.1	-	Students will analyze ideas and information from multiple sources
Specific Outcome S.1.3	-	Students will determine the validity of information based on context, bias, sources, objectivity, evidence or reliability
Specific Outcome S.1.5	-	Students will evaluate personal assumptions and opinions
Specific Outcome S.1.6	-	Students will determine the strengths and weaknesses of arguments
Specific Outcome S.1.7	-	Students will identify seemingly unrelated ideas to explain a concept or event
Specific Outcome S.1.8	-	Students will analyze current affairs from a variety of perspectives
Specific Outcome S.1.9	-	Students will identify main ideas underlying a position or issue
Specific Outcome S.2.1	-	Students will understand diverse historical and contemporary perspectives within and across cultures
Specific Outcome S.2.3	-	Students will compare and contrast historical narratives
Specific Outcome S.4.1	-	Students will demonstrate skills needed to reach consensus, solve problems and formulate positions
Specific Outcome S.5.4	-	Students will consider the points of view and perspectives of others
Specific Outcome S.5.6	-	Students will demonstrate cooperativeness in groups to solve problems
Specific Outcome S.6.2	-	Students will promote and respect the contributions of team members when working as a team
Specific Outcome S.7.1	-	Students will develop and express an informed position on an issue
Specific Outcome S.7.2	-	Students will develop conclusions based on evidence gathered through research of a wide variety of sources
Specific Outcome S.7.3	-	Students will use research tools and methods to investigate issues
Specific Outcome S.7.4	-	Students will consult a wide variety of sources, including oral histories, that reflect varied viewpoints on particular issues
Specific Outcome S.7.6	-	Students will select relevant information when conducting research
Specific Outcome S.7.9	-	Students will plan and perform searches, using digital sources
Specific Outcome S.7.10	-	Students will generate understandings of issues by using some form of technology to facilitate the process
Specific Outcome S.8.1	-	Students will communicate effectively in a variety of situations
Specific Outcome S.8.2	-	Students will engage in respectful discussion
Specific Outcome S.8.3	-	Students will use a variety of oral, visual and print sources to present informed positions on issues
Specific Outcome S.8.6	-	Students will use technology to compose, revise and edit text
Specific Outcome S.8.7	-	Students will employ technologies to adapt information for context (situation, audience and purpose)
Specific Outcome S.9.1	-	Students will assess the authority, reliability and validity of electronically accessed information
Specific Outcome S.9.2	-	Students will analyze the validity of various points of view in media messages
Specific Outcome S.9.3	-	Students will analyze information from multiple sources, evaluating each source in terms of the author's perspective or bias and use of evidence
Specific Outcome S.9.4	-	Students will analyze the impact of various forms of media
Specific Outcome S.9.5	-	Students will demonstrate discriminatory selection of electronically accessed information

C	Citizenship
ER	Economics and Resources
CC	Culture and Community

I	Identity
LPP	The Land: Places and People
GC	Global Connections

TCC	Time, Continuity and Change
PADM	Power, Authority, and Decision Making