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Expected Schoolwide Learning Results - ESLR
We will prepare our graduates to be:
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#1 Self-Directed Lifelong Learners
Who master content standards to enter college and careers
#2 Effective Communicators
Who read, write, speak and listen
#3 Responsible Citizens
Who participate in their communities
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Connecting Learning Activities to ESLR's
Since the ESLR's provide the overarching framework for learning at Hoover, we have decided to address this critical area for follow-up with on-going department investigation. The following is a sampling of evidence provided by departments of how ESLR's are addressed.
ESLR #1 Self-Directed Lifelong Learners
Administration - Students must be on time to class in order to avoid administrative tardy sweeps.
Business - Students are taught a specific task and then given a project on which they must utilize their skills and knowledge without teacher direction.
Counseling - AVID program supports access to college prep courses. Through student- centered guidance programs, students plan educational programs to meet life goals.
English - Writing is a tool for self-exploration, enabling them to explore their own thinking processes, makes them more aware of how they approach ideas and other people.
ELD - Students are encouraged to take night and college courses to advance English acquisition.
Foreign Language - Students learn organizational skills through note taking, homework, and portfolio assignments.
Health and Guidance - Students learn to set goals with regards to life choices, education, career and health choices.
History/Social Science - Students are expected to complete homework and
meet deadlines on long-term projects.
Home Economics - Students learn to set goals and make decisions with regards to their health and nutrition. Students complete self-assessments of their nutritional and health choices.
Industrial Arts - Students complete research projects utilizing the newspaper, Internet, arid other media.
Mathematics - Students apply critical thinking skills to significant math concepts. Physical Education - Students are taught to monitor their physical fitness and set goals to create a healthy lifestyle.
Science - Students assess their work and select areas of weakness in order to receive extra assistance from teachers or classmates.
Special Education - Students do homework, give PowerPoint presentations, and complete research projects.
Visual and Performing Arts - Students who complete graduation requirements early often take multiple arts classes during their senior year (often meeting requirements of the Fine Arts Academy).
ESLR #2 Effective Communicators
Administration - Students are instructed on the use of appropriate language registers based on with whom they are conversing.
Business - Students assist each other in class. Counseling - Students write essays for college applications.
English - Students put a newspaper together. They gathered ideas, conduct news meetings, lay out pages, write articles, and edit copies.
ELD - Students give oral presentations, work in cooperative groups, and write in a variety of genres.
Foreign Language - Students improve communication skills by practicing public speaking.
Health and Guidance - Students create career portfolios and participate in mock interviews.
History/Social Science - Students communicate major ideas about historical events through essays.
Home Economics - Students demonstrate cooking techniques in class presentations.
Industrial Arts - Students demonstrate learning through written, oral and performance assessments.
Mathematics - Students communicate mathematical concepts through creation of graphs, equations and integrated projects.
Physical Education - Students develop game plans and are able to call out plays during games. Students analyze, compare and contrast the use of dance in communicating and social and political issues and themes.
Science - Students observe, think creatively and critically, make rational decisions, classify, use numbers and calculations, plot graphs, measure, use their intuition, predict, formulate models, interpret data, hypothesize, and communicate what they have learned.
Special Education - Students demonstrate learning in all subject areas by producing written products.
Visual and Performing Arts - Students analyze, assess, and derive meaning from works of art, including their own, according to the elements of art, the principles of design, and aesthetic qualities.
ESLR #3 Responsible Citizens
Administration - As a prevention strategy, administrators encourage students to participate in extra-curricular activities.
Business - Students take part in service learning opportunities and are encouraged to join the department-sponsored club FBLA (Future Business Leaders of America). Counseling Students participate in career exploration activities such as job shadowing.
English - Students develop an appreciation for other cultures through reading and analysis of literature. Students experience their community through a variety of projects such as a cultural mobile and inter-cultural project.
ELD - Students serve as mentors for other students who are new to the United States. Students also participate in presentations to educators at UCLA.
Foreign Language - Students develop an appreciation of different cultures through classroom activities and involvement in school language clubs.
Health and Guidance - Students complete ten hours of community service.
History/Social Science - Students participate in school and community activities
and receive extra credit awards.
Home Economics - Students learn to interact with the community through cooking and serving meals for the faculty.
Industrial Arts - Students participate in field trips involving other
schools and the community.
Mathematics - Students develop teamwork skills through cooperative learning. Physical Education - Students are healthy role models for the school and community. They play games and perform for audiences.
Science - Science Olympiad and JETS teams work together in community-sponsored science competitions.
Special Education - Students plant and maintain a garden on campus. The workability program offers internships to students through businesses in the community. Best Buddies is a friendship club that fosters communication between students from the special education population and the regular ed. population.
Visual and Performing Arts - Students describe and analyze the many ways art conveys meaning after viewing the arts in formal (field trips) and informal (class) settings.
Implement Ttechnology into the Instructional Process
Hoover High School possesses 556 computers for instruction, including:
Four Business/Computer department labs, Two Math labs, One Mobile Science Lab, 16 Library Media computers and 332 classroom computers.
Teachers have access to LCD projectors, digital cameras, video cameras and scanners.
Some of the available software includes: Windows, PowerPoint, PhotoShop, Dreamweaver, Printshop, the Math program Riverdeep, Chariot and Choices.
99% of teachers and 100% of administrators have e-mail accounts promoting collaboration, professional dialogue and communication with parents.
The following technology is used by Hoover students school wide:
- word processing to complete homework, reports and essays.
- PowerPoint for multimedia presentations for reports and research.
- Internet based research in addition to tutorials and simulations.
The following technology is being used by members of the faculty:
- internet research for lesson plan development.
- Grade Machine for student grade calculation.
- Power Point to present classroom lessons.
The new attendance and data collection program, "School Max" is being utilized to:
- take attendance in some classes on line.
- monitor student progress for placement purposes.
- maintain data base of students for reference purposes.
Because School Max is a new program implemented this year, the transition has been difficult for the entire staff.
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