Hawaii State Department of Education
The Hawaii Content and Performance Standards (HCPS II) sets
the foundation for Hawaii's public school curriculum, instruction, assessment, professional development, and accountability
systems. HCPS II includes ten content areas: Career and Life Skills, Educational Technology, Fine Arts, Health,
Language Arts, Mathematics, Physical Education, Science, Social Studies, and World Languages. Content Standards
define what students should know, be able to do and care about. Performance Standards clearly describe quality
products or performance with examples of student work and commentary on how that work demonstrates student attainment
of the standard.
There are six General Learner Outcomes (GLOs) that are the goals of standards-based learning in all content areas:
- Self-Directed Learner: The ability to be responsible for one's own learning
- Community Contributor:The understanding that it is essential for human beings to work together
- Complex Thinker: The ability to be involved in complex thinking and problem solving
- Quality Producer: The ability to recognize and produce quality performance and quality products
- Effective Communicator: the ability to communicate effectively
- Effective and Ethical User of Technology: the ability to use a variety of technology effectively and ethically.
The GLOs are the essential overarching goals for all grade levels -- from elementary through middle to high -- and all of the academic disciplines. Every content and performance standard should support the learner's progress towards these outcomes because they enable learners to lead full and productive lives.
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....Our standards set the course, while students, families, and community fill the sails with expectation as we voyage with the treasure of bright, young minds ready to lead the way to the future.
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