2. Graduation Portfolio Modules
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Modules
Module 1 What is GPS?
Module 2 What are Performance Outcomes?
Module 3 How are Performance Outcomes
Connected to Our Standards?
Module 4 What kind of Instruction Supports our Work?
Module 5 How do I Design Performance Tasks?
Module 6 How do we Design Units that Support this
Work?
Module 7 What makes a High Quality Unit?
Module 8 How do we give Meaningful Feedback to
Students?
Module 9 How do we connect this GPS work to our work
across the network?
Module 10 How do Students Manage the Process?

3. Mapping Performance
Outcomes
Module 3

4. Objectives
Participants will be able to answer:
1.How are performance outcomes connected to
our standards?
2.How do performance outcomes align with our
curriculum?
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5. Review:
What are performance outcomes?
Performance outcomes identify
the skills and knowledge within
content areas that help
students develop global
competencies.
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6. Global Leadership
Performance Outcomes
KEY ELEMENTS:
Investigate the World
 Recognize and Weigh Perspectives
 Communicate Ideas
 Take Action
Are Global Leadership
Performance Outcomes already
dispersed throughout your
current curriculum?
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7. Mathematics
How do individuals use
mathematics as citizens
of the world?
The goal of the mathematics program
in an ISSN school is to develop an
individual’s capacity to identify and
understand the role that mathematics
plays in the world, to make well-
founded judgments, and to use and
engage with mathematics in ways that
meets the needs of that individual’s life
as a constructive, concerned, and
reflective citizen of the world. That is,
to contribute to the development of a
more just, peaceful, and sustainable
world.
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8. Mathematics Performance
Outcomes
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9. English Language Arts
How do individuals use
literacy to view the
world from a variety of
perspectives?
The goal of the English Language Arts
program in an ISSN school is to
broaden the selection of literature to
include works from around the world,
thus expanding the traditional canon of
literature with which students will
engage. Today, with so many books
from different parts of the world
available in English, infusing an
international perspective into English
language arts is easier than ever.
Adapted from Going Global: Preparing our Students for an
Interconnected World; ISSN Graduate Profile.
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10. ELA Performance Outcomes
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11. World Languages
The goal of the World Language
program in an ISSN school is to
develop students who are
linguistically and culturally
equipped to communicate
successfully in the United States
and abroad. ALL students will
develop and maintain proficiency
in English and at least one other
language, modern or classical.
ISSN Graduate Profile: Adapted from
American Council of Teaching of Foreign
Language (1996)
What does it mean to be a
literate citizen of the world?
Why is it
important for individuals
to be multi-lingual?
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12. World Languages
Performance Outcomes
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13. Arts
The goal of the Arts program in
an school is to develop students
who have a deep appreciation for
the international influences that
have informed American arts,
from pottery to dance, from film to
drama.
Adapted from Going Global: Preparing our Students
for an Interconnected World; ISSN Graduate Profile.
What does it mean
to be an artistic
citizen of the world?
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14. Arts Performance
Outcomes
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15. Science
The goal of the Science program in
an ISSN school is to develop
students who are rooted in science.
Understanding the roots and
implications of global problems and
learn the means by which, working
with peers around the globe, to solve
them.
Adapted from Going Global: Preparing our
Students for an Interconnected World; ISSN
Graduate Profile
What does it mean
to be a scientist of
the world?
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16. Science Inquiry Performance
Outcomes
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17. Science Literacy Performance
Outcomes
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18. History/Social Studies
The goal of the History/Social
Studies program is to develop
students understanding that no
country is an island, recognizing the
myriad cultural influences on U.S.
history, and contrasting our nation’s
story with those of other countries.
Adapted from Going Global: Preparing our
Students for an Interconnected World; ISSN
Graduate Profile
What does it mean to be a
social scientist of the world?
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19. History/Social Sciences
Performance Outcomes
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20. Feedforward
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Participants choose a question and
prepare to FeedForward.

21. The Work
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How are Performance Outcomes Connected to Our Standards?

22. Classroom Follow-up
How will we communicate
these ideas to the
student?
– Advisory?
– Content area courses?
– Schoolwide?
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