1. Graduation Portfolio System (GPS)
GLOBAL LEADERSHIP
PERFORMANCE OUTCOMES
Investigate the World: Recognize and Weigh Perspectives:
Produce New Global Knowledge Apply Cross-Cultural Understanding
Students investigate the world, including their Students recognize their own and others’
immediate environment and beyond. perspectives.
• Identify a locally, regionally or globally focused • Recognize and express their own perspective on
issue and frame researchable questions. situations, events, issues or phenomena and
identify the influences on that perspective.
• Use a variety of international and domestic
sources, media, and languages to identify and • Examine perspectives of other people, groups, or
weigh relevant evidence to address a globally schools of thought and identify the influences on
significant researchable question. those perspectives.
• Analyze, integrate and synthesize evidence • Explain how cultural interactions influence
collected to construct coherent responses to situations, events, issues or phenomena,
globally significant researchable questions. including the development of knowledge.
• Develop an argument based on compelling • Articulate how differential access to knowledge,
evidence that considers multiple perspectives technology and resources affects quality of life
and draws defensible conclusions. and perspectives.
Communicate Ideas: Take Action:
Connect & Collaborate Across Boundaries Enact Global Solutions
Students communicate and collaborate Students translate their ideas and findings into
effectively with diverse audiences. appropriate actions to improve conditions.
• Recognize and express how diverse audiences • Identify and create opportunities for personal or
may perceive different meanings from the same collaborative action to address situations, events,
information and how that impacts issues or phenomena in ways that improve
communication. conditions.
• Listen to and communicate effectively with • Assess options and plan actions based on
diverse people, using appropriate verbal and evidence and the potential for impact, taking into
non-verbal behavior, languages and strategies. account previous approaches, varied
perspectives and potential consequences.
• Select and use appropriate technology and
media to communicate and collaborate with • Act, personally or collaboratively, in creative and
diverse audiences. ethical ways to contribute to improvement locally,
regionally or globally and assess the impact of
• Reflect on how effective communication impacts the action.
understanding and collaboration in an
interdependent world. • Reflect on their capacity to advocate for and
contribute to improvement locally, regionally, or
globally.
DRAFT, January 2010 Asia Society Partnership for Global Learning, v.3, format 4/2010