21st Century Core Values & Beliefs
The mission of the department is to inspire, promote, empower, and facilitate the following in students:
- a quest for knowledge for and about business
- open-minded, individual thinkers and risk takers who can demonstrate professionalism
- the ability to meet professional standards and incorporate technology into everyday applications
- preparation for the various roles students will play as economically literate citizens and life-long learners
Department Outcomes
Students will:
- Communicate verbally by clearly articulating ideas and disseminating information through a variety of methods
- Integrate business concepts & skills with other academic knowledge
- Apply technology to analyze, synthesize, and evaluate situations at home, school, and work
- Practice skills to become an informed citizen, wise consumer, and a producer of goods and services
- Effectively manage personal finances
- Know themselves through self-assessment of interests, values, aptitudes, and personality
- Recognize and use available resources when faced with change and/or challenge
- Know how to use employment resources
- Make appropriate choices based on experiential learning
- Appreciate the fact that learning is life-long
- Understand the significance of thinking critically and creatively when problem-solving
WHS Graduation Outcome Performance Expectations Assessed:
- Demonstrate the skills to work independently
- Create career and education plans based on individual interests, skills, aptitudes, and values
- Present information or ideas using visual, artistic and/or technological mediums
- Observe critically
