What are the five most critical things you want the students in your class to learn this year? By learn, we mean everything that the student should have upon leaving the class that (s)he did not have upon entering.

Interpreting and identifying. Evaluation, investigating power.

--High-track science, junior high
Deal with thinking activities--Think for basic answers--essay-type questions.
--High-track English, junior high
Ability to reason logically in all subject areas.
--High-track math, senior high
The art of research.
--High-track English, senior high
Learn how to test and prove ideas. Use and work with scientific equipment. Learning basis scientific facts and principles.
--High-track science, junior high
Ability to think for themselves.
--High-track science, senior high
How to evaluate--think objectively. To think logically and with clarity and to put it on paper. To be able to appreciate a variety of authors' works and opinions without judging them by their own personal standards.
--High-track English, senior high