At The White Mountain School, we believe learning is multidimensional.  Our learning outcomes help students understand their particular strengths and encourage them to develop into complete learners.  Students are assessed on each of the six learning outcomes, then these grades are averaged to determine a course grade.  The learning outcomes are as follows:

• Knowledge: Successful students have a high level of content mastery.  To be successful, students must acquire, integrate, and synthesize information. In addition, they learn to use this information in novel situations. 

• Critical Thinking: Nearly all classes are discussion-based, where students are challenged to use a variety of complex reasoning strategies. For example: concrete, sequential thinkers learn to develop abstract thinking skills, and random thinkers are taught to think more sequentially.

• Self-Direction: The self-directed learner, according to White Mountain, is the student who pushes personal limits, sets clear goals, and manages his/her own progress towards those goals.

• Communications: Students learn to organize and express ideas clearly and to communicate effectively to diverse audiences, using a variety of media.

• Information Processing: Students learn to differentiate and assess the validity of information sources then they learn to interpret and analyze the information effectively.

• Collaboration: Students learn to monitor and regulate their behavior in a task-oriented group environment, in order to develop as productive contributors toward group goals.