High School Learning

High School Sample Course Social Studies Sequence:

9th grade:   Elective

10th grade: Global 1 & 2 Semestered

11th grade: U.S. History 

12th grade: 1 semester of Participation in Government/ 1 semester of Economics 

Click Here for the complete OHS Program Studies Guide.

The Capstone project at OHS is a year long, authentic, cross curricular research project in the humanities courses (ELA and Social Studies) that will be supported by the AMD library curriculum.  Students choose a topic of study to explore and research focused on the Hudson Valley. During this process, students direct their own learning with help and guidance from their teachers.

Quizzes and tests are routinely administered as part of the on-going assessment process within classes at both the Middle School and High School. These assessments may be given at any time, but are commonly used at the end of chapters and units. Most classes also administer mid-term and final exams.

Below please see a link to the Next Generation Learning Standards.  Use the menu at the top to find necessary information.  

PK-12 Common Core Learning Standards in ELA and Mathematics

Regents Exams:
NY State administers Regents Exams in many subjects in the High School. Beginning in 8th grade some advanced level students take Earth Science and Algebra Regents classes, which culminate with Regents Exams. All other Regents exams are administered in the High School. Regents courses and exams are administered in the following subjects: English Language Arts, Math (Algebra I, Algebra II/Trigonometry, Integrated Algebra, Geometry), Science (Earth Science, Living Environment, Chemistry, Physics), Social Studies (Global, U.S. History & Government), and World Languages (Spanish, French, Italian).

NYS 2021-2022 Memo

• January Regents Schedule - January 25-28, 2022
• June Regents Schedule 2022 - June 1 (the first administration of the new Regents Examination in U.S. History and Government)                                                     
  • Tuesday, June 15 through Friday, June 24 (no testing on Monday, June 20th)
• August Regents Schedule 2022 - August 16th & August 17th

Thinking Maps are organizational tools that provide our students with a common language for thinking. They are tools that help our Ossining students organize their thinking visually and comprehend new information. There are eight thinking maps each representing the eight thinking processes of all learners. They are used to help children think and reconstruct new thinking by sharing their thinking with others. Children learn to define and brainstorm, classify and sort, describe, sequence and order, analyze whole objects and parts, see analogies, compare and contrast, and determine the cause and effect of events. Our entire district has been trained in Thinking Maps, pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade.

SIOP, Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol is a framework for teaching and learning. It has proven to be effective in addressing the academic needs of English New Learners. The eight components which include lesson preparation, building background knowledge, comprehensible input, strategies, interaction, practice and application, lesson delivery and review and assessment are interrelated and have the power to meet all our student needs as well. Teachers in the Ossining School District have been trained in SIOP with the purpose of engaging not only our ENL students, but all students in meaningful learning opportunities.