Content Standards

Instructional Cycle

1. Intended instructional outcomes 2.Planning 3.Assessment

Adapting Instruction

Adapting instruction can be defined as making changes to instruction in order to allow students equal access to the curriculum and to give them the opportunity to process and demonstrate what has been taught.

2 types of standards

Content and Performance

Content standards

Content standards refer to what gets taught in specific content areas (e.g., reading, language arts, mathematics, science, history).

Curriculum

Curriculum can be defined as a school's plan of instruction: how, when, and what students will be taught, what content will be covered, and what students ought to have learned after they've completed a specific course or grade.

Curriculum Mapping

Curriculum mapping is a tool used to gather information about what has been taught in a classroom over a specific period of time.

English language learner standards

Give students freedom to explore and examine more deeply presented information independently decreases the pressure, frustrations, and fear often associated with learning new information in a non-primary language.

Monitor student progress

Linking curriculum standards to instruction and assessment is critical to the achievement of effective learning.

Curriculum omissions

Occurs when a decision is made not to include a given piece of information in the classroom instruction

Curriculum overload

Occurs when the range of the content is too broad and students do not have enough instructional time to learn.

Performance Standards

Performance or achievement standards refer to the level of mastery of the content that the student is expected to attain.

2 types of curriculum

Taught and Learned

Benchmarks

Teachers use benchmarks as targets for their instruction and to monitor student progress so they can adjust instruction as needed. Benchmarks allow teachers to reflect on students' strengths and needs.

Learned curriculum

The information that students learn as a result of being in the classroom and interacting with the taught curriculum is the learned curriculum.

Standards-based Curriculum

The standards-based curriculum or the intended curriculum is the official or adopted curriculum contained in state or district policy.

Taught curriculum

The techniques used by teachers during instruction, such as lectures and discussions, are part of the taught curriculum.

Scope and Sequence

Timeline of how to teach the curriculum.

State and district assessments are....

linked directly to the content and performance standards contained in the standards-based curriculum.

Modifications

services or support related to a student's disability in order to help a student access the subject matter and demonstrate knowledge, but in this case the services and supports do fundamentally alter the standard or expectation of the assignment or test

Accommodations

services or support related to a student's disability that help her or him to fully access the subject matter and accurately demonstrate such knowledge without fundamental alterations to the standard or expectation of the assignment or test.