The Changing School

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The Changing School

• An Introduction to Content Standards

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Overview

• Objectives of Content Standards
• Establish a set of common expectations for what
  all students should know and be able to do upon
  completion of high school.

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Overview

• Performance expectations in the content areas
• English/Language Arts (reading and writing)
• Mathematics
• Science
• Social Studies
• Foreign Languages
• The Arts

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Who wrote the standards?

• Educators from grades K-12 including career
  technical, special education and gifted education
  teachers
• College and university faculty
• Parents
• Business and industry representatives

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Terms to Know

• Academic Content Standards
• Standards
• Benchmark
• Grade Level Bands
• Grade Level Indicators
• Assessment

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Resources

• Ohio Department of Education
• www.OhioAcademicStandards.com
• Ohio Graduation Tests
• www.ode.state.oh.us/proficiency/OGT/
• Previous Graduation Tests www.ode.state.oh.us/pr
  oficiency/OGT/previous.asp

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Resources

• Ohio Council of Teachers of English and Language
  Arts (OCTELA)
• www.octela.org
• National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)
• www.ncte.org
• International Reading Association (IRA)
• www.reading.org

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Resources

• National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
  (NCTM)
• www.nctm.org
• National Council of Social Studies (NCSS)
• www.socialstudies.org
• National Science Teachers Association (NSTA)
• www.nsta.org

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Resources

• American Alliance for Health, Physical Education,
  Recreation and Dance
• www.aahperd.org
• American Council on Teaching Foreign Languages
• www.actfl.org

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Resources

• English Language Arts (reading and writing)
• www.ode.state.oh.us/academic_content_standards/acs
  english.asp
• Mathematics Academic Content Standards
• www.ode.state.oh.us/academic_content_standards/acs
  math.asp
• Science Academic Content Standards
• www.ode.state.oh.us/academic_content_standards/acs
  science.asp
• Social Studies Academic content Standards
• www.ode.state.oh.us/academic_content_standards/acs
  socialstudies.asp

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Academic Content Standards

• Provide a set of clear and rigorous expectations
  for all students and provide teachers with
  clearly defined statements of what students
  should know and be able to do as they progress
  through school

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Performance Verbs

• Analyze
• Compare
• Describe
• Evaluate
• Explain
• Formulate
• Infer
• Predict
• Summarize
• Support
• Trace

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Standard

• A general statement of what all students should
  know and be able to do

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Standards

• Look at the standards in your content area
• How many standards are there for your content
  area?
• (i.e. English/Language Arts 10 standards)

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Benchmark

• A specific statement of what all students should
  know and be able to do at a specific time (key
  checkpoint) in their schooling.
• (i.e. at the University of Dayton a benchmark is
  being able to write a lesson plan)
• Find a Benchmark in your content area

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Benchmark

• Within Language Arts Phonemic Awareness, Word
  Recognition and Fluency Standard
• Demonstrate fluent oral reading using sight words
  and decoding skills, varying intonation and
  timing as appropriate for the text

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Grade Level Bands

• Format in which Benchmarks are organized

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Grade Level Bands

• Demonstrate fluent oral reading..
• This benchmark is within Grade Level Band of
  K-3rd grades

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Grade Level Indicators

• A specific statement of knowledge that all
  students demonstrate at each grade level. These
  indicators serve as checkpoints that monitor
  progress toward the benchmarks and standards

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Grade Level Indicators

• Demonstrate fluent oral reading.
• Two Grade Level Indicators for this benchmark
  would be
• In Grade Three read text using fluid and
  automatic decoding skills
• Demonstrate a growing stock of sight words

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Assessment

• The assumption about the content standards is
  that they serve as a basis for classroom,
  district, and state assessments.

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Assessment

• ASSESS-PLAN-TEACH-ASSESS
• Assessments could include
• Formal (standardized) and informal (teacher
  designed) reading tests at the classroom, school,
  district and state level to identify sight words
  or students fluency skills

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Ohio Resource Center for Math, Science, and
Reading

• www.ohiorc.org

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Exploring

• Get into content groups
• Visit some of the content sites
• University of Dayton/Taskstream template
• Design a lesson plan
• Think of a topic
• One period/class
• Use the content standards
• Think of your audience
• Activities-multiple intelligences/learning styles