Developing Educational Standards

| Developing Educational Standards Home Page | Updated 2.23.2005 | contact Charles Hill - chill @WappingersSchools.org |

MASSACHUSETTS Department of Education
Massachusetts: Frameworks - Links to current curriculum frameworks for the arts, ELA, foreign language, health, math, science and technology, and social studies; to ELL proficiency benchmarks and outcomes; and to supplements to existing frameorks. Most documents are in Adobe Acrobat format; a few are in MS Word; the math document is also available in a web version that has built-in links to explanations of key terms and to sample problems.
Massachusetts: Professional Standards for Educations - Standards for administrators and teachers. The administrator standards fall into five areas: leadership, administration, equity, community relationships, and professional responsibilities. There are two kinds of teacher standards: standards for everyone who is not a library or a speech, language, and hearing disorder teacher - and standards for everyone else. Standards for the first group deal with planning instruction, delivering instruction, classroom management, promoting equity, and meeting professional responsibilities. Librarians have 16 standards. There are not standards listed for the speech teachers.
Massachusetts: Educational Technology - The 2001 preK-12 instrucitonal technology standards for students (Acrobat format), a technology self-assessment tool for teachers that can be downloaded in Adobe Acrobat format or completed online, and recommended criteria for distance learning courses.