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| Developing Educational Standards Home Page | Updated 4.16.2007 | contact Charles Hill - chill @WappingersSchools.org |
Government Organizations
- Alabama: Classroom Improvement - To view copies of the state standards, select the publications pop-up link on the left of the screen and select the relevant subject. The list currently includes links to rich text documents for the arts, ELA, math, PE, science, and social studies. An 'Others' option leads to documents for foreign language, health, and a combination of K-8 technology and 9-12 computer applications. A 'Draft' link currently leads to a January 2005 science draft.
- Alaska: Alaska Content Standards - Links to pages with general content standards for the arts, ELA, health, information literacy, math, science, social studies, technology, and world languages.
- Arizona: Content Standards - Links to standards documents, most in Acrobat or MS Word format and many organized by grade level, in the areas of the arts, ELA, foreign and native language, functional standards (for students with significant disabilities), health and PE, math, science, social studies, technology, and workplace skills (such as decision making, problem solving, career awareness, technology, and computer skills).
- Colorado: Technology Skills Standards for PreK-12 Schools - Links to various documents that help define what teachers and students should know and be able to do with computers and become information literate.
- Connecticut: The Connecticut Framework - Download an Adobe Acrobat copy of the entire state framework or its individual sections for the arts, ELA, health, information technology, math, PE, science, social studies, technology, and world languages (the ELA link is to a 2003 draft while the math and science links are to 2004 drafts). There is a link to the state's overall standards for high school graduates, called the 'Common Core of Learning,' at the bottom of the page.
- Connecticut: Educational Technology - About a third of the way down this page is a section called 'Administrator's Corner' that has links to six instructional technology documents. These include one on technology competencies for teachers, one for administrators, and one for students.
- District of Columbia: Content Standards - This page contains a description of the district's standards-based system. Highlighted links to 'Standards for Teaching and Learning' at the elementary and secondary levels lead to Adobe Acrobat copies of standards documents for the arts, ELA, math, science, and social studies at each grade level. A typical document contains content standards, each with related general performance standards, more detailed 'essential skills,' and expectations for technology integration.
- Georgia: Georgia Learning Connections - A searchable web site that integrates the state's Quality Core Curriculum (QCC) standards with instructional and assessment resources. The QCC are being replaced by Georgia Performance Standards in the areas of ELA, math, science, and social studies. All other QCC subjects with remain within the QCC framework.
- Hawaii: Hawaii Content and Performance Standards Database - A searchable database that is part of the state's 'Standards Toolkit.' Select a subject and grade level to get relevant standards and in many, but not all, cases benchmarks and performance indicators for each standard. Links at the top of each set of search results lead to a related instructional guide, curriculum framework, and scope and sequence - all in Adobe Acrobat format. The toolkit has been designed to contain resources for ELA, math, science, social studies, career and technical education, educational technology, fine arts, health, PE, and world languages.
- Indiana: Indiana's Academic Standards & Resources - Standards for ELA, math, science and social studies by grade level through grade 8 and by high school course. By selecting the appropriate drop down menu, you can drill down into each subject area, grade level standard; once there, you can select a link to relevant classroom activities and classroom assessments. The site also has standards for guidance (academic, career, and citizenahip development), grouped by grade level clusters (K-2, 3-5, etc) and links to standards documents in the areas of business, career and technical programs, the arts, dance, FACS, foreign languages, health, library information literacy, physical education, technology, and theatre.
- Kansas: Curricular Standards, Resources and Model Standards - Standards with benchmarks and performance indicators for communications (reading and writing), dance, driver education, environmental education, ESL, health, library media, listening and speaking, math, music, physical education, reading, school counseling, science, social sciences, theater, visual arts, and world languages.
- Maryland: Technology in the Maryland Content Standards - Technology standards appear here and there within the ELA, math, science, and social studies standards. This document shows where/
- 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.
- Michigan: Michigan Department of Education - On the left side of the department's home page, click on the K-12 Curriculum link for access to the state's standards for the Arts, Career and Employability Skills, ELA, Health, Math, PE, Science, Social Studies, Technology, and World Languages. A click on the right side of the page on Grade Level Content button (under the MDE Quick Links heading) takes you to various pdfs or MS Word documents for parents and staff about grade level expectations in ELA and Math.
- Mississippi: K12 Curriculum Framework - Links to content area pges with frameworks and curriculum documents (mostly in MS Word format) in the areas of business and technology, foreign language, ELA, math, PE, science, social studies, visual and performing arts, and vocational education. In some cases, technology integration is highlighted in a resource guide specific to a particular subjects (the 2004 revision of the social studies framework, for example).
- Montana: Montana Content and Performance Standards - Adobe Acrobat copies of standards for the arts, career and vocational-technical education, ELA, health, library media, math, science, social studie, technology, workplace competencies, and world languages. The standards are benchmarked for the competion of grades 4, 8, and 12.
- Nebraska: Nebraska Technology Competencies - Links to the technology competencies expected of students, teachers, and administrators. Each link goes to a separate pdf.
- Nevada: Academic Standards - Content standards with grade level performance indicators in html, MS Word, and Acrobat format for the Arts, Career and Technical Education, Computers and Technology, ELA, English as a Second Language, Foreign Language, Health, Information Literacy, Math, PE, Science, and Social Studies.
- New Jersey: Core Curriculum Content Standards - Adopted in 1996 and subject to revision every five years, the NJ standards deal with the arts, career education, ELA, FACS, health, math, PE, science, social studies, technological literacy, and world languages. A typical document, available as both a web page and in Adobe Acrobat format, contains the relevant standards, strands, and progress indicators.
- New Jersey: NJPEP - NJPEP offers online professional development resources, including a link to state standards and a fair amount of supporting material. The latter include descriptions of the strands within the standards and various classroom activities.
- New Jersey: Core Curriculum Standards Resource - A searchable database of New Jersey standards
- North Carolina: North Carolina Standard Course of Study - Toward the bottom of the page you will find a grid of links that shows subjects (the arts, computer and technology skills, ELA, guidance, health, information skills, math, second languages, science, social studies, and workforce development) down the left side, grade levels (K to 8 are listed individually, 9-12 as a group), and clickable links where the two intersect. Each link on a subject area line goes to the same subject area page. Links on the that page generally go an Adobe Acrobat copy of subject area standards and competencies (if the subject has been revised within the past several years) or to a web version.
- North Dakota: State Standards - Links to Adobe Acrobat copies of the state's content standards (with benchmarks) and achievement standards for the arts, ELA (2004 provisional), foreign languages, health, math (2004 provisional), library and technology literacy, PE, science (including the 2005 draft), and social studies. Standards documents are grouped K-4, 5-8, and 9-12.
- Ohio: Ohio Instructional Management System - Use the various links on this site to browse or search the Ohio standards by grade, content area, or keyword and use the results to help build standards-based lessons.
- Oklahoma: Priority Academic Student Skils - Content standards with grade level performance indicators in both web and Adobe Acrobat format for the arts, ELA, foreign language, health, information literacy, instructional technology, math, PE, science, social studies, and technology education. This page also has a link to a searchable standards database.
- Oregon: Standards - Content and performance standards for the Arts, Careers, ELA, Foreign Language, Instructional Technology, Health, Math, PE, Science, and Social Studies (the performance standards for middle level math and ELA were published as drafts on November 19, 2004). The Standards page also has links to a specialized search page, an Oregon Standards Newspaper, and a Teaching and Learning Resource Center with standards-based instructional resources.
- Rhode Island: Standards, Instruction, and Student Assessment` - Links to standards, frameworks, and grade level expectations for the arts, early childhood education, ELA, FACS, health, library and information literacy, math, science, and social studies.
- South Carolina: Curriculum and Standards - Clicking on a book icon next to a subject area category leads to MS Word and Adobe Acrobat copies of curriculum standards for that area (choices: the arts, ELA, foreign language, health, math, PE, science, and social studies), while clicking on the name of the subject leads to a page with more information about that subject - including links to resources and lesson plans. This page also has several related documents, including a guide for parents and a link to the Soutth Carolina Teaching and Learning Connections.
- South Carolina: South Carolina Teaching Learning Connections - SCTLC, though a '.com' site, is sponsored by the state department of education as a core instructional resource for teaching (and learning how to teach) with standards. it includes a searchable database of state standards (in math, science, social studies, ELA, PE, and career and technical education), and instructional search engine linked to MarcoPolo, and a lesson plan builder (called 'Slate') that helps teachers create standards-based lessons.
- South Dakota: South Dakota Content Standards - Standards for agriculture education, business, reading and communictions arts, FACS, fine arts, health, math, PE, science, social studies, special education functional standards, technology, trade and industrial education, and world language. Most are in Word or pdf format; some are more detailed than others (math, for example), reflecting their more recent revision. (Revised science standards were published in January 2005, for example; math standards the year before.)
- Tennessee: Draft Computer Technology Curriculum Standards - A draft of the state's Computer Technology Curriculum Standards, presented to the State Board of Education in October 2004, that contains literacy and usage standards for K-12, programming for grades 9-12, and research and development standards for grades 9-12.
- Tennessee: Curriculum - Education - Links to state standards and performance indicators for subjects with state tests (ELA, Health, Math, Science, Social Studies), subjects without tests (Computer Technology, Dance, Early Childhood, ESL, Foreign Language, Music, PE, Theatre, and Visual Art), and vocational-technical areas (Agriculture, Business and Information Technology, FACS, Health Science, Marketing, Technology Education, and Trade and Industrial Education).
- Texas: Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) - State standards are embedded in the TEKS, published in 1998. The TEKS also serve as curriculum guidelines for elementary and middle school programs and for high school courses in the arts, career education, ELA, FACS, health and PE, languages other than English, math, science, social studies, and technology. A typical TEKS document contains lists of knowledge and skills that students should master at each grade level or in each high school course.
- Texas: Technology Applications TEKS - Among it documents, this site has a clear but abbreviated version of the computer technology and information literacy TEKS for students and the technology applications standards for all beginning educators.
- Utah: K-12 Core Curriculum - This site displays a grid, with subject areas down the side and grade levels across the top. Clicking on an intersecting square with a grade level number in it takes you to a page with relevant core standards, performance indicators, lesson plans, and links to other resources. The subject areas covered are the arts, business, educational technology, FACS, health, the core K-2 program, ELA, library media, math, PE, science, social studies, technology, and world language.
- Vermont: Vermont's Framework of Standards and Learning Opportunities - Published in 2000, the state's standards and performance indicators are groupd pre-K-4, 5-8, and 9-12 in the areas of Communications (including information technology); Reasoning and Problem Solving; Personal Development (including health and workplace competencies); Civic and Social Responsibility; the Arts, Language, and Literature (including second language); History and Social Science; and Science, Mathematics, and Technology. Grade expectations in each area were updated in 2004 and published on the web site through early 2005 for the Arts, Health, History and Social Studies, Information Technology, Math, Reading and Writing, Non-native Language,PE, and Science.
- Virginia: Standards of Learning - Standards of Learning documents, available in MS Word and Adobe Acrobat versions by subject area or grade level within subject area, contain k-12 standards and performance indicators in the areas of the arts, computer technology, driver education ELA, foreign language, health, math, PE, science, and social studies. This site also has web versions of the curriculum frameworks for ELA, math, science, and social studies. The state is revising one or two subjects a year. Computer technology is slated for a new adoption in June 2005, with the fine arts up in 2006, foreign language in 2007, and social studies, health, PE, and deiver education in 2008.
- Virginia: Technology Standards for Instructional Personnel - In 1998, the state enacted a requirement that schools implement a core set of technology standards for teachers (and, presumably, administrators) into their technology plans. The standards are based on the ones developed by ISTE.
- Wisconsin: Wisconsin Model Academic Standards - Published in 1997 and 1998, the state's standards documents show standards and performance indicators for the end of grades 4, 8, and 12 in the areas of ELA, Math, Science, and Social - each of which gets its own set of web pages; and (in pdf format) Agriculture, Art and Design, Business, Dance, Environmental Education, FACS, Foreign Language, Health, Information and Technology Literacy, Marketing, Music, PE, Technology Education, and Theatre.