Content Standards: Connecting Standards-Based Curriculum

Name: Cheridania Pena

EDC 312 Module Fall 2017

Content Standards: Connecting Standards-Based Curriculum to Instructional Planning

Based on the module and in doing a bit of research on your own, please answer the following questions. Be sure to put answers in your own words!

1. What are content standards and benchmarks, and how are they used?

Standards can be split into two different ways. The content standards are guidelines which guide the crucial skills, knowledge, and understanding that students must have learned during certain amount time in certain content areas. It shows what the student is supposed to learn a lesson. Performance or achievement standards list the level of understatement of the content, the student is expected to

Some learning characteristics that should be applied are background knowledge and experience, learning styles such as whether the student learns best with the presence of visual aid or hands-on activities, academic strengths, improvement areas,how they deal with corrections and how they develop after, if it influences their interested, develop their talents, the language they use at home,

The stages suggest that in the instructional cycle are intended instruction outcomes, planning, and assessment. In the intended instructional outcome stage, teachers identify the content standards and benchmark their unit will address. Then measurable learning outcomes are given from the content standards. After this is completed, the teacher has a guide that shows what she wants her students to learn, understand, and which standards her students will meet. In the planning stage, the teacher should create lesson plans by having in mind effective teaching and instructional strategies to incorporating them into the lesson plan. Assessments must come with a lesson plan, and the students most me engaged. The last stage, assessments will be presented to the students and decision will be made on whether standards and the intended learning outcomes have been met.

4. For the topic you selected for your lesson plan, please research 3 possible standards you may use in your lesson plan. You will not use all of these in your final lesson plan but this is a good place to start in planning. Be sure to include where you got these standards from so you can refer back to them during our