In this section, we have provided you with the following tools to help you acquire professional development credit for this workshop. If you are interested, we suggest that you print these items and discuss them with your administrator. In this section of the workshop, participants will examine what standards are, what they mean, how they are set and by whom, why they are important, and the kinds of criticisms surrounding standards-based curriculum. Participants learn that standards are the WHAT of education, while curriculum and instruction are the HOW. 2. Participants examine how parents, students, and teachers can ask through written documents whether their school is helping students reach the agreed-upon benchmarks.
Participants examine how standards guide what is taught in their classroom.
Participants examine how national organizations and most states embark on their own standards-setting processes. Another Perspective a. Participants read a transcript of an interview with Marc S. Tucker, an educational theorist and standards advocate, in which he answers questions about standards. Participants examine how teachers can see how well they are doing by looking at their progress towards standards. Participants see how students learn better in a standards-based environment because everybody's working toward the same goal. Participants examine how critics of standards tend to fall into three major camps with specific platforms.