A Parents Guide to Standards and Assessment Included with our monthly newsletter is a special handout explaining the new state guidelines on Standards and Assessments. This handout explains fully what the state standards are, and also goes into detail on the new state assessment of those standards. Align grade level Benchmarks with our academic curriculum. Develop Authentic Assessment for our standards. These Performance Based Assessments will have our students demonstrating learning and applying the learned knowledge to real-life applications.
Teachers annually review the test results looking for strengths and weaknesses.
These trends are analyzed and focused upon throughout the school year. Our biggest concern on this continual improvement of instruction and learning is finding the time to work together as grade levels and as buildings. Currently we have limited time at the beginning of the school year and a few days throughout the year. In order for these standards to be effective and for genuine learning to take place we have discovered that we, as a school, cannot do it alone. We need your assistance.