The new standards focus on what students know and can do. In standards based education the instruction, assignments, and assessments of student achievement are squarely focused on what and how well students are learning. Teachers, students, and parents have clear expectations for students achievement. The implementation of the standards based graduation rule is designed to raise the required level of achievement for all children and to make education relevant to academic, workplace, and community productivity and success. Standards are clearly defined expectations against which individual student achievement and progress may be determined.
Standards outline what a student needs to both know and do in a particular subject.
B. Analyze patterns and relationships of ideas, topics or themes. C. Construct support for a position, arguments, plan, or idea, and D. Evaluate an idea, topic, or theme based on expressed criteria. Performance Package is the term used to describe the collection of assignments, tests, and projects that students will complete in order to show evidence of their work on a standard. The state has provided examples or models, but as a district, we will decide whether to use them as written, adapt them, or create our own. Children will learn math, reading, writing, social studies, science and other traditional subjects.