Educational Standards

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Educational Standards

• Chapter 1

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The Needs of the Learner

• Acceptance and safety (Bronfenbrenner, Maslow)
• Choice (Differentiation)
• High expectations and appropriate challenge
  (Bloom, Marzano, Vygotsky)
• Opportunity to connect the new to the known
  (Cognitive)
• Meaningful engagement (Constructivist)
• Clarity (Direct Instruction, Task Analysis)
• Time to reflect (Metacognition)
• Align assessment

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The Needs of Society

• Learning Standards
• North Carolina Standard Course of Study (NCSCOS)-
  http//www.dpi.state.nc.us/curriculum/
• US National Standards
• http//www.education-world.com/standards/
• (Note you will be directed to other websites to
  retrieve content standards)
• Measured by High Stakes testing-Acountability

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Translating Standards to Instruction

• Instruction a purposeful activity with a means
  to an end. The ends described as goals or
  objectives.
• Goals broad statements of desirable outcomes
• Objectives more specific statements of desirable
  outcome
• Given(condition) the student will (capability
  verb) by (action) . Then criteria.