Big Four: Well-Articulated Curriculum


State Standards USA
http://www.academicbenchmarks.com/search/

Sizing Up State Standards 2008
http://www.aft.org/pubs-reports/downloads/teachers/standards2008.pdf

State of the State Standards 2006
http://www.edexcellence.net/detail/news.cfm?news_id=358

California State Standards
http://www.cde.ca.gov/be/st/ss/

New York State Standards
http://www.emsc.nysed.gov/deputy/Documents/learnstandards.htm

Indiana State Standards
http://www.doe.in.gov/standards/welcome2.html

These are examples of curriculum documents created by various school districts.  The documents are used by teachers to establish learning goals and objectives as described by Pollock in Chapter 2 of Improving Student Learning One Teacher at a Time (ASCD, 2007).

Baldwinsville Central School District
Baldwinsville, New York

Oshkosh School Distict
Oshkosh, Wisconsin

Whitney Young Elementary
Louisville, Kentucky


These are examples of sites to visit to find examples of non-content (self-regulation, lifelong learning, information processing) curriculum standards:

http://www.habits-of-mind.net/
Art Costa and Bena Kallick

Character Education
http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/reports/topic.aspx?tid=12

Thinking Skills
http://www.adprima.com/thinkskl.htm
http://education.calumet.purdue.edu/vockell/EdPsyBook/Edpsy7/edpsy7_reasoning.htm

Thinking with Technology
http://www.big6.com/

ISTE NETS 2008
http://www.iste.org/Content/NavigationMenu/NETS/ForTeachers/2008Standards/NETS_for_Teachers_2008.htm
http://www.iste.org/Content/NavigationMenu/NETS/ForStudents/iNETS/NETS-T_2008_Spanish.pdf