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  • Content Standards: Connecting Standards-Based Curriculum to Instructional Planning (Archived)
Challenge
Initial Thoughts
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How will Ms. Begay know she is teaching her students everything they need to learn this year?

  • 1: Standards
  • 2: Standards-based Curriculum
  • 3: Curriculum
  • 4: Benchmarks
  • 5: Putting It All Together

What should Ms. Begay find out about her students before planning her curriculum units and lessons?

  • 6: Gather Information
  • 7: Understand the Learning Process
  • 8: Adapt Instruction

How will Ms. Begay know if her lesson plans are effective and her students are learning?

  • 9: Assessing Students Using Performance Measures
  • 10: Monitoring Student Progress
  • 11: Implementing the Instructional Cycle

What should Ms. Begay know about creating effective lesson plans?

  • 12: Curriculum Mapping
  • 13: Year-long Planning
  • 14: Curriculum Planning Guidelines
  • 15: Unit Plan Design
  • 16: Lesson Plan Design

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  • 17: References & Additional Resources
  • 18: Credits
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Content Standards: Connecting Standards-Based Curriculum to Instructional Planning (Archived)

Assessment

Take some time now to answer the following questions. Please note that the IRIS Center does not collect your Assessment responses. If this is a course assignment, you should turn them in to your professor using whatever method he or she requires. If you have trouble answering any of the questions, go back and review the Perspectives & Resources pages in this module.

  1. cnm_assess5What are content standards and benchmarks, and how are they used?
  2. Which student learning characteristics should teachers identify before developing instruction? Why is this important?
  3. Describe the information-processing model of learning.
  4. Adapting instruction is important. Discuss two reasons why this is so.
  5. Name three components of a good assessment.
  6. Describe three stages of the instructional cycle.
  7. What should guide teachers’ planning in order to meet the needs of all students?
  8. How should teachers identify lesson topics to include in instruction?

 

 

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