Content
Knowledge: A Compendium of Standards and Benchmarks
for K12 Education
John S. Kendall and Robert J.Marzano are the authors of
this site which provides background and history to the
development of the national standards along with links
to the standards themselves. http://www.mcrel.org/standards-benchmarks/
Developing
Educational Standards
Annotated list of Internet sites with K-12 educational
standards and curriculum frameworks documents. Site
includes links to the standards documents along with links
to curricula utilizing the standards in various geographic
locations. http://edStandards.org/Standards.html
Standards
by States
National Board
for Professional Teaching Standards
Independent organization working to develop professional
standards for teachers. Site currently offers a policy
statement and five propositions that form the rationale
for the creation of such standards, a desciption of the
process used for standards development, and summaries of
the standards already prepared. http://www.nbpts.org/
Missouri Standards
Missouri Department of Elementary & Secondary Education Main DESE WebPage that contains information about school law, current school legislation, Missouri schools with WebPages, teacher certification, school finance any many sites.
Missouri Grade Level Expectations (GLEs) All curriculum you create needs to be aligned to the GLEs.
Missouri Assessment Program [MAP] Show-me Standards Listing and examples of the content Missouri Show-me Standards, examples of assessements, etc.
American Association for the Advancement of Science's Project 2061
"K-12 educational reform to improve science and technology literacy for all citizens". Information about the development of "Science for All Americans" (1989), "Benchmarks for Science Literacy" (1994), supplementary materials and future projects is presented at this site. A link to order these materials is provided to Oxford University Press. http://www.aaas.org/
ISTE
Recommended Foundations in Technology for All Teachers
Computer technology standards for all teachers which were
developed by the International Society for Technology Education.
National Council
for the Social Studies
Links to an abbreviated version of its Curriculum
Standards for Social Studies and Teacher Education
Standards. The latter is a lengthy presentation of what
the NCSS believes individuals should know and be able to
do. http://www.ncss.org/
National
Council of Teachers of English
The National Council of Teachers of English has ordering
information for the English Language Arts Standards and
several supplementary books, a short summary of the standards,
and several relevant news articles. Its site also shows
a link to guidelines for the preparation of English teachers
but the link was not active as of December 1, 1997.http://www.ncte.org/
National
Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The NCTM home page itself contains links to
various aricles and op-ed style pieces about standards
that have appeared in NCTM journals. http://www.nctm.org/
National Science
Teachers Association
The National Science Teachers Association home page has
information about various activities related to the development
of science standards and frameworks. Its Scope, Sequence & Coordination
Project, hosted by Microsoft's Global Schoolhouse, has
an extremely comprehensive curriculum-focused site, billed
as containing over 2000 pages of high school science teaching
resources. The site has extensive sets of lessons and lesson
materials for biology, chemistry, earth and space science,
and physics - all tied to the National Science Education
Standards (NSES) and the NSTA's Scope, Sequence, and Coordination
subject areas. Standards.
http://www.nsta.org/
U.S.
History Standards
The National Center for History in the Schools site is
at UCLA.
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/nchs/standards.html