Content standards and curriculum frameworks
The content standards adopted by the State Board of Education describe what students should know and be able to do in each major subject area. The standards are established for each grade level or are specific to that course. Within each content standard, the degree of rigor that students are expected to achieve aligns to Benjamin Bloom’s cognitive taxonomy, including knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, or evaluative levels of critical thinking.
The curriculum frameworks provide guidance for teachers implementing the content standards along with instructional support that helps every student meet or exceed the content standards. The frameworks are a road map for aligning curriculum, instruction, and professional development to the content standards for each subject area. Some subjects (e.g., health and foreign languages) do not yet have content standards. The frameworks for those subject areas provide a scope and sequence for curriculum and instruction in those areas.
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