This is a question for the teachers. When designing a lesson plan for use at your school, how important is it that the lesson be linked explicitly to a standard?
For example, on page 230 of the
California Science Framework
Standard 1d says "Students know the central dogma of molecular biology outlines the flow of information from transcription of ribonucleic acid (RNA) in the nucleus to translation of proteins on ribosomes in the cytoplasm." Would you have to cite that standard if you were preparing a lesson on molecular biology?
I ask because curriculum developers constantly hear that "all activities have to be directly linked to the standards" when designing lessons and materials.
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They would like us to link standards to our lesson plans.
Although we are expected to have all lessons linked to the standards, the administration wouldn't check individual lessons. When we submit proposals for a new course, the district requires that we list each "activity" (ie. labs) and their connection to the standards.
Standard Driven Instruction is very important at my school.
Our lessons and units must start with the standard. We work with the concept of backwards planning. What is the standard, what are the objectives of the standard and then go into how to teach to these objectives.
We have a pacing chart developed by the district with a time line for covering key standards. We are even asked to develop interventions for students who are not successful learning the standards.
We are required to have our standards posted on the board and have our student able to identify what standard they are learning about each day.
I often include the standard we are learning on handouts I give students and I have given them a copy of the standards to paste in their lab books. I look at the vocabulary of the standards and try to not only teach the science terms, but also the terms used in the standard being taught like “central dogma”. To the majority of English learners in my class there is a lot to teach.
Like Ruth, standards addressed in each lesson need to be very explicit.
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