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Alaska Framework: Using Standards to Build Educational Experience. Dec/96 vol: MATH / SCIENCE

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Murphy, Nancy ed.
Rutherford, Mark, ed.
Alaska Department of Education
December 1996

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Referenced by: ANKN Clearinghouse

Grade Level(s): K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

Theme(s): Living in Place, Tribe/Community

Excerpt:

Introduction to the Content of Math/Science:

[The Alaska 2000 Education Initiative restructures Alaskan schools to prepare students for the changing world in this technological age. The Alaska Content Standards were created to describe acceptable student performance. They are intended to raise the achievement of all students while ensuring that all students have equal educational opportunity. They are not intended to standardize the educational process in Alaska. Rather, they are designed as guideposts to help school districts define what they want their students to know, be able to do, and be committed to the 21st Century.

Local curriculum committees are expected to apply these content standards as they determine the curriculum guidelines for their schools and school districts. The curriculum decisions made locally will go far beyond the content standards. They will involve not only questions of content , or what is taught, but also extremely important decisions about how to structure, pace, present, and assess the teaching of that content.]

This chapter reviews content considerations in light of the Alaska 2000 goals and the Alaska Content Standards for Mathematics and Science. It provides a response to questions of how these outcomes might be achieved through continuums of experiences and expectations.

This resource was developed by the Alaska Department of Education.

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