Education - Just for Teachers: Standards

Below are PDF files of the Common Core ELA Standards.  Also, there is a document detailing how to impelement the Common Core ELA Standards both in your classroom and school community.

Below are the PDF files of the Common Core Math Learning Standards.  A great resource for math teachers is IXL, which helps students to build their skills and master the Math Common Core Standards.

Educational standards guide teachers in the process of constructing lessons and units of studies.  These standards, "unpacked" and analyzed, provide teachers with the opportunity to make these standards attainable for their students and applicable to the content which they are studying.

For more information on standards, please visit this online workshop provided by THIRTEEN ed online.

Below is a video explaining the reasoning behind the Common Core Standards.

The following videos, supplied by the Colordao Department of Education, go through the process of unpacking the standards so to guide teachers as they plan their units of study.  These three videos explain the importance of analyzing the standards word by word, in order to get the most out of the standards prior to starting your planning process.

The following standards from the National Council for Social Studies have been created for Curriculum Development within Social Studies classrooms.