MICHIGAN
CURRICULUM FRAMEWORK
Content
Standards and Benchmarks by Subject Area
(120
Total Content Standards)
Business
Management Services and Support
ENGLISH
LANGUAGE ARTS - 12 Content Standards
Meaning
and Communication:
1. All students will read and comprehend general
and technical material.
2. All students will demonstrate the ability to write
clear and grammatically correct sentences, paragraphs, and
compositions (demonstrate fluency for multiple purposes, recognize
techniques, edit texts, select appropriate language structure).
3. All students will focus on meaning and communication
as they listen, speak, view, read, and write in personal,
social, occupational, and civic contexts.
4. All students will use the English language
effectively.
Voice
:
5. All students will learn to communicate information
accurately and effectively and demonstrate their expressive
abilities by creating oral, written, and visual texts that
enlighten and engage an audience.
Skills
and Processes:
6. All students will demonstrate, analyze, and reflect
upon the skills and processes used to communicate through
listening, speaking, viewing, reading, and writing.
Genre
and Craft of Language:
7. All students will explore and use the characteristics
of different types of texts, aesthetic elements, and mechanics
- including text structure, figurative and descriptive language,
spelling, punctuation, and grammar - to construct and convey
meaning.
Inquiry
and Research:
8. All students will define and investigate important
issues and problems using a variety of resources, including
technology, to explore and create texts.
Critical
Standards:
9. All students will develop and apply personal, shared,
and academic criteria for the enjoyment, appreciation, and
evaluation of their own and others' oral, written, and visual
texts.
SOCIAL
STUDIES - 24 Content Standards
Inquiry:
1. All students will acquire information from books,
maps, newspapers, data sets and other sources, organize and
present the information in maps, graphs, charts and timelines,
interpret the meaning and significance of information, and
use a variety of electronic technologies to assist in accessing
and managing information.
SCIENCE
- 15 Content Standards
MATHEMATICS
- 13 Content Standards
Data
Analysis and Statistics:
1.
Students collect and store data, organize data into useful
form, and develop skill in representing and reading data,
displayed in different formats-collection, organization and
presentation of data.
CAREER
AND EMPLOYABILITY SKILLS - 10 Content Standards
Applied
Skills:
1. All students will apply basic communication skills
(e.g., reading, writing, speaking, and listening), apply scientific
and social studies concepts, and perform mathematical processes
in work-related situations.
Career
Planning:
2. All students will acquire, organize, interpret, and
evaluate information from career
awareness
and exploration activities, career assessment, and work-based
experiences to identify and pursue their career goals.
Developing
and Presenting Information:
3. All students will demonstrate the ability to combine
ideas or information in new ways, make connections between
seemingly unrelated ideas, and organize and present information
in formats such as symbols, pictures, schematics, charts,
and graphs.
Problem Solving:
4. All students will make decisions and solve problems
by specifying goals, identifying resources and constraints,
generating alternatives, considering impacts, choosing appropriate
alternatives, and evaluating results.
Personal
Management:
5. All students will display personal qualities
such as responsibility, self-management, ethical behavior,
and respect for self and others.
Organizational
Skills:
6. All students will identify, organize, plan, and allocate
resources (such as time, money, materials,
and human resources) efficiently and effectively.
Teamwork:
7. All students will work cooperatively with people of diverse
backgrounds and abilities, and will
contribute to a group process with ideas, suggestions, and
efforts.
Negotiation
Skills:
8. All students will communicate ideas to support a position
and negotiate to resolve
divergent
interests.
Understanding
Systems and Using Technology:
9. All students will understand complex systems, including
social and technical systems, and work
with a variety of technologies.
Using
Employability Skills:
10. All students will integrate employability skills
into behaviors which prepare one for
obtaining,
maintaining, advancing, and changing employment.
PHYSICAL
EDUCATION - 8 Content Standards
TECHNOLOGY
- 6 Content Standards
Using
and Transferring:
1. All students will use and transfer technological
knowledge and skills for life roles.
Using
Information Technologies:
2. All students will use technologies to input, retrieve,
organize, manipulate, evaluate, and communicate
information.
Applying
Appropriate Technologies:
3. All students will apply appropriate technologies to critical
thinking, creative expression,and
decision-making skills.
Employing
Systematic Approach:
4. All students will employ a systematic approach to technological
solutions by using resources and processes to create, maintain,
and improve products, systems, and environments.
Apply
Standards:
5. All students will apply ethical and legal standards
in planning, and using, and evaluating technology.
Evaluating
and Forecasting:
6. All students will evaluate the societal and environmental
impacts of technology and
forecast
alternative uses and possible consequences to make informed
civic, social, and
economic
decisions.
HEALTH
EDUCATION - 7 Content Standards
ARTS
EDUCATION (dance, music, theater, and visual arts - 5 Content
Standards
WORLD
LANGUAGES - 10 Content Standards
LIFE
MANAGEMENT EDUCATION - 10 Content Standards
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