MICHIGAN
CURRICULUM FRAMEWORK
Content
Standards and Sample High School Benchmarks by Subject Area
(120
Total Content Standards)
Interior
Design
ENGLISH
LANGUAGE ARTS (12 Content Standards)
Meaning and Communication:
•
All students will read and comprehend
general and technical material.
•
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).
•
All students will focus on meaning
and communication as they listen, speak, view, read, and write
in personal, social, occupational, and civic contexts.
•
All students will use the English
language effectively.
Voice
:
•
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:
•
All students will demonstrate,
analyze, and reflect upon the skills and processes used to
communicate through listening, speaking, viewing, reading,
and writing.
Ideas
in Action:
•
All students will apply knowledge,
ideas, and issues drawn from texts to their lives and the
lives of others.
Inquiry
and Research:
•
All students will define and investigate
important issues and problems using a variety of resources,
including technology, to explore and create texts.
Critical
Standards:
•
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)
Historical Perspective:
•
All students will reconstruct
the past by interpretations written by others from a
variety
of perspectives and creating narratives from evidence.
Geographic
Perspective:
•
All students will describe, compare,
and explain the locations and characteristics of
places,
cultures, and settlements.
Inquiry:
•
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)
Patterns, Relationships and Functions:
1.
Students recognize similarities and generalize patterns, use
patterns to create
models
and make predictions, describe the nature of patterns
and relationships, and construct representations of
mathematical relationships.
Geometry
and Measurement:
2.
Students develop spatial sense, use shape as an analytic and
descriptive tool, identify
characteristics
and define shapes, identify properties and describe
relationships among shapes.
3.
Students identify locations of objects, identify location
relative to other objects,
and
describe the effects of transformations (e.g. sliding,
flipping, turning, enlarging, reducing) on an object.
4.
Students compare attributes of two objects, or of one object
with a standard (unit),
and
analyze situations to determine what measurement(s)
should be made and to what level of precision.
Data
Analysis and Statistics:
5.
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.
Number Sense and Numeration:
6.
Students recognize that numbers are used in different ways
such as counting,
measuring,
ordering and estimating, understand and produce multiple
representations of a number, and translate among equivalent
representations.
Probability
and Discrete Mathematics:
7.
Students investigate practical situations such as scheduling,
routing, sequencing,
networking,
organizing and classifying, and analyze ideas such as
recurrence relations, induction, iteration, and algorithm
design.
CAREER
AND EMPLOYABILITY SKILLS (10 Content Standards)
Applied Skills:
•
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:
•
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:
•
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:
•
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:
•
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.
Using
Employability Skills:
9.
All students will integrate employability skills into behaviors
which prepare one for
obtaining,
maintaining, advancing, and changing emp
PHYSICAL
EDUCATION (8 Content Standards)
Personal
and Social Character Traits:
•
All students will demonstrate
appropriate behavior (at least 95% of the time) related to
selected personal/social character traits that commonly emerge
in a physical activity context.
TECHNOLOGY
(6 Content Standards)
Using and Transferring:
•
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.
HEALTH
EDUCATION (7 Content Standards)
ARTS
EDUCATION (dance, music, theater, and visual arts - 5 Content
Standards)
Performing:
•
All students will apply skills
and knowledge to perform in the arts.
Creating:
•
All students will apply skills
and knowledge to create in the arts.
WORLD
LANGUAGES (10 Content Standards)
LIFE
MANAGEMENT EDUCATION (10 Content Standards)
Balance of Work and Family:
•
All students will demonstrate
skill necessary to function in family roles and relationships
which are transferable to roles and responsibilities within
the workplace and community.
Human
Development:
2.
All students will analyze factors which influence human development.
Decision-making:
3.
All students will demonstrate responsible personal and family
decision-making.
Demographic
Change:
4.
All students will examine demographic changes and their impact
on society and the
family.
Using
Community Resources:
5.
All students will demonstrate the use of community resources
to solve individual
and
family issues.
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