MICHIGAN
CURRICULUM FRAMEWORK
Content
Standards and Benchmarks by Subject Area
(120
Total Content Standards)
Pre-Teaching
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.
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)
SCIENCE
(15 Content Standards)
Construct
New Scientific and Personal Knowledge:
•
All students will ask questions
that help them learn about the world; design and
conduct
investigations using appropriate methodology and technology;
learn from books and other sources of information; communicate
their findings using appropriate technology; and reconstruct
previously learned knowledge.
MATHEMATICS
(13 Content Standards)
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 see, 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:
•
All students will identify, organize,
plan, and allocate resources (such as time,
money,
materials, and human resources) efficiently and effectively.
Teamwork:
•
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:
•
All students will communicate
ideas to support a position and negotiate to resolve divergent
interests.
Understanding
Systems and Using Technology:
•
All students will understand complex
systems, including social and technical
systems,
and work with a variety of technologies.
Using
Employability Skills:
•
All students will integrate employability
skills into behaviors which prepare one for
obtaining,
maintaining, advancing, and changing employment.
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:
•
All students will use technologies
to input, retrieve, organize, manipulate, evaluate,
and
communicate information.
HEALTH
EDUCATION (7 Content Standards)
Social
Skills:
•
All students will demonstrate
effective interpersonal communication and other social skills
which enhance health.
ARTS
EDUCATION (dance, music, theater, and visual arts - 5 Content
Standards)
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.
Nurturing:
2.
All students will demonstrate the characteristic of nurturing.
Human
Development:
3.
All students will analyze factors which influence human development.
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