MICHIGAN
CURRICULUM FRAMEWORK
Content
Standards and Benchmarks by Subject Area
(120
Total Content Standards)
Radio
Production
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.
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)
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)
Use
Scientific Knowledge from the Physical Sciences in Real-World
Contexts:
1.
All students will describe sounds and sound waves; explain
shadows, color, and other light
phenomena;
measure and describe vibrations and waves; and explain how
waves and vibrations transfer energy.
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 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.
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
Information Technologies:
1.
All students will use technologies to input, retrieve, organize,
manipulate, evaluate, and
communicate
information.
Applying
Appropriate Technologies:
2.
All students will apply appropriate technologies to critical
thinking, creative expression,
and
decision-making skills.
Employing
Systematic Approach:
3.
All students will employ a systematic approach to technological
solutions by using
resources
and processes to create, maintain, and improve products,
systems, and environments.
Applying
Standards:
4.
All students will apply ethical and legal standards in planning,
using, and evaluating
technology.
Evaluating
and Forecasting:
5.
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)
Global
Community:
1.
All students will define and characterize the global community.
LIFE
MANAGEMENT EDUCATION (10 Content Standards)
Demographic
Change:
1.
All students will examine demographic changes and their impact
on society and the
family.
Impact
of Technology:
2.
All students will assess the effects of technology on the
family.
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