MICHIGAN
CURRICULUM FRAMEWORK
Content
Standards and Benchmarks by Subject Area
(120
total content standards)
TECHNICAL
DRAFTING
ENGLISH
LANGUAGE ARTS (12 Content Standards)
Meaning
and Communication:
•
All students will read and comprehend
general and technical material
•
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.
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.
•
All students will conduct investigations
by formulating a clear statement of a questions, gathering
and organizing information from a variety of sources, analyzing
and interpreting information, formulating and testing hypothesis,
reporting results both orally and in writing, and making use
of appropriate technology.
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.
MATHEMATCS
(13 Content Standards)
Patterns,
Relationships and Functions:
•
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:
•
Students develop spatial sense,
use shape as an analytic and descriptive tool,
identify
characteristics and define shapes, identify properties and
describe relationships among shapes.
•
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.
•
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.
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.
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.
•
All students will value physical
activity and its contribution to lifelong health and well-being.
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.
Applying
Appropriate Technologies:
•
All students will apply appropriate
technologies to critical thinking, creative expression, and
decision-making skills.
Employing
Systematic Approach:
•
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:
•
All students will apply ethical
and legal standards in planning, using, and evaluating technology.
Evaluating
and Forecasting:
•
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)
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.
Decision-making:
•
All students will demonstrate
responsible personal and family decision-making.
Responsibility:
5.
All students will practice family, social, and civic responsibility.
Revised: 1/27/2010 |
