1. Standards
Choose a grade level and subject that you seek to teach.
Using the standards links provided in the “Important Resources” folder (under Course material), access the appropriate standards and read them over, along with the grade levels before and after the one you chose.
So for example, let’s say you chose 4th grade ELA. Read through those standards, and then 3rd and 5th grade as well.
Then, please share the following:
Grade level/subject you chose
A quick overview of some of the major things kids need to be able to do
A quick overview of the progression you are seeing across the three grade levels — how do they build their understandings based on the standards?
Did anything surprise you? Anything confusing?
Reply to others with any insights, ideas, suggestions, or connections you can
make?
2. Writing Learning Objectives
Choose a standard for any subject area. List the specific standard you have chosen (copy and paste it from the standards site). Then, create 3 learning objectives that would help students to meet that standard.
Here is my example from Kindergarten Literacy.
Standard:
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.K.3 With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.
Objectives: Students will be able to:
describe the changes the caterpillar experiences in The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
identify the caterpillar as the main character in the story.
compare a caterpillar to a butterfly.
https://www.p12.nysed.gov/earlylearning/standards/documents/PrekindergartenFoundationfortheCommonCore.pdf