The skills and opportunities provided by yourtake.org meet a number of typical standards in a variety of areas. Here, we’ve included actual and excerpted standards to demonstrate the types of content standards or lesson objectives yourtake.org addresses.
Social Studies
We have excerpted below some typical social studies standards from one state, New Jersey http://education.state.nj.us/cccs/?_standard_matrix;c=6 to show the range of social studies standards which can be addressed through using yourtake.org.
Sample Core Curriculum Content Standards Social Studies:
- All students will utilize historical thinking, problem solving, and research skills to maximize their understanding of civics, history, geography, and economics.
- Use critical thinking skills to interpret events, recognize bias, point of view, and context.
- Examine current issues, events, or themes and relate them to past events.
- Compare and contrast competing interpretations of current and historical events.
- Interpret events considering continuity and change, the role of chance, oversight and error, and changing interpretations by historians.
- Formulate questions and hypotheses from multiple perspectives, using multiple sources.
- Evaluate current issues, events, or themes and trace their evolution through historical periods.
- Apply problem-solving skills to national, state, or local issues and propose reasoned solutions.
Civics
- Describe major conflicts that have arisen from diversity (e.g., land and suffrage for Native Americans, civil rights, women’s rights) and discuss how the conflicts have been addressed.
- Discuss basic contemporary issues involving the personal, political, and economic rights of American citizens (e.g., dress codes, sexual harassment, fair trial, free press, minimum wage).
- Develop critical thinking skills which enable them to function as lifelong learners and examine and evaluate issues of importance to all Americans.
- Appreciate the complexities of social and historical issues.
- Examine current issues, events or themes and relate them to past events.
- Identify current issues that may have global impact (e.g. Pollution, diseases) and discuss ways to address them.
- Propose and justify new local state or federal government policies on a variety of contemporary issues (definition of marriage, voting systems and procedures, censorship, religion in public places)
Comprehensive Health and Physical Education
Below we have excerpted standards from the National Health Standards that promote the skills needed to make healthy choices. These are the types of standards that can be addressed using yourtake.org.
National Health Education Standards: For Students
Sample Core Curriculum Content Standards
Integrated Skills
- All students will use health-enhancing personal, interpersonal, and life skills to support a healthy, active lifestyle.
Decision-Making
- Demonstrate and assess the use of decision-making skills in health and safety situations.
- Compare and contrast the influence of peers, family, the media, and past experiences on the use of decision-making skills and predict how these influences may change or conflict as one ages.
- Predict social situations and conditions that may require adolescents and young adults to use decision-making skills.
- Discuss how ethical decision making requires careful thought and action.
- Critique significant health decisions and discuss how the outcome(s) might have changed if the appropriate communication and decision-making skills had been employed.
Leadership, Advocacy and Public Service
- Develop and articulate a group’s goals, shared values, and vision.
- Develop and defend a position or opinion on a health issue or problem and educate students and parents about the health issue or cause.
Drug and Violence Prevention
(Based on No Child Left Behind Act 2001) Title IV - 21st Century Schools Part A - Safe and Drug-free Schools and Communities, Sections 4115 (E) viii and xiii
Sample Core Curriculum Content Standards
- Examine issues from different points of view and use a process to develop a plan to resolve conflicts without violence.
- Use a process to analyze complex issues and points of view to understand victimization associated with bullying, prejudice and intolerance.
- Develop a sense of individual responsibility and respect for the rights of others by examining issues from different points of view.
Character Education
(Based on the eleven principles of effective character education set by the Character Education Partnership with the Center for the Advancement of Ethics and Character.)
Sample Core Curriculum Content Standards:
- Examine issues from different points of view to promote core ethical values as the basis of good character.
- Analyze complex issues and points of view to include thinking, feeling and behavior as components of character.
- Apply a process as a means to a comprehensive, intentional, proactive and effective approach to character development.
- Use real life scenarios to make connections that make curriculum meaningful and challenging, helps develop their character and helps them to succeed.
Technology
Below we have excerpted standards from the National Educational Technology Standards from the NETS Project (adapted by most states) which defines standards for students, integrating curriculum technology, technology support, and standards for student assessment and evaluation of technology use. These are the types of standards that can be addressed using yourtake.org.
http://cnets.iste.org/docs/NETS_S.doc
Technology Standards for Students
Basic operations and concepts
- Students demonstrate a sound understanding of the nature and operation of technology systems.
- Students are proficient in the use of technology.
Technology communications tools
- Students use telecommunications to collaborate, publish, and interact with peers, experts, and other audiences.
Technology problem-solving and decision-making tools
- Students use technology resources for solving problems and making informed decisions.
- Students employ technology in the development of strategies for solving problems in the real world.
Below we have excerpted standards form the National Education Technology Standards for teachers. These are the types of standards that can be addressed using YourTake.org.
http://cnets.iste.org/docs/NETS_T.doc
Teaching, Learning, and the Curriculum
Teachers implement curriculum plans that include methods and strategies for applying technology to maximize student learning. Teachers:
- Facilitate technology-enhanced experiences that address content standards and student technology standards.
- Use technology to support learner-centered strategies that address the diverse needs of students.
- Apply technology to develop students' higher order skills and creativity.
- Manage student learning activities in a technology-enhanced environment.
Assessment and Evaluation
Teachers apply technology to facilitate a variety of effective assessment and evaluation strategies. Teachers:
- Apply technology in assessing student learning of subject matter using a variety of assessment techniques.
- Use technology resources to collect and analyze data, interpret results, and communicate findings to improve instructional practice and maximize student learning.
- Apply multiple methods of evaluation to determine students’ appropriate use of technology resources for learning, communication, and productivity.