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Welcome to the Curriculum Website
Standards-Based Curriculum
The Council Rock School District Curriculum is framed around academic standards. Academic standards provide targets for learning, a focus for developing new ways to organize curriculum, instruction, and assessment, communicate shared expectations for learning , and provide a common language for talking about teaching and learning. The standards-based approach represents a shift from identifying and teaching what is to be covered to a verification of a student's learning of identified core concepts and skills. (PA Department of Education)
Two Kinds of Standards {logo}
Content Standards define the knowledge and skills essential to each discipline. They define what students should know, understand, and be able to do and provide specific targets for what must be learned in school. Performance Standards specify "how good is good enough". These standards specify the expected quality of work and gauge the degree to which the content standards have been attained. Performance standards are criterion- referenced. This means that student achievement is measured in relation to established competencies, not in relation to each other. |