With this revision, children may expect an intellectually powerful education no matter where they live; in which teaching, assessment, and the provision of supports for learning are to be closely linked; and in which schools and parents share the same high expectations of youngsters.
New York State Learning Standards are segmented as follows:
Arts
Career Development and Occupational Studies
English Language Arts
Health, Physical Education, and Family and Consumer Sciences
Mathematics, Science, and Technology
Social Studies
For a full text of the Learning Standards at the New York State Academy for Teaching and Learning visit http://www.nysatl.nysed.gov/standards.html.
New York State Arts Standards
Standard 1: Creating, Performing, and Participating in the Arts
Students will actively engage in the processes that constitute creation and
performance in the arts (dance, music, theatre, and visual arts) and participate
in various roles in the arts.
Standard 2: Knowing and Using Arts Materials and Resources
Students will be knowledgeable about and make use of the materials and resources
available for participation in the arts in various roles.
Standard 3: Responding to and Analyzing Works of Art
Students will respond critically to a variety of works in the arts, connecting
the individual work to other works and to other aspects of human endeavor
and thought.
Standard 4: Understanding the Cultural Contributions of the Arts
Students will develop an understanding of the personal and cultural forces
that shape artistic communication and how the arts in turn shape the diverse
cultures of past and present society.
New York State Career Development and Occupational Studies
Standards
Standard 1: Career Development
Students will be knowledgeable about the world of work, explore career options,
and relate personal skills, aptitudes, and abilities to future career decisions.
Standard 2: Integrated Learning
Students will demonstrate how academic knowledge and skills are applied in
the workplace and other settings.
Standard 3a: Universal Foundation Skills
Students will demonstrate mastery of the foundation skills and competencies
essential for success in the workplace.
Standard 3b: Career Majors
Students who choose a career major will acquire the career-specific technical
knowledge/skills necessary to progress toward gainful employment, career advancement,
and success in postsecondary programs.
New York State English Language Arts
Standard 1: Language for Information and Understanding
Students will listen, speak, read, and write for information and understanding.
As listeners and readers, students will collect data, facts, and ideas; discover
relationships, concepts, and generalizations; and use knowledge generated
from oral, written, and electronically produced texts. As speakers and writers,
they will use oral and written language that follows the accepted conventions
of the English language to acquire, interpret, apply, and transmit information.
Standard 2: Language for Literary Response and Expression
Students will read and listen to oral, written, and electronically produced
texts and performances from American and world literature; relate texts and
performances to their own lives; and develop an understanding of the diverse
social, historical, and cultural dimensions the texts and performances represent.
As speakers and writers, students will use oral and written language that
follows the accepted conventions of the English language for self-expression
and artistic creation.
Standard 3: Language for Critical Analysis and Evaluation
Students will listen, speak, read, and write for critical analysis and evaluation.
As listeners and readers, students will analyze experiences, ideas, information,
and issues presented by others using a variety of established criteria. As
speakers and writers, they will use oral and written language that follows
the accepted conventions of the English language to present, from a variety
of perspectives, their opinions and judgments on experiences, ideas, information
and issues.
Standard 4: Language for Social Interaction
Students will listen, speak, read, and write for social interaction. Students
will use oral and written language that follows the accepted conventions of
the English language for effective social communication with a wide variety
of people. As readers and listeners, they will use the social communications
of others to enrich their understanding of people and their views.
New York State Health, Physical Education, and Family
and Consumer Sciences Standards
Standard 1: Personal Health and Fitness
Students will have the necessary knowledge and skills to establish and maintain
physical fitness, participate in physical activity, and maintain personal
health.
Standard 2: A Safe and Healthy Environment
Students will acquire the knowledge and ability necessary to create and maintain
a safe and healthy environment.
Standard 3: Resource Management
Students will understand and be able to manage their personal and community
resources.
New York State Mathematics, Science, and Technology
Standards
Standard 1: Analysis, Inquiry, and Design
Students will use mathematical analysis, scientific inquiry, and engineering
design, as appropriate, to pose questions, seek answers, and develop solutions.
Standard 2: Information Systems
Students will access, generate, process, and transfer information using appropriate
technologies.
Standard 3: Mathematics
Students will understand mathematics and become mathematically confident by
communicating and reasoning mathematically, by applying mathematics in real-world
settings, and by solving problems through the integrated study of number systems,
geometry, algebra, data analysis, probability, and trigonometry.
Standard 4: Science
Students will understand and apply scientific concepts, principles, and theories
pertaining to the physical setting and living environment and recognize the
historical development of ideas in science.
Standard 5: Technology
Students will apply technological knowledge and skills to design, construct,
use, and evaluate products and systems to satisfy human and environmental
needs.
Standard 6: Interconnectedness: Common Themes
Students will understand the relationships and common themes that connect
mathematics, science, and technology and apply the themes to these and other
areas of learning.
Standard 7: Interdisciplinary Problem Solving
Students will apply the knowledge and thinking skills of mathematics, science,
and technology to address real-life problems and make informed decisions.
Standard 1: History of the United States and New York
Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding
of major ideas, eras, themes, developments, and turning points in the history
of the United States and New York.
Standard 2: World History
Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding
of major ideas, eras, themes, developments, and turning points in world history
and examine the broad sweep of history from a variety of perspectives.
Standard 3: Geography
Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding
of the geography of the interdependent world in which we live—local,
national, and global—including the distribution of people, places, and
environments over the Earth’s surface.
Standard 4: Economics
Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding
of how the United States and other societies develop economic systems and
associated institutions to allocate scarce resources, how major decision-making
units function in the United States and other national economies, and how
an economy solves the scarcity problem through market and nonmarket mechanisms.
Standard 5: Civics, Citizenship, and Government
Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding
of the necessity for establishing governments; the governmental system of
the United States and other nations; the United States Constitution; the basic
civic values of American constitutional democracy; and the roles, rights,
and responsibilities of citizenship, including avenues of participation.