Hawaii Content Performance Standards III
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HCPS III: Standards for all Students
The Hawaii Content and Performance Standards III describe educational targets in all nine content areas for ALL students in grades K-5. All students, therefore, are expected to be given the opportunity to meet all of the K-5 HCPS III standards. At the secondary level, however, the standards describe different things in different content areas. For the four CORE content areas (Language Arts, Mathematics, and Social Studies) the standards describe expectations for all students, since all students are expected to take certain required courses in these areas. For the extended core (Health, Physical Education, Fine Arts, World Languages, and Career and Technical Education) they describe a continuum that should be expected by students who choose courses in these areas as electives. It should be emphasized that ALL courses, required or elective, are standards-based and are part of the Hawaii Standards System.
Characteristics of Grades 3-5 Standards: Building upon foundational skills and knowledge
At the upper elementary levels (grades 3-5) curriculum focuses on refining, broadening, enhancing, and applying skills and knowledge in more challenging and varied contexts. Students use the foundational skills, processes, and knowledge they gained in their early elementary experience to extend and apply in all the nine content areas.
Organization of the Standards (General Description)
HCPS III standards are organized in a similar way for all nine content areas. Some of the content areas continue to organize their standards in grade level clusters. This is because, for content areas such as Physical Education, it is more developmentally appropriate to allow several years to achieve the benchmark, rather than to artificially break up physical skills into too discrete pieces that do not make sense instructionally. HCPS III are organized by and contain:
Strand =themes or “Big Ideas” that organize standards
Standard = a broad statement of what a student needs to know or be able to do
Topic = organizes the benchmarks into related ideas
Benchmark = a specific statement of what a student should know or be able to do (related to the topic) at a specific grade level or grade level cluster
Sample Performance Assessment = a generalized description of how a student might demonstrate significant aspects of the benchmark
The statement “No benchmark at this level” indicates that a grade level benchmark could not be created because it was either developmentally or instructionally inappropriate. The grade level/discipline at which a benchmark appears is where it may be assessed, but it is NOT the only grade level/discipline at which it should be taught. It is assumed, for example, that once content or a skill is taught it is reinforced and further developed in subsequent years. Benchmarks are not repeated.
*Art
*Health
*Career & Technical Education *Standards
HCPS III: Standards for all Students
The Hawaii Content and Performance Standards III describe educational targets in all nine content areas for ALL students in grades K-5. All students, therefore, are expected to be given the opportunity to meet all of the K-5 HCPS III standards. At the secondary level, however, the standards describe different things in different content areas. For the four CORE content areas (Language Arts, Mathematics, and Social Studies) the standards describe expectations for all students, since all students are expected to take certain required courses in these areas. For the extended core (Health, Physical Education, Fine Arts, World Languages, and Career and Technical Education) they describe a continuum that should be expected by students who choose courses in these areas as electives. It should be emphasized that ALL courses, required or elective, are standards-based and are part of the Hawaii Standards System.
Characteristics of Grades 3-5 Standards: Building upon foundational skills and knowledge
At the upper elementary levels (grades 3-5) curriculum focuses on refining, broadening, enhancing, and applying skills and knowledge in more challenging and varied contexts. Students use the foundational skills, processes, and knowledge they gained in their early elementary experience to extend and apply in all the nine content areas.
Organization of the Standards (General Description)
HCPS III standards are organized in a similar way for all nine content areas. Some of the content areas continue to organize their standards in grade level clusters. This is because, for content areas such as Physical Education, it is more developmentally appropriate to allow several years to achieve the benchmark, rather than to artificially break up physical skills into too discrete pieces that do not make sense instructionally. HCPS III are organized by and contain:
Strand =themes or “Big Ideas” that organize standards
Standard = a broad statement of what a student needs to know or be able to do
Topic = organizes the benchmarks into related ideas
Benchmark = a specific statement of what a student should know or be able to do (related to the topic) at a specific grade level or grade level cluster
Sample Performance Assessment = a generalized description of how a student might demonstrate significant aspects of the benchmark
The statement “No benchmark at this level” indicates that a grade level benchmark could not be created because it was either developmentally or instructionally inappropriate. The grade level/discipline at which a benchmark appears is where it may be assessed, but it is NOT the only grade level/discipline at which it should be taught. It is assumed, for example, that once content or a skill is taught it is reinforced and further developed in subsequent years. Benchmarks are not repeated.