NYS LEARNING STANDARDS
AND CORE CURRICULUM

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Alternate Learning Standards

In 1996, the New York State Board of Regents adopted learning standards for all content (subject) areas. Since then, the New York State Education Department (NYSED) has issued a series of core curricula, which provide an additional level of specificity to these learning standards. The core curricula are particularly important to local curriculum developers/educators since they contain the State’s expectations of what students must know and be able to do in relation to the content areas. For each learning standard, the core curricula present key ideas (broad, unifying, general statements of what students need to know) and performance indicators (statements of what students should do to provide evidence that they understand the key idea). These core curricula are the foundation upon which State assessments are aligned and developed.

New York State core curricula are not designed as local school/district curricula. Rather, these core curricula provide assistance to local schools/districts who maintain responsibility to design a curriculum that meets the needs of their students. The core curricula respect the tradition of local choice in New York State that empowers educators to select texts, identify products, and use a rich array of instructional strategies and activities to meet student needs.

To access a printable document that lists the 28 New York State Learning Standards, please click here (pdf).

ARTS
Music: A Resource Guide for Standards-Based Instruction
Introduction  pdf 240K
Standards & Prek to Grade 4 pdf 204K
Grade 5 to 8  pdf 208K
Commencement Level  pdf 174K
Appendices pdf 246K
 

Theatre: A Resource Guide for Standards-Based Instruction
Introduction  pdf 860K
Standards, Elementary, Intermediate, & Commencement pdf 340K

 

Career Development and Occupational Studies
Career Development and Occupational Studies (CDOS) Resource Guide with Core Curriculum
CDOS Introduction  pdf
CDOS-Elementary Career and Universal pdf
CDOS-Elementary Integrated pdf
CDOS-Inter Career and Universal  pdf
CDOS-Inter-Integrated   pdf
CDOS-Commencement-Career and Universal  pdf
CDOS-Commencement-Integrated  pdf
CDOS-3b part 1  pdf
CDOS-3b part 2  pdf
CDOS-Resources  pdf
 

English Language Arts
The English Language Arts Core Curriculum (May 2005)
PDF / Microsoft Word / HTML

Family and Consumer Sciences

Family and Consumer Sciences pdf
Home and Career Skills Curriculum (2006)
 

HEALTH EDUCATION
Health Education Learning Standards

Languages Other Than English
LOTE Learning Standards