Learning Standards

Learning and content standards are what guide and inform instruction at all grades at Oakwood Schools.

Ohio's Learning Standards identify what students need to know and should be able to do. The Ohio Department of Education and Workforce regularly reviews and updates the standards, which are then used by school districts to develop curriculum and educational opportunities.

Content Standards are what Oakwood educators have developed at the local level, in order to meet and exceed Ohio's Learning Standards.

Ohio measures the performance of its schools based on how well students are progressing in gaining the knowledge and skills within the learning standards. Ohio's learning standards and Oakwood's content standards may be reviewed on this page.

Ohio's Learning Standards

The standards define what students should understand and be able to do by the end of each grade. They correspond to the College and Career Readiness (CCR) anchor standards in reading, writing, speaking, listening, and language as well as in mathematics, and serve as the backbone. Grade-specific K–12 standards in reading, writing, speaking, listening, and language translate the broad (and, for the earliest grades, seemingly distant) aims of the CCR standards into age- and attainment-appropriate terms. The standards set requirements not only for English language arts (ELA) but also for literacy in history/social studies, science, and technical subjects.

The College and Career Readiness and grade-specific standards are necessary complements—the former providing broad standards, the latter providing additional specificity - that together define the skills and understandings that all students must demonstrate.

As students advance through the grades and master the standards in reading, writing, speaking, listening, and language, they will be able to exhibit with increasing fullness and regularity the following capacities of the literate individual.

Students will be able to demonstrate independence, and build strong content knowledge. They will respond to the varying demands of audience, task, purpose, and discipline. They will comprehend as well as critique, and learn to value evidence. Our students will use technology and digital media strategically and capably. Finally, they will come to understand other perspectives and cultures.

Oakwood's Content Standards

English Language Arts

Health

Today’s state-of-the-art health education curricula reflect the growing body of research that emphasizes teaching functional health information (essential knowledge); shaping personal values and beliefs that support healthy behaviors; shaping group norms that value a healthy lifestyle; and developing the essential health skills necessary to adopt, practice, and maintain health-enhancing behaviors. Reviews of effective programs and curricula and input from experts in the field of health education have identified characteristics of effective health education curricula.

These characteristics are summarized below. An effective health education curriculum:

●      Focuses on clear health goals and related behavioral outcomes.
●      Is research-based and theory-driven.
●      Addresses individual values, attitudes, and beliefs.
●      Addresses individual and group norms that support health-enhancing behaviors.
●      Focuses on reinforcing protective factors and increasing perceptions of personal risk and harmfulness of engaging in specific unhealthy practices and behaviors.
●      Addresses social pressures and influences.
●      Builds personal competence, social competence and self efficacy by addressing skills.
●      Provides functional health knowledge that is basic, accurate, and directly contributes to health-promoting decisions and behaviors.
●      Uses strategies designed to personalize information and engage students.
●      Provides age-appropriate and developmentally-appropriate information, learning strategies, teaching methods, and materials.
●      Incorporates learning strategies, teaching methods, and materials that are culturally inclusive.
●      Provides adequate time for instruction and learning.
●      Provides opportunities to reinforce skills and positive health behaviors.
●      Provides opportunities to make positive connections with influential others.
●      Includes teacher information and plans for professional development and training that enhance the effectiveness of instruction and student learning.