La. Admin. Code tit. 28 § CXLI-105

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 11, November 20, 2024

Section CXLI-105 - Extended Standards Development

A. There is a progression of specificity in the Louisiana content standards. The content standards are broad statements of what students should know and be able to do, benchmarks are more specific, and GLEs state what all students should know and be able to do at the end of a given grade level. Each Extended Standard provides a description of the essence of a content standard and the GLEs appropriate for students who meet the eligibility criteria for LEAP Alternate Assessment, Level 1. Additionally, three levels of academic complexity related to each ES provide instructional access for students with varying academic abilities. Extended Standards have been developed for English language arts and mathematics in grades 3 through 10 based on GLEs. Extended Standards have also been developed for science grades 4, 8, and 11 and are based on benchmarks. Extended Standards for social studies may be developed at a future date. The ESs are organized in four grade spans:

1. third through fourth grades;

2. fifth through sixth grades;

3. seventh through eighth grades; and

4. ninth through eleventh grades.

B. Extended Standards do not represent the entire curriculum for a given grade or content area. Rather, they represent the core academic content considered appropriate for students taking LAA 1 at each grade span. Therefore, only those standards, benchmarks, and categories selected by the development committee are included in the handbook.

C. For mastery to be achieved at a given level, it may be necessary for those skills to be introduced at an earlier grade. Similarly, skills will need to be maintained after mastery has occurred.

D. The Extended Standards were developed with the following goals in mind:

1. to articulate academic learning from one grade to the next for students with significant cognitive disabilities;

2. to facilitate access to grade level content for students with significant cognitive disabilities;

3. to move from the concrete to the abstract;

4. to attend to prerequisite skills and understandings.

La. Admin. Code tit. 28, § CXLI-105

Promulgated by the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, LR 34:2340 (November 2008).

AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 17:24.4.