Use the Search Standards link to:

• Search for performance indicators by keyword
• Compare performance indicators in various Standard areas

Use the specific Learning Standard link to view performance indicators in particular Levels by first selecting a specific Standard area (i.e. MST), then a standard number (4, Science), and then a specific Standard Level (Intermediate). This will display of list of all (Physical Setting and Living Environment) performance indicators for that level.

As we learn more about how you would like to use this application, we will revise, rebuild and add new functionality. So, keep checking back! We're sure you will see the standards in a new light!

NYS Resource Guides are documents focusing on curriculum essentials, student learning experiences, and sample assessment models. These guides were developed to go hand in hand with the Learning Standards. Resource Guides go beyond the Learning Standards by helping teachers find additional support for their planning.

Performance Indicators
What Are They?

Performance Indicators are located in the Learning Standards. These indicators note the required expectations for students at the elementary, intermediate, and commencement levels. For example, one performance indicator suggests that elementary students must be able to select information appropriate to their investigations and relate ideas from one text to another. In other words, the indicators specifically point out what students should know and be able to do.

Performance Indicators incorporate five dimensions of growth:

• range (breadth and depth of texts, topics, etc.)
• flexibility (performance in changing and varied conditions)
• connections (ability to see commonalities between ideas, texts, contexts)
• conventions (rules, protocols, traditional practices)
• independence (ability to perform without models or direction)

  'New York State Education Department, "Learning Standards for English Language Arts" rev. ed. (State Education Department, 1996) .
  

Click the name of the desired Resource Guide to view Performance Indicators and correlating activities in the Resource Guide.

Use the pdf version link to go to the NYS Ed web site for the full Resource Guide which includes the "Learning Experience" section. (The pdf version may take between 5 and 20 minutes to download depending on your connection and requires Acrobat Reader to open. You will need to find more directions to the specific document on the State Ed. site after using the pdf version links)