1. Matching Your Site to Teacher
Needs
The Current and Revised Ohio Academic
Content Standards
Megan Wood

2. Current Standards
 Blue book adopted 2002
 Ohio Graduate Test- 10th
grade
 Suspension of Ohio Achievement
Test (Assessment)- 5th
and 8th
grades
 Revision required as part of House
Bill 1 (the buget) passed in July
2009

3. Process
 Writers at the Ohio Dept of
Education
 Expert Advisory Committee
 Working Group
 Public Comment (twice!)
 Revisions
 Ohio State Board of Education
Adoption June 2010

4. Model Curriculum
 Working Group
 Teacher Groups
 Public Comment
 Ohio State Board of Education
adoption March 2011

5. Testing
 Field test new assessments 2012-
2013
 New assessments in place Fall of
2014
 Year-end course assessments
 Nationally Standardized Test (high
school)

6. Changes
 New Vocabulary

9. Changes
 New Vocabulary
 Theme- for each grade level
 Topics
 Strands- History, Government,
Geography, Economics
 Content Statements- No verbs! This is
where we align.

10. Changes
 Shift in Scope and Sequence

13. Changes
 Shift in Scope and Sequence
 Inclusion of Pre-K
 4th
Grade is Ohio history in an American
context
 5th
Grade is people and regions of
Western Hemisphere (geography focus)
 6th
Grade is people and regions of the
Eastern Hemisphere (geography focus)
 Shift in dates for 7th
grade
 More time to cover in 8th
grade

14. Changes
 Strands collapsed
 No more:
 Social Studies Skills and Methods
 People in Societies
 Civic Skills and Responsibilities

15. Changes
 High School
 Standards in course syllabi
 Includes several options for electives
 Organized chronologically through
history content
 Online only
 No longer printing and distributing
books

16. Model Curriculum
 Content Elaborations (align here)
 Expectations for Learning (verbs,
also align here)
 Instructional Strategies
 Differentiated Classroom Ideas
 Instructional Resources
 Connections

18. What does it all mean?
 Transition period- using both sets of
standards
 New projects- new standards
 Re-aligning all material
 Incorporating 21st
Century Skills

19. 21st
Century Skills
 Communication
 Creativity
 Critical Thinking
 Collaboration
 Partnership for 21st Century Skills

20. Suggested Next Steps
 Slowly re-align all programs and
leave current alignment up
 Any new programs should use the
new standards
 Assess current programming to
meet the needs of changing
standards, 21st
Century Skills

21. Opportunities
 Provide professional development
 Act as a resource provider
 Re-package or re-market programs
to meet new standards
 Timeline allows us time to adapt

22. Primary Source Activities
 Engage students in skills and
primary source material/artifacts
 Can be adapted to fit almost any
content

23. Insert Adams Family Activities

24. Other Primary Source Activities
 You are the Curator!
 Fact or Fiction
 Political Cartoons
 Great State Debate

25. Questions?
 Contact me at anytime:
 mwood@ohiohistory.org
 614 297 2343