In the Classroom

Classroom Assessments and Student Work
Over 900 classroom assessments with scoring rubrics that measure students’ progress toward the Learning Standards have been developed by Illinois educators. All assessments are linked directly to standards and to performance descriptors. These materials also contain sample student work to illustrate the four performance levels. To locate these instructional materials, click on Assessments and Descriptors in any subject area listed below. For an explanation of how to use these tools, see the Teachers’ Guide at http://www.isbe.net/ils/html/teacher_guide.htm.

The IIRC contains hot links to goals, standards, performance descriptors, and classroom assessments for all subject areas developed by the Illinois State Board of Education and Illinois teachers. You can directly access the goals and learning standards, descriptors and assessments by subject area, click on the links below. Alternately, you can also link to these materials at http://www.isbe.net/ils.

English Language Arts	Goals & Standards (scroll down to bottom of page to select from Goals 1 to 5) Assessments & Descriptors

Mathematics	Goals & Standards (scroll down to bottom of page to select from Goals 6 to 10) Assessments & Descriptors

Science	Goals & Standards (scroll down to bottom of page to select from Goals 11 to 13 and guidebook on science safety) Assessments & Descriptors

Social Science	Goals & Standards (scroll down to bottom of page to select from Goals 14 to 18) Assessments & Descriptors

Physical Development and Health	Goals & Standards (scroll down to bottom of page to select from Goals 19 to 24) Assessments & Descriptors

Fine Arts	Goals & Standards (scroll down to bottom of page to select from Goals 25 to 27) Assessments & Descriptors

Foreign Languages	Goals & Standards (scroll down to bottom of page to select from Goals 28 to 30) Assessments & Descriptors

Lesson Plans and Student Work
The Illinois Standards-aligned Classroom project at ISBE created and tested classroom activities aligned with the Learning Standards for all subjects. These activities are hot-linked to the standards and benchmarks through a web resource that requires some navigating. To access the resource, click on the link below, then search the standards by grade level, by learning area, or by keyword, then click "go."

The subject and area you have selected will open, showing you the standards and related benchmarks. Each benchmark has an associated hot-linked number. Clicking on any benchmark number will access an array of lesson plans. This site is definitely worth checking out. Disclaimer – some of the lesson plan links are several years old, and are no longer active, but most are. The lesson plans and student work site is http://209.70.46.75/vision/standards/standards_search.asp

More Classroom Activities, Learning Activities, and Sample Student Work
More information on instructional activities is available at http://206.166.105.86/knowledge/standards_resources.asp. This site has lots of specific resources that are of value in the classroom including, for each subject area, benchmarks, sample learning activities, and sample student work. The site also provides external web links connecting with instructional units, lesson plans, and more. The main link (above) gives you access to the general list of resources, but for more specific information click below for direct connection to each subject area (again, with benchmarks, sample learning activities, sample student work, and web links):

In addition, the main link also gives these same resources for the other learning areas: Fine Arts, Listening, Speaking and Processing Information Resources, Physical Development, and Foreign Language. Definitely worth checking out!

Another good source for lesson plans is: http://www.ed.gov/free/index.html.