Developmental and Content Standards
BACKGROUND
Indiana recently revised its rules for educator preparation and licensing. The revised administrative rules call for the Board to adopt teaching standards an individual educator must master to obtain licensure. As Indiana moves to a more content-focused approach to teacher licensure, the Department seeks to align Indianas teacher standards with the Common Core standards, which Indiana intends to adopt in late summer of this year.
DELIVERABLES
For this particular RFP, IDOE is interested in respondents that can
1) Fully develop high quality, best in the nation, teacher standards in one or more of the following subject and developmental areas. A respondent may bid on any combination of the standards or all of the standards.
a) Career and technical education; agriculture, business and services technology, marketing, family and consumer sciences, health occupations, trade and industrial education
b) English/language arts
c) Exceptional needs mild
d) Exceptional needs intense
e) Exceptional needs deaf and hard of hearing
f) Exceptional needs blind and low vision
g) Mathematics
h) Reading
i) Science; life science, physical science, physics, chemistry, earth/space science
j) Social studies: economics, geographical perspectives, government and citizenship, historical perspectives, psychology, sociology.
k) School setting developmental standards for:
i) Early childhood education
ii) Elementary education
iii) Middle school
iv) Secondary education
v) P-12
2) Develop content, if needed, based on most recent research, but primarily revise formatting to match teacher standards developed under section 1 above, for the following set of subjects:
a) Adaptive physical education
b) Business
c) Communication disorders
d) Computer education
e) Driver and traffic safety
f) English as a new language
g) Fine arts; visual arts, vocal and general music, instrumental and general music, theater arts, dance
h) Health education
i) High ability
j) Journalism
k) Library/media
l) Physical education
m) Technology education
n) World language
3) Align those standards with the national Common Core standards and Indiana Academic standards,
providing alignment summary documents for Common Core subjects;
4) Provide scientifically-based research for all standards developed; and
5) Present draft standards.
