STANDARD BASED APPROACH
Standards –based education is a process for
planning ,delivering ,monitoring and improving academic programs in
which clearly defined academic content standards provide the basis of
content in instruction and assessment.
According to the English Guidelines of teaching foreign languages in
Morocco, this approach is adopted for Secondary School (Common Core,
First Year, and Second Year Baccalaureate).
It focuses on the realization of one particulare standard within the competency
rather than the competency as a whole.
In SBA the standards help to ensure that students are learning what is
important rather than allowing textbooks to dictate classroom
practices . Student’s learning is the focus of SBA , and it aims for a high
and deep level of undestanding that goes beyond traditional textbook-
based or lesson-based instruction.
There are three types of standards:
Content standards: it is a statement about what
learners should know and be able to With the English
language.
Performance standards: shows how the learners
have achieved the standards targeted.
Proficiency standards: tell us how learners should
perform.
Standard-based approach SBA is concerned
with devoloping thefollowing five areas Cs
Communication: learners will communicate in both oral and written forms, and understand and
interpret both oral and written messages to various audiences for a variety of purposes. The
three modes of communication are interpersonal (functions: advice, suggestion, opinion),
interpretive (receptive skills: reading and listening), and presentational (productive skills:
writing and speaking) communication.
Culture: learners will gain a deeper understanding of their culture and the target culture in
terms of their perspectives (ideas, attitudes, etc.), practices, and products like books, laws,and
music. One of the main goals is tointeract with others, to understand the way they think and to
avoid misunderstanding and embarrassment.
Connections: learners will make connections with other subject areas such as history, and
Arabic... (what we’ve learned in a specific subject, we relate it to other subjects for us to
understand well).
Comparison: learners will gain awareness of cross-cultural similarities and differences in culture
that exist between the target culture and language and their own through comparing.
Communities: learners will extend their learning experiences or knowledge from the EFL
classroom to the outside world through activities such as how to avoid air pollution. We apply
what we’ve learned in the classroom, in other situations and contexts outside the class. And
this process is known as ‘Learner Training’ which is the focus of the Standard-based approach.
A lesson plan of teaching through
standards:
• A lesson plan should include the following features:
Goals and rationale: briefly describe the general rational for
teaching your lesson.
Focus contant : identify the major skills , language items and
information that will be targetted in the lesson.
The standard adressed: the goals of the lesson and how it will be
achieved.
Teaching procedure: identify the steps of the lesson.
Assessment: what assessment mode will be sued to assess student’s
performance .