Content standards are defined knowledge, skills,and processes that are taught in an specific area of content, which includes reading & writing, mathematics, science, history, and so on.
Benchmarks are the instructional goals tat up holds content standards. They also help identify the understanding and skills used in content standards with each grade level and over time.
These are the foundation of teaching knowledge to our students and they should provide fundemental konwledge for the future of children.
There are benchmarks for both the teacher's and student's. The benchmarks for teacher's start by deciding the curriculum for the children and recognize the students strenghth's and weaknesses. For the students the benchmark start at the knowledge the y know and it build as the students recieve more knowledge.
