Extended Grade Band Standards

All students, including students with significant cognitive disabilities, deserve the fullest educational experience. This right includes, to the maximum extent possible, the opportunity to be involved in and meet the same challenging expectations that have been established for all students.

The State of Wisconsin has established Extended Grade Band Standards in Reading, Mathematics, and Science to guide instruction and curriculum planning for students with significant cognitive disabilities. The extended standards indicate what students with significant cognitive disabilities are expected to know and be able to do academically. The extended standards will be used as the basis for the new Wisconsin Alternate Assessment for Students with Disabilities (WAA-SwD).

The extended standards were developed to satisfy the requirement of the U.S. Department of Education that Wisconsin have alternate achievement standards for its students with disabilities that are clearly linked to grade-level academic content standards.

Training and Resources

• Extended Grade Band Standards, Designing instruction for students with significant disabilities, A brochure for Parents and Educators
• Presentation: This webcast has been designed to provide training on the Wisconsin Extended Academic Content Standards and Performance Descriptors. The United States Department of Education (USDOE) requires students with significant cognitive disabilities to be assessed on alternate academic standards. Teachers will need to provide instruction on these alternate standards prior to the assessment of the WAA-SwD. This webcast will introduce teachers to the extended academic content standards and show how to incorporate them into daily classroom instruction. This webcast is intended for educators that will be administrating and/or providing training for the WAA-SwD. Webcast - PowerPoint
• Student Baseline and Post-Instruction Checklists. These are tools teachers can use to determine which skills from the new Extended Grade Band Standards their students with significant cognitive disabilities can perform, and at which level of proficiency. These checklists are not a required form but were developed to help teachers plan their individual student's instruction.
  

  Reading Grade Band 3-4 Reading Grade Band 5-6 Reading Grade Band 7-8 Reading Grade Level 10

  Mathematics Grade Band 3-4 Mathematics Grade Band 5-6 Mathematics Grade Band 7-8 Mathematics Grade Level 10

  Science Grade Level 4 Science Grade Level 8 Science Grade Level 10

• Activities
  
  • Activity 1: Blank Worksheet - Completed Example
• Tools
• Questions and Answers

For questions about this information, contact Sandra Berndt 608-266-1785 or Eva Kubinski 608-266-2899.

Last updated on 9/23/2008 2:07:13 PM