R277-700-4. Elementary Education Requirements

(1) The Core Standards and a General Core for elementary school students in grades K-6 are described in this section. (2) The following are the Elementary School Education Core Subject Requirements: (a) English Language Arts; (b) Mathematics; (c) Science; (d) Social Studies; (e) Arts: (i) Visual Arts; (ii) Music; (iii) Dance; or (iv) Theatre; (f) Health Education; (g) Physical Education; (h) Educational Technology, including keyboarding; (i) Library Media skills, integrated into the core subject areas and (j) Civics and character education, integrated into the core subject areas. (3) An LEA board shall provide access to the General Core to all students within the LEA. (4) An LEA board is responsible for student mastery of the Core Standards. (5) An LEA shall implement formative assessment practices on a regular basis to ensure continual student progress. (6) An LEA shall assess students for proficiency in keyboarding by grade 5 and report school level results to the Superintendent. (7) An LEA shall use Board-approved summative adaptive assessments to assess student mastery of the following: (a) language arts; (b) mathematics; (c) science; and (d) effectiveness of written expression in grade 5. (8) An LEA shall provide intervention to elementary students who do not achieve mastery of the subjects described in this section.