Utah Admin. Code 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.
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