Benchmark & Content Standard

Content Standards
Content standards refer to what gets taught in specific content areas (e.g., reading, language arts, mathematics, science, history) Content and performance are two types of standards. Performance is mastering what has been taught and the content which is an outline of what needs to be learned. These goals should be written based on grade level and what should be learned by the end of the year. Some assessments would be used to determine the knowledge and skills students have grasped and be able to guide teachers in a way to understand if their teaching skills have made an impact.
BENCHMARKS
Benchmarks are test usually given throughout the school year or the end of a semester/unit. They are used to determine progression in students based towards goals and standards. The teacher will acknowledge students about benchmarks and help them understand what is to be met of them giving them a greater sense of responsibility to their own learning.
Benchmark and standard remain the same throughout the k-12 grades but as the student goes to another grade, the performance standards change.
LEARNING
Knowing what makes a student struggle to learn and how they remember to learn can make lessons and planning easier for the instructor in her classroom. Learning a students interest, strengths, weaknesses, behavior, what language is spoken at home, interest, talents, religious factors, how they learn, and the knowledge they already have are good information to have before hand. All students don't learn the same or have the same environment around them. Getting to know your students can help the instructor understand each and every student and create ways to help them learn. All the information goes into a student goes to "short term memory" which leads to "long term memory". This isn't easy and cannot be done overnight. This is important for the teacher to incorporate that all student don't learn alike. One student might need visual aids to remember and another might remember by using "alike" words. Teachers can use creative ways to connect to their lessons i.e topics of interest outside the classrooms to help the students remember.