Standards+Aligned+System+(SAS)



Standards Aligned System (SAS)

Need any guidance on being a teacher? The Pennsylvania Department of Education has a website, [|Standards Aligned System] (SAS for short), that can help teachers with anything from lesson plan ideas to the resources need for that lesson. All of this information is lined up neatly with the Pennsylvania standards and expectations, and if there are any questions on the standards themselves, they are laid out on the website as well. This is a must have link for any educator, whether they are teaching in PA or not!

Each lesson plan on SAS has to go through a critical review to make sure the quality of the lesson is there. This includes an assessment in the content, the feasibility, and the list goes on. For example, take a look at this middle school geography lesson that can be found through a random online search: []

Through the guidance of the SAS standards in lessons, a review was completed for this lesson ([|Lesson Plan Review]). In all, the lesson did pretty well but the format of the lesson would have to be changed to be similar to the [|Lesson Plan Template]. The following link is an example of a completed lesson that I and a co-educator have completed for the SAS website. It is a 3rd grade Science lesson on [|Solid, Liqud, and Gas].