Standards are what hold like-minded industries (education, military, corporate, or other) to the same level of accountability. Once a standard is selected, it must then be aligned to the lesson or instruction. All successful instructional settings will align instruction and assessment to the standards. For this assignment, you will discuss the purpose of standards and a learning objectives/outcomes alignment with assessments and lesson plans. You will also summarize the importance of alignment between standards, objectives, assessments within instructional plans. It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong.(Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, as cited in Lopez, 2013) Prior to beginning work on this assignment, read Chapter 7: Crafting Lessons by Design from (Newman, 2019) and Chapter 7: Standards Alignment from (Lopez, 2013). From your current or desired educational career, reflect on the following as you consider standards alignment: Compose your paper using APA Style and third-person language. For assistance, you may review the resource Your paper should include the following: Introduction Body of the Paper Conclusion Be sure to support your position with one scholarly and/or credible source, in addition to the (Lopez, 2013), and the (Newman, 2019) textbooks (for a total of at least three cited references). The Standards Alignment paper For further assistance with the formatting and the title page, refer to .
