SWITCHING TO COMMON CORE

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SWITCHING TO COMMON CORE
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What is Common Core?

• Common Core is a new set of standards our country
  is adapting
• PARCC is designing- Partnership for Assessment
  of Readiness for College and Careers
• Student will be ready out of high school for
  career or college

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CCSS

• Standards are designed specifically for k-12.
• Build off one another
• Ideally, high
• expectations drive the entire system from
  states to districts to classrooms towards
  excellence and increase the outcomes and
  opportunities for all students.

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CCSS

• Aligned with college and work expectations
• Focused and coherent
• Include rigorous content and application of
  knowledge through high-order skills
• Build upon strengths and lessons of current state
  standards
• Internationally benchmarked so that all students
  are prepared to succeed in our global economy and
  society
• Based on evidence and research

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Why is this important??

• States currently have their own set of
  standardsmeaning every state expects different
  levels out of our students
• Our students need to be able to compete on fair
  grounds with ours not only in our country, but
  around the world.

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The Switch
How PARCC is aligned to the CCSS and grounded in
the shifts at the heart of the CCSS. PARCC
assessments will be tightly aligned to the Common
Core State Standards and grounded in the key
shifts at the heart of the Common Core State
Standards. There are three shifts in mathematics
and three in English language arts
(ELA)/literacy, described below. These are
shifts the Standards require of teachers and
students and they will be reflected in the
PARCC assessments as well. This will help ensure
that the assessments mirror the expectations of
the classroom.
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The Switch

• Common Core Shifts for ELA/Literacy
• Complexity The standards require regular
  practice with complex text and its academic
  language
• Evidence The standards emphasize reading and
  writing grounded in evidence from text, both
  literary and informational
• Knowledge The standards require building
  knowledge through content rich non-fiction
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• Common Core Shifts for Mathematics
• Focus The standards focus in on the key content,
  skills and practices at each grade level
• Coherence Content in the standards builds across
  the grades, and major topics are linked within
  grades
• Rigor In major topics, the standards highlight
  conceptual understanding, procedural skill and
  fluency, and application

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ELA

• Four strands
• Reading (including Reading Foundational Skills)
• Writing
• Speaking and Listening
• Language

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Examples

• Kindergarten
• With prompting and support from teacher, Students
  describe the relationship between key events in
  an overall story to corresponding scenes
  illustrated.
• Define the role of an author and illustrator.

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ELA- Reading Foundational Skills

• Four categories (standards 1-4)
• Print concepts (K-1)
• Phonological awareness (K-1)
• Phonics and word recognition (K-5)
• Fluency (K-5)

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Writing

• Writing types/purposes (standards 1-3)
• Writing arguments
• Writing informative/explanatory texts
• Writing narratives
• Strong and growing across-the-curriculum emphasis
  on students writing arguments and
  informative/explanatory texts

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Writing

• Production and distribution of writing (standards
  4-6)
• Developing and strengthening writing
• Using technology to produce and enhance writing
• Research (standards 7-9)
• Engaging in research and writing about sources
• Range of writing (standard 10)
• Writing routinely over various time frames

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Speaking and Listening

• Comprehension and collaboration (standards 1-3)
• Day-to-day, purposeful academic talk in
  one-on-one,
• small-group, and large-group settings
• Presentation of knowledge and ideas (standards
  4-6)
• Formal sharing of information and concepts,
• including through the use of technology

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Language

• Conventions of standard English
• Knowledge of language (standards 1-3)
• Using standard English in formal writing and
  speaking
• Using language effectively and recognizing
  language varieties
• Vocabulary (standards 4-6)
• Determining word meanings and word nuances
• Acquiring general academic and domain-specific
  words and phrases

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• Reading
• Balance of literature and informational texts
• Text complexity
• Writing
• Emphasis on argument and informative/explanatory
  writing
• Writing about sources
• Speaking and Listening
• Inclusion of formal and informal talk
• Language
• Stress on general academic and domain-specific
  vocabulary

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Literature vs. Informational
Grade Literature Informational
K-5 50 50
6-8 45 55
9-12 30 70
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Lexile Levels
Text Complexity in Grade Old Lexile Range Lexile Ranges Aligned to Common Core
K-1 n/a n/a
2-3 450-725 450-790
4-5 645-845 770-980
6-8 860-1010 955-1155
9-10 960-1115 1080-1305
11-CCR 1070-1220 1215-1355
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Math Practices

• Standards for Mathematical Practice
• Carry across all grade levels
• Describe habits of mind of a mathematically
  expert student
• Standards for Mathematical Content
• K-8 standards presented by grade level
• Organized into domains that progress over several
  grades
• Grade introductions give 24 focal points at each
  grade level
• High school standards presented by conceptual
  theme (Number Quantity, Algebra, Functions,
  Modeling, Geometry, Statistics Probability)

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Example
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PARCC Assessment

• http//www.parcconline.org/samples/english-languag
  e-artsliteracy/grade-3-tecr-end-year-assessment
• K-2 test unknown

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What this really means

• Shift in the way your student learns at school
• Student-based standards
• Integration of technology