Teaching to the Standards

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Teaching to the Standards

• Integrating the Common Core State Standards into
• Lesson Plans
• Instruction
• - Assessments

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What is

• Common Core and State Standards?
• What students should learn and be able to do in
  Mathematics and English Language Arts in K-12.
  Implemented in all North Carolina classrooms
  beginning in 2012. Designed to help students be
  competitive nationally when they graduate high
  school and attend college or universities.
  Also, to help ensure that all students are
  college and career ready in literacy no later
  than the end of high school. Essentially, this
  is your guide.
• Unpacking Document
• A more specific break down of the Common Core.
  It describes what each standard means a student
  will know and will be ab to do and gives
  examples. Basically, this unravels the language
  of the Common Core
• Pacing Guide
• - Developed by a curriculum council in a county
  and helps keep teachers on track and organized
  in a timely manner

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ELA Standards- Key Ideas and Details-
Craft and Structure- Integration of Knowledge
and Ideas- Range of Reading and Level of Text
Complexity

• Math Standards
• Make sense of problems and persevere in solving
  them
• Reason abstractly and Quantitatively
• Construct viable arguments and critique the
  reasoning of others
• Model with mathematics
• Use appropriate tools strategically
• Attend to precision
• Look for and make use of structure
• Look for and express regularity in repeated
  reading

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Integrating the Common Core in Lesson Planning

• A few ideas to keep in mind
• Make a note in your lesson plan about which CCS
  you are covering
• Show students This is what I am teaching you
  today and this is what you will be learning
• Make notes in your plans of which students had
  difficulty with a particular standard (this is
  especially helpful when writing PEPs for
  students)
• Order in which you teach the standards
• It is helpful to plan with your grade level

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Integrating the Common Core in Instruction

• Make it interesting! Allow students to actively
  explore, research, and solve complex problems
• Present the lesson in a way that allows students
  to relate that information to real-world
  experiences.
• Collaborate with other teachers who will be
  working with your students, in order to plan your
  lessons. (Title I reading, math, media
  coordinator, etc.)
• Make it engaging! This will help them
  understand, make connections, and retain
  information better
• Integrate science and social studies with reading
  you

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Integrating the Common Core thru Assessing

• Mclass (and progress monitoring throughout)
• In class assessments (guided reading groups,
  math groups, one-on-one)
• Case 21 tests (In Grade 3 its like a practice
  EOG)
• Student conferencing
• Oral questioning and group discussions
• Class exit slips
• It is important to keep a record and keep
  track of these assessments for parent
  conferences and for you!!

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Some Advice

• This takes time and practice! It does not happen
  overnight
• Know your students!
• Dont be afraid to ask questions!
• Seek out help!
• Find a veteran teacher expert, mentor, or other
  elementary professional to go to for advice,
  help, questions, etc.
• Collaborate with your grade level team and be
  willing to share information, resources, and
  ideas

When youre green, youre growing. When youre
ripe, you rot
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Always remember why you went into this
professionAnd always do what is best for your
students!
How far you go in life depends on your being
tender with the young, compassionate with the
aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant
of the weak and strong. Because someday in your
life you will have been all of theseGeroge
Washington Carver
People will forget what you said, people will
forget what you did, but people will never forget
how you made them feel Maya Angelou
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Helpful Resources

• NCDPI website
• www.commoncoresheets.com
• maccss.ncdpi.wikispaces.net/Elementary (GREAT
  RESOURCE)
• www.mathplayground.com