Common Core Standards

Teacher InserviceFall 2011

ObjectivesTeachers will be able to discuss the basics of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS).

Teachers will begin to implement the CCSS in their content areas in 2011-2012.

What is our collective knowledge around the

common core?

•A joint effort by the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers

Common Core State Standards InitiativeCommon Core State Standards Initiative

• A state-led initiative States were in the driver’s seat The federal government did not

develop the standards or require their adoption.

• College- and career-readiness standards for English/language arts and mathematics developed summer of 2009

• K-12 standards for each grade were developed

• Continual input throughout the process from states, educators, and business and higher education leaders with 10,000 responses during the public comment period

Standards Development ProcessStandards Development Process

Common Core State Standards AdoptionCommon Core State Standards Adoption

44 states and D.C. have fully adopted the Common Core State Standards.

•Currently, every state has its own set of academic standards, meaning public education students in each state are learning to different levels

•All students must be prepared to compete with not only their American peers in the next state, but with students from around the world

What are advantages of common standards? What are advantages of common standards?

Features of the StandardsFeatures of the Standards

• 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

• Based on evidence and research• Internationally benchmarked

CCSS Mission Statement

Features of the StandardsFeatures of the Standards• The College and Career Readiness (CCR) anchor standards were written first and describe expectations for the end of high school.

• The CCSS were then back-mapped down to kindergarten to ensure that students would be on track early to

meet rigorous end of high school

literary goals.

Timeline of CCSS2010-2011 CCSS for ELA and Math adopted by Oregon Fall

2010Oregon joins SMARTER Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC)NCSD has teacher reps from all schools to examine CCSS and create alignment documentsNCSD landmark document is aligned to CCSS

2011-2012 ELA and Math crosswalks available on ODE websiteProfessional development for administrators and teachers for CCSS

2012-2013 Continue implementation of CCSS

2013-2014 SBAC Field Test Questions Appear in OAKSFull implementation of CCSS

2014-2015 SBAC Cut Scores EstablishedSpring 2015 SBAC assessment in use

Stepping Up to the Stepping Up to the Challenge Challenge

2013 –2014

2014 -2015

YOU ARE HERE

Kindergarten CCSS

Next-GenerationAssessments

SmarterBalancedAssessmentConsortium

First Group of 3rd Graders

ExploreTake 2 minutes - look through the CCSS in math for kindergarten, 4th, and 8th

What do you notice?

Let’s PlaySmart phone? Download Common Core App

Laptop? http://www.corestandards.org

Old School Paper? Flip through

The standards define:The standards define:

• What is most essential

• Grade-level expectations

• What students are expected to know and be able to do

• Cross-disciplinary literacy skills

The standards do NOT define:The standards do NOT define:

• How teachers should teach• What materials must be used• All that can or should be taught• The nature of advanced work• Intervention methods or materials• The full range of supports for English learners

and students with special needs

CCSS for Math

Standards for Mathematical Practice

1. Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.

2. Reason abstractly and quantitatively.

3. Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.

4. Model with mathematics.

5. Use appropriate tools strategically.

6. Attend to precision.

7. Look for and make use of structure.

8. Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.

What’s Different in Math?

In the past… Now…

K-5 more focus on patterns and geometry

New standards at each level- now more building

Advanced math- optional

K-5 focus on number and operations

6-8 are designed more like high school standards with a primary emphasis on Algebra, Geometry and Statistics

9-12 organized by conceptual categories rather than grade level.

K-12 Common Mathematical Practices

Standards for English Language Arts

READINGLiteraryInformational

WRITINGArgument, Informative, NarrativePublishingResearch and evidence

SPEAKING/LISTENINGDigital Media

LANGUAGE Conventions, Effective Use, Vocabulary

Also in ELA standards…

Section for Literacy in Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects

Appendix A = Research supporting key elements of the standards with bibliography and glossary

Appendix B = Text exemplars for each level (reading)

Appendix C = Samples of student writing

What’s Different in READING?

In the past… Now…

Standards all listed in ELA

Fiction reading

Literacy is shared with SS, Science, and technical subjects (own set of standards)

Ratio of fiction to informational text is: -50/50 by 4th grade -45/55 by 8th grade -30/70 by 12th grade

Increased Text Complexity

What’s different in WRITING?

Past Oregon Standards

CCSS

Four Modes:

NarrativeImaginativePersuasive (5th grade)Expository

Three Modes:

Opinion/Argument (K-5) Opinion (6-12) Argument*Informative/ExpositoryNarrative Technology component

Shared Throughout the School

The standards insist that instruction in reading, writing, speaking listening and language be a shared responsibility within the school. CCSS ELA p. 4

CCSS Standards for History, Science, and Technical Subjects…

Taking a closer look…Look at the handout

What standard are we looking at?

Stay with #3

Begin with Kindergarten, end with 11/12

Highlight changes in language

Share- What did you notice?

Appendix BTypes of Texts

Performance Tasks

ResourcesCommon Core State Standards Website

http://www.corestandards.org

ODE

http://www.ode.state.or.us/go/commoncore

The Common Core Curriculum Mapping Project

http://www.commoncore.org/maps/ 

Ohio Department of Education Grade Level Curriculum Models

http://education.ohio.gov/GD/Templates/Pages/ODE/ODEDetail.aspx?page=3&TopicRelationID=1699&ContentID=86942&Content=108811

What’s Next?First question of PLC

The standards define what all students are expected to know and be able to do, NOT how teachers should teach

Tomorrow- Answer questionsDistrict VideoPLC/Departments

• Future PD- Site Council, DC, or Stop In!

Bring With You…Folder with standards

Laptop

Questions?