Texas College and Career Readiness Standards

1. Texas College and Career Readiness Standards Cross Disciplinary Standards

2. Objectives • Identify the purpose and structure of the College Career and Readiness Standards (CCRS). • Specify the knowledge and skills necessary to succeed in entry-level college and university courses. • At the end of the module, you will be asked to complete an Online Assessment to earn credit for this course.

3. CCRS - Introduction

4. CCRS – Cross Disciplinary Standards • Some elements that go across one or more disciplines. • Some elements span all five subject areas.

5. CCRS – Cross Disciplinary Standards • Important to identify knowledge and skills that connect all four disciplinary areas. • CCRS adds a section for Cross-Disciplinary Standards • Reason and Problem Solving • Cite examples that support your conclusions. • Reading • Scan headlines, graphs, pictures, sidebars to form an overall understanding of a text. • Writing • Use symbols, diagrams, graphs, and words to communicate ideas • Data Analysis • Identify patterns • Conducting Research • Gather information related to a topic of study

6. CCRS – Cross Disciplinary Standards • Academic and business leaders emphasize the importance of applying these skills across a variety of contexts. • Workplace tasks increasingly require application of knowledge across subject areas. • Increasingly require mastery and application of communication and analysis skills across disciplines.

7. Key Cognitive Skills

8. CCRS – Cross Disciplinary Standards • Cross Disciplinary Standards: • Key Cognitive Sills • Intellectual behaviors that are relevant in entry-level college courses • Intellectual curiosity • Reasoning • Problem solving • Academic Behaviors • Work Habits • Academic Integrity

9. Key Cognitive Skills • Intellectual Curiosity • Engage in scholarly inquiry and dialogue • Accept constructive criticism • Revise personal when valid evidence warrants

10. Key Cognitive Skills • Reasoning • Gather evidence to support opinions, discoveries, and lines of thought • Problem Solving • Develop multiple ways to resolve problems.

11. Key Cognitive Skills • Academic Behaviors • Self monitor learning • Seek help when needed • Work Habits • Work Collaboratively • Academic Integrity • Evaluate sources of information for validity and relevance.

12. Foundational Skills

13. CCRS – Cross Disciplinary Standards • Cross Disciplinary Standards: • Skills that students should be able to transfer and apply across different subjects

14. Foundational Skills • Reading across the curriculum • Use different strategies to understand meanings of new words. • Analyze textual information

15. Foundational Skills • Writing Across the Curriculum • Write for a variety of different people for different reasons.

16. Foundational Skills • Research across the curriculum • Synthesize and put information together in an effective meaning.

17. Foundational Skills • Use of Data • Present data and findings in a variety of different ways.

18. Foundational Skills • Technology • Communicate • Display findings in various ways • Show information in a clear manner.

19. In Conclusion • Please take a few minutes to complete the online assessment by clicking on the following link: Cross Disciplinary Standards Assessment

20. Sources • "www.thecb.state.tx.us." . University Printing Services, n.d. Web. 25 Jun 2013.