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Mahomet-Seymour Schools Understanding the Common Core State Standards CCSS

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Mahomet-Seymour Schools Understanding the Common Core State Standards CCSS

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  1. Mahomet-Seymour Schools Understanding theCommon Core State StandardsCCSS

  2. http://vimeo.com/51933492

  3. What are the Common Core State Standards (CCSS)? The Common Core State Standards set grade-by-grade learning expectations for students in grades K-12 for Mathematics and for English Language Arts and Literacy. While states have had standards for more than 15 years, this set of standards is more focused on preparing students for success in college and career. They set clear, consistent and high learning goals.

  4. Common Core Across the Nation

  5. State Standards/District Development • Common Core Standards establish benchmarks for what students need to learn, but our district will determine the best strategies and content for instruction and curriculum

  6. How do the CCSS differ from our previous standards? • Emphasis on critical thinking and concept mastery • Students not only gain skills and knowledge, but apply knowledge to succeed

  7. English Language Arts (ELA)Literacy • Building knowledge through content-rich nonfiction • Reading, writing and speaking grounded in evidence from text, both literary and informational • Regular practice with complex text and its academic language

  8. Key Considerations: Increased Emphasis on Information Text

  9. How can you help your child in literacy? • Ask your child specific questions about what they read. • Encourage children to read, then write and speak about, nonfiction text such as newspapers, magazines, and biographies.

  10. How can you help your child in literacy? - Encourage your child to research topics of interest and read series that relate to a central topic. • Have your child follow step by step instructions or a set of directions in order to accomplish a task, such as building a sandcastle or operating a game.

  11. The Shifts in Mathematics • Focus: Focus strongly where the standards focus • Coherence: Think across grades, and link to major topics • Rigor: In major topics, pursue conceptual understanding, procedural skill and fluency, and application with equal intensity

  12. How can you help your child in math? • Help children practice their addition, subtraction, multiplication and division facts. • Encourage children not to give up while solving problems, to build stamina and develop their critical thinking skills. Don’t give them the answers - ask them to think of different ways they can solve problems.

  13. How can you help your child in math? • Have children illustrate the math they were thinking in their head and discuss it out loud. • Have children apply their math knowledge to a real-world scenario at home, such as doubling a recipe or calculating the area of a room.

  14. How will CCSS impact annual tests • Spring 2014, final year of ISAT tests • 100% of the questions will be written to the Common Core • 2014-2015 School year, Illinois will transition to assessments tailored to the Common Core (PARCC Assessments)

  15. PARCC: Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers • High quality, technology-based assessments. • Tasks will better represent the classroom work completed throughout the year • Data provided to educators to inform instruction, interventions and professional development • Results will provide students/parents clear and timely information about progress

  16. PARCC will • Better measure students’ critical thinking and problem solving skills and their ability to communicate clearly • Bubble tests with one right answer will be replaced with the opportunity for students to solve real problems and explain how they solved them.

  17. PARCC Info • PARCC will be administered in Grades 3-11 in Mathematics and English Language Arts • Performance based (summative) assessment will be given in April. • End of the year assessments will be given in May • Tests are computer based and will evaluate student learning, showing development of skills.

  18. What our teachers aredoing to get ready • Our staff spent countless hours during the summer attending workshops, collaborating, reviewing resources and preparing for instruction to assure mastery of the CCSS • Our early dismissals, institutes and school improvement days are committed to Common Core implementation • Grade level teams meet weekly discussing curriculum and implementation

  19. Ongoing Work… • Teachers are developing foundational knowledge of common core content • Instructional Alignment/Curriculum Development-teachers develop curriculum resources to infuse common core elements into lessons

  20. Additional Resources • Illinois State Board of Education http://isbe.net/common_core/default.htm • National Parent Teachers Association (PTA) http://pta.org/parents/content.cfm?ItemNumber=2583 • Achieve the Core Parent Resources http://www.achievethecore.org/parent-community-common-core/parent-resources/ Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers http://www.parcconline.org/

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