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Robla School District

Robla School District. Focusing on the Common Core State Standards 2012-2013. What is Changing?. Common Core State Standards Are Here! New State Assessment in 2014-2015 Illuminate Benchmark Assessments More Data, more often District-Wide Consistency New Report Cards High Expectations.

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Robla School District

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  1. Robla School District Focusing on the Common Core State Standards 2012-2013

  2. What is Changing? • Common Core State Standards Are Here! • New State Assessment in 2014-2015 • Illuminate • Benchmark Assessments • More Data, more often • District-Wide Consistency • New Report Cards • High Expectations

  3. Common Core State Standards • Prepare students for success in college and career • Are very demanding • Focus on high-order thinking skills • Are based upon student success in other top performing countries, so that all students are prepared to succeed in our global economy and society

  4. Higher Level Thinking BLOOM’S REVISED TAXONOMYCreatingGenerating new ideas, products, or ways of viewing thingsDesigning, constructing, planning, producing, inventing.EvaluatingJustifying a decision or course of actionChecking, hypothesizing, critiquing, experimenting, judgingAnalyzingBreaking information into parts to explore understandings and relationshipsComparing, organizing, deconstructing, interrogating, findingApplyingUsing information in another familiar situationImplementing, carrying out, using, executingUnderstandingExplaining ideas or conceptsInterpreting, summarizing, paraphrasing, classifying, explainingRememberingRecalling informationRecognizing, listing, describing, retrieving, naming, finding

  5. How Teaching is Changing . . . English Language Arts • Balance of Fiction and Non-Fiction • Reading at Higher Levels • Focus on High-Level Thinking • Finding Evidence in the text

  6. For Example We used to ask . . . What is the name of the pig Fern whose life is saved by Fern? or Have you ever loved a pet in the way that Fern loves Wilbur? Tell me about your pet.

  7. For Example Now we ask . . . What kind of person is Mr. Arable?How do you know? Find evidence in the book to support your ideas.

  8. How Teaching is Changing . . . Mathematics • Focus on Problem-solving • Focus on understanding the concept not on procedures • Foundational Skills • Collaboration • Multiple Ways to Solve A Problem

  9. For Example . . . Math Used to look like this

  10. Common Core Mathematics A Third Grade Word Problem : Two groups of students from Taylor StreetElementary School were walking to the library when it began to rain. The 7 students in Ms. Kimble’s group shared the 3 large umbrellas they had with Ms. Smith’s group of 11 students. If the same number of students were under each umbrella, how many students were under each umbrella? Draw a picture to help you solve the problem.

  11. Smarter Balance Assessment Consortium • 28 States • Comprehensive testing in grades 3-8 & 11 • Goal: Ensure students are successful in post secondary education or career • Beginsin spring of 2015 • End-of –the-Yearperformance tasks in reading, writing and math • Variety of Items: selected response, short constructed response, extended constructed response, technology enhanced & performance tasks

  12. Sample Item: Mathematics Constructed Response

  13. Sample Item

  14. Illuminate • Student Information System • Data Management System • Benchmark Assessments • 7times per year • Common to all classrooms at a grade level • Multiple choice (except at K-1) • Language Arts & Mathematics • Writing Assessments will be performance task

  15. New Report Cards for 2012-2013 • A year in development • Created by grade level teachers • Input from grade level colleagues, parents • Directly connected to Illuminate grade book • Grades will be based upon benchmark assessments and other common assessments

  16. Second Grade Report Card

  17. Sixth Grade Report Card

  18. Proficiency Levels STAR Test Report Card Levels Advanced Proficient 4 Proficient (80%-100%) Basic 3 Basic (65%-79%) Below Basic 2 Below Basic (55%-64% Far Below Basic 1 Far Below Basic (0-54%)

  19. How Robla School District Supports Students who are not yet Proficient • Intervention Teachers at Each School • Extended Day for Grades 1-3 • Intervention Groups such as W.I.N. time • Computer Programs for Skill Practice • Lexia • Accelerated Reader (at some schools) • Orchard • After School Tutoring • Extra ELD Support for EL students • beyond core ELD • After School Tutoring at some schools • Reading Partners at Glenwood and Bell Avenue

  20. To Learn More About Common Core State Standards: • You can visit these websites: • scoe.net • cde.ca.gov • Visit your child’s classroom • Speak to your child’s teacher • Become involved at your child’s school and attend School Site Council Meetings

  21. For information about this presentation in Spanish, Hmong or Russian speak to the Bilingual Community Outreach Assistant at your school

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