Common Core State Standards and Essential Standards

1. Common Core State Standards and Essential Standards Information for HMS Families

2. Overview… English Language Arts… Math… Literacy… Essential Standards… Overview of Common Core

3. Overview… English Language Arts… Math… Literacy… Essential Standards… What are the changes based on Common Core ? • Emphasis on Reading and Writing • Emphasis on 21st Century Skills • Emphasis on Increasing Text Complexity

4. Overview… English Language Arts… Math… Literacy… Essential Standards… A College and Career Ready Student • demonstrates independence • builds strong content knowledge • responds to the varying demands of audience, task, purpose, and discipline • comprehends and critiques • values evidence • uses technology and digital media strategically and capably • understands other perspectives and cultures

5. Overview… English Language Arts… Math… Literacy… Essential Standards… Emphasis on 21st Century Skills • Teachers will scaffold for independence, teaching students to use media effectively and ethically and to work with others to learn and create.

6. Overview… English Language Arts… Math… Literacy… Essential Standards… 21st Century Skills Examples • Critical Thinking and Problem Solving: RI.7.8. Trace and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, assessing whether the reasoning is sound and the evidence is relevant and sufficient to support the claims. • Collaboration: SL.8.1a-b Come to discussions prepared, having read or researched material under study. Follow rules for collegial discussions and decision-making, track progress toward specific goals and deadlines, and define individual roles as needed.

7. Overview… English Language Arts… Math… Literacy… Essential Standards… Common Core Standards • English Language Arts K-12 • Mathematics K-12 • Literacy Component for History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects K-12 (such as engineering, technology, design, business, or other workforce-related subject)

8. Overview… English Language Arts… Math… Literacy… Essential Standards… English Language Arts Strands • Reading: text complexity and the growth of the comprehension • Writing: text types, responding to reading and research • Speaking and Listening: flexible communication and collaboration • Language: conventions, effective use, and vocabulary

9. Overview… English Language Arts… Math… Literacy… Essential Standards… Common Core for Mathematics • Standards for Mathematical Content to be College and Career Ready • Number and Quantity • Algebra • Functions • Modeling • Geometry • Statistics and Probability

10. Overview… English Language Arts… Math… Literacy… Essential Standards… Common Core for Mathematics • Standards for Mathematical Practice • 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 reasoning.

11. Overview… English Language Arts… Math… Literacy… Essential Standards… New Names for Math Courses • Middle School Course Names: • Common Core Math 6 • Common Core Math 7 • Common Core Math 8 • High School Course Names: • Common Core Math I will be offered next year (replaces Algebra I) • Common Core Math II and III will be phased in over the next two years (replaced Geometry and Algebra II)

12. Overview… English Language Arts… Math… Literacy… Essential Standards… Literacy Component for History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects K-12

13. Overview… English Language Arts… Math… Literacy… Essential Standards… Features of 6-12 Literacy Standards • Focus on discipline-specific vocabulary • Acknowledgement of unique text structures • Expectation for reading and writing in non-ELA classrooms • Expectation for development of informational/ technical writing skills • Focus on critical analysis and evidence

14. Overview… English Language Arts… Math… Literacy… Essential Standards… K-12 Anchor Standards for Reading • There are 10 standards organized under the following topics: • Key ideas and details • Craft and Structure • Integration of Knowledge and Ideas • Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity

15. Overview… English Language Arts… Math… Literacy… Essential Standards… Sample Standard

16. Overview… English Language Arts… Math… Literacy… Essential Standards… Key Factors in History Reading Standards • Textual evidence/sources • Relationship among events • Importance of author • Thinking across sources (adapted from Shanahan & Shanahan)

17. Overview… English Language Arts… Math… Literacy… Essential Standards… Key Factors in Science/TS Reading Standards • Understanding complex processes (follow precisely) • Translation (compare and contrast information in different forms, synthesize) • Critical thinking (distinguish among, assess, evaluate) (adapted from Shanahan & Shanahan)

18. Overview… English Language Arts… Math… Literacy… Essential Standards… K- 12 Anchor Standards for Writing • There are 10 standards organized under the following topics: • Text types and purposes • Production and Distribution of Writing • Research to Build and Present Knowledge • Range of Writing

19. Overview… English Language Arts… Math… Literacy… Essential Standards… Overview of Essential Standards

20. Overview… English Language Arts… Math… Literacy… Essential Standards… Essential Standards • The following contents have adopted (or are in the process of being adopted) standards and implementation is scheduled for 2012-13: • Science • Arts Education • World Language • Social Studies • Healthful Living • Occupational Course of Study – Implemented in 2011-12 • Information and Technology Skills – Implemented in 2011-12 • Guidance • CTE

21. Overview… English Language Arts… Math… Literacy… Essential Standards… What are the changes in the Essential Standards from the Current SCoS? • Identifies essential standards and further clarifies these standards through the objectives • Emphasis on depth vs. breadth • Based on Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy • http://www.odu.edu/educ/roverbau/Bloom/blooms_taxonomy.htm

22. Overview… English Language Arts… Math… Literacy… Essential Standards… Essential Standards for Social Studies • Reflects a shift to a more conceptual framework – • not facts taught in isolation, • not memorization of names and dates but instead the connections and causality, and • Shift from regional coverage of content to chronological • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWz08mVUIt8

23. Overview… English Language Arts… Math… Literacy… Essential Standards… Essential Standards for Social Studies • There are five strands: • History • Geography • Culture • Civics • Economics

24. Overview… English Language Arts… Math… Literacy… Essential Standards… Essential Standards for Science • In K-8, students study: • earth, • life, and • physical science topics each year • Some topics have shifted from one grade level to another • Inquiry is integrated into each topic

25. Overview… English Language Arts… Math… Literacy… Essential Standards… What are the changes based on Common Core ? • Emphasis on Reading and Writing • Emphasis on 21st Century Skills • Emphasis on Increasing Text Complexity

26. Online Resource • http://www.dpi.state.nc.us/acre/standards/common-core/