Leadership for the Iowa Core Curriculum Facilitator’s PowerPoint

1. Leadership for the Iowa Core Curriculum Facilitator’s PowerPoint

2. Leadership for the Iowa Core Curriculum: Requirements and Expectations Objectives: • Clarify the expectations of the legislation that established the Iowa Core Curriculum. • Clarify the intents and purposes of the Iowa Core Curriculum.

3. Leadership for the Iowa Core Curriculum: Requirements and Expectations As you watch this presentation be prepared to signal your response to each question as directed by the facilitator.

4. Leadership for the Iowa Core Curriculum: Requirements and Expectations • Which content areas are included in the Iowa Core Curriculum? • Reading, Math, Social Studies • Literacy, Science, Math, Social Studies, 21st Century Skills • Reading, Math, Science, Social Studies

5. Leadership for the Iowa Core Curriculum: Requirements and Expectations • Which categories are included in the set of 21st Century Skills? • Employability, Financial Literacy, Health Literacy, Technology Literacy • Employability, Financial Literacy, Health Literacy, Civic Literacy, Technology Literacy • Employability, Financial Literacy, Health Literacy

6. Leadership for the Iowa Core Curriculum: Requirements and Expectations • All concepts and skills in the Iowa Core Curriculum must be taught to all students K-12 in any accredited public or nonpublic school. • True • False

7. Leadership for the Iowa Core Curriculum: Requirements and Expectations • The legislature provided a total of $8.5 million to local schools across the state to support the implementation of the Iowa Core Curriculum. • True • False

8. Leadership for the Iowa Core Curriculum: Requirements and Expectations • Those schools that have access to the Microsoft funds are prohibited from using them to support the implementation of the Iowa Core Curriculum. • True • False

9. Leadership for the Iowa Core Curriculum: Requirements and Expectations • Which of the following will each accredited school need to do in order to implement the core curriculum? • Align the content of the local curriculum with the concepts and skills in the Iowa Core Curriculum. • Provide rigorous and relevant instruction. • Align assessments with the concepts and skills from the core curriculum. • All of the above.

10. Leadership for the Iowa Core Curriculum: Requirements and Expectations • Which of the following is correct? • All schools are required to use the same text book per course. • All schools are expected to use the same lesson plans per course and teach those lessons on the same schedule. • The Iowa Tests will be replaced with a new statewide assessment. • None of the above.

11. Leadership for the Iowa Core Curriculum: Requirements and Expectations • The Iowa Core Standards and Benchmarks are broad-based statements describing what students must learn. The Iowa Core Curriculum drills deeper and provides more explicit details about what students need to know and be able to do. • True • False

12. Leadership for the Iowa Core Curriculum: Requirements and Expectations • When do high schools need to have their implementation plan written? • July 1, 2009 • July 1, 2010 • July 1, 2011

13. Leadership for the Iowa Core Curriculum: Requirements and Expectations • In which school year must high schools fully implement the Iowa Core Curriculum? • 2010 • 2011 • 2012

14. Leadership for the Iowa Core Curriculum: Requirements and Expectations • Which of the following is correct? • The D.E. will work with the AEAs to provide technical expertise to local schools • The D. E. will provide the AEA Network with assistance to prepare local schools to examine their curriculum. • The D.E. will establish work teams to support a focus on leadership, content alignment, instruction and assessment, and monitoring and evaluation. • A, B, and C • None of the above.

15. Leadership for the Iowa Core Curriculum: Requirements and Expectations What questions does this information raise?