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Cutler Middle School February 4, 2014

Cutler Middle School February 4, 2014. Common Core State Standards/Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium. Objectives:. Familiarize parents with Common Core State Standards and Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium field assessment Overview of the L.A./Literacy CCSS and classroom impact

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Cutler Middle School February 4, 2014

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  1. Cutler Middle SchoolFebruary 4, 2014 Common Core State Standards/Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium

  2. Objectives: • Familiarize parents with Common Core State Standards and Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium field assessment • Overview of the L.A./Literacy CCSS and classroom impact • Practice the Mathematics SBAC field assessment • Questions and answers

  3. Schedule • 5:30 pm Welcome and overview in media center • 5:45pm one group to L.A./Literacy Presentation (room) other group to take practice SBAC math field assessment (room 12) • 6:35 pm Groups switch locations

  4. Common Core State Standards • How the Common Core State Standards will help students achieve at high levels and help them learn what they need to know to get to graduation and beyond. • http://vimeo.com/51933492

  5. CCSS Instructional Shifts for Language Arts/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

  6. CCSS Instructional Shifts for Mathematics • Focus strongly on the topics emphasized in the standards • Coherence: Think across grade, and link topics* within grades • Rigor: In major topics* pursue: • Conceptual understanding; • Procedural skill and fluency; and • Application with equal intensity

  7. Mathematics: *Major topics that support expectations of Fluency and Conceptual Understanding • Grade 6 – Ratios and proportional reasoning, early expressions and equations • Grade 7 – Ratios and proportional reasoning, arithmetic of rational numbers • Grade 8 – Linear algebra, linear functions

  8. Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium • Computer Adaptive Testing • Performance Assessment • In-Class Activity

  9. Item and Task Types • Selected-response items • Technology-enhanced items • Constructed-response items • Performance tasks (with in class activity)

  10. SBAC Testing Times

  11. SBAC Testing Time • Times are estimates of test length for most students. Smarter Balanced assessments are designed as untimed tests; some students may need and should be afforded more time than shown in this table.

  12. Additional Information • Additional information and the powerpoints used this evening can be found by going to the CMS website – Shortcuts – CCSS/SBAC for Parents. • http://www.groton.k12.ct.us/Domain/345

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