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Common Core State Standards. What are they? Standards in ELA and Math “A consistent, clear understanding of what students are expected to learn, so teachers and parents know what they need to do to help them.”
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What are they? • Standards in ELA and Math • “A consistent, clear understanding of what students are expected to learn, so teachers and parents know what they need to do to help them.” • “Designed to be robust and relevant to the real world, reflecting the knowledge and skills that our young people need for success in college and careers.” Common Core State Standards 101
Who created the standards? • The National Governor Association (NGA) • Chief Council of State School Officers (CCSSO) • Collaboration (teachers, higher ed, administrators, parents, content experts) Common Core State Standards 101
“I hear she likes apples so much she has core standards!”
If the Common Core State Standards are about math and ELA why are they important to us? • “Robust and relevant to the real world” • The standards set expectations for what students should learn but, does not say how • Focus on learning particular skills, not necessarily specific content • Teachers are struggling to figure out how to teach the Common Core • The Common Core provides an opening integrating economics and financial literacy content into the math and English classrooms
Project Director: Harlan Day Bonnie Meszaros David Dieterle Marsha Masters Mary Lynn Reiser Barbara Phipps Deborah Kozdras Jim Charkins Glen Blankenship Stephen Day Kim Sosin Beth Metzler Jan Mester The Project Team
We used the “baseball bat” approach. • There should be a direct link between the lesson and the common core state standard(s) • We should not “stretch” our content to fit the common core state standard(s)
General findings • Two main areas of Common Core Standards: Math Content and Math Practice • CC Math Content for each grade level K-8 and High School is very specific • CC Math Practice for K-12: 8 more general standards dealing with how math is carried out.
General findings • CEE materials are harder to match with CC Math content standards and are more easily correlated with CC Math practice standards such as • MP 1 Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them. • MP4 Model with mathematics • MP 6 Attend to Precision
Observations from K-5 team, Masters and Mester • 3-5 Math and Econ addressed more math standards than any other CEE publication. There isn’t a K-2 Math and Econ guide currently • Since the topic of money isn’t introduced until the 2nd grade, the FFFL K-2 guide didn’t show many clear connections…nor did the FFFL 3-5 guide • Few correlations in the Focus guides, but not as many as we hoped • Challenging in the math area because the standards were so specific that there were not clear connections but with a few tweaks, more lessons could be revised to match
Observations from 6-8 team, Sosin and Reiser • CEE Publications directly targeted to math such as Math and Econ 6-8 were reasonably well aligned with CC • Most of the math content in other middle level CEE publications are now designated to be taught in 3-5 grades • Reading graphs is not good enough for CC, students need to construct the correct graphs using data rather than locating information on graphs • Most middle school CEE publications that have econ/math CC matches are using ratios. percentages • Need mores CEE lessons that focus on statistics at middle level
Observations from 9-12 team,Day and Dieterle • Math and Economics: Connections for Life (9-12) has a lot of good connections. These were mostly in the form of modeling. A lot of the lessons gave the students “data sets,” i.e. frequency charts of market prices, and made the students both graph the data and create equations based on it. This was a great example of modeling, which many practical math materials do not already have. • Very little that correlated with CC in the other CEE 9-12 materials. The level of math was simply not high enough. To be precise, CC wants students to create equations (i.e. find formal, abstract ways) to represent problems, while most of the math in CEE materials involves giving the students an equation, and having them plug and chug the numbers.
Graphs, Statistics, Formulas & Charts Apps, Games, Interactives, Ebooks Images & Videos Real World Texts: Case Studies, magazine & news articles, etc. Primary Source Documents Websites Economics “Texts”
Shifts • Balancing Informational and Literary Text • Building Knowledge in the Disciplines • Staircase of Complexity • Text-Based Answers • Text-Dependent Questions • Writing From Sources • Multimedia sources (texts beyond words) • Academic Vocabulary
Literacy for Economics • Read Like a Detective • Reading with a purpose • Write Like a Reporter • Evidence and Inferences • Think Like an Economist
