CCSS Vs. The Old curriculum

1. CCSS Vs. The Old curriculum PTA Meeting

2. MCPS and CCS Strand Comparison http://www.corestandards.com/ http://www.corestandards.com/

3. Mathematics

4. CCSS Mathematical Practices - UCARE • Understanding – Comprehending mathematical concepts, operations, and relations – knowing what mathematical symbols, diagrams, and procedures means. • Computing – Carrying out mathematical procedures, such as adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing numbers flexibility, accurately, efficiently, and appropriately. • Applying – Being able to formulate problems mathematically and to devise strategies for solving them using concepts and procedures appropriately • Reasoning – Using logic to explain and justify a solution to a problem or to extend from something known to something not yet known. • Engaging – Seeing mathematics as sensible, useful, and doable – if you work at it – and being willing to do the work.

5. What is meant by “understanding”? • Contents understandings build upon each other. • “Conceptual understanding is not an option, it’s an expectation.” – Skip Fennell

6. K-2nd Grade

7. These are the four most difficult subtypes that should be introduced in Grade 1, but which students may not master until Grade 2. 1st & 2nd Grade

8. K – 2 IndicatorsMeasurement Topic: Operations and Algebraic Thinking

9. 3rd – 5th Grade IndicatorsMeasurement Topic: Number and Operations

12. Social Studies and Science • The Common Core State Standards were only written for mathematics, reading, and writing.  The science and social studies curricula were written using the Maryland State Curriculum (that used to be the Voluntary State Curriculum). • Students in Grade 5 will continue to take Science MSA in the spring. • Science and Social Studies were taught in isolation and now they are integrated into reading and writing. • Science now includes an engineering component emphasizing STEM activities.

13. Reading

14. What’s different in writing? • Writing in response to content stimuli • Topic choice for writing often suggested • Up to three writing purposes in every marking period…opinion, narrative, informational/ explanatory • Writing in response to literature, integration with information literacy…research • Use of new technology

16. Academic Success SKills • Collaboration – Working effectively and respectfully to reach a group goal. • Effort/Motivation/Persistence – Working diligently and applying effective strategies to achieve a goal or solve a problem; continuing in the fact of obstacles and competing pressures. • Intellectual Risk Taking – Accepting uncertainty or challenging the norm to reach a goal. • Metacognition – Knowing and being aware of one’s own thinking and having the ability to monitor and evaluate one’s own thinking.

17. Creative Thinking Skills • Elaboration – Adding details that expand, enrich, or embellish. • Flexibility – Being open and responsive to new and diverse ideas and strategies and moving freely among them. • Fluency – Generating multiple responses to a problem or idea. • Originality – Creating ideas and solutions that are novel or unique to the individual, group, or situation.

18. Critical Thinking Skills • Analysis – Breaking down a whole into parts that may not be immediately obvious and examining the parts so that the structure of the whole is understood. • Evaluation – Weighing evidence, examining claims, and questioning facts to make judgments based upon criteria. • Synthesis – Putting parts together to build understanding of a whole concept or to form a new or unique whole.