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Common Core: What can Parents Do?

Common Core: What can Parents Do? . Session 2. Welcome!. Tonight’s Objectives. Help parents understand how the Common Core State Standards are different from traditional NY educational standards. Help parents understand what the shift to the new standards will mean for their kids.

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Common Core: What can Parents Do?

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  1. Common Core: What can Parents Do? Session 2 EngageNY.org

  2. Welcome!

  3. Tonight’s Objectives • Help parents understand how the Common Core State Standards are different from traditional NY educational standards. • Help parents understand what the shift to the new standards will mean for their kids. • Help parents understand how they can help their kids at home.

  4. Quick Review • What is college readiness? • What are the Common Core State Standards? • How do the new standards differ from the old ones?

  5. So, what can parents really do to help? EngageNY.org

  6. A Closer Look: ELA/Literacy Shifts • Read as much non-fiction as fiction • Learn about the world by reading • Read more challenging material closely • Discuss reading using evidence • Write non-fiction using evidence • Increase academic vocabulary EngageNY.org

  7. Parents SHOULD Students MUST ELA Shift #1: Read as much non-fiction as fiction • Read more non- fiction • Understand how non-fiction is written and put together • Enjoy and discuss the details of non-fiction • Supply non-fiction texts to read • Read non-fiction books aloud or with your child • Have fun with non-fiction in front of your children EngageNY.org

  8. Parents SHOULD Students MUST ELA Shift #2: Learn about the world by reading • Learn more about Science and Social Studies through reading • Use “primary source” documents • Get smarter through the use of texts • Supply texts on topics that interest your child • Find books that explain how things work and why • Discuss non-fiction texts and their ideas EngageNY.org

  9. Parents SHOULD Students MUST ELA Shift #3: Read more complex material carefully • Re-read • Read books at their comfort level and more challenging texts • Not just read, comprehend • Handle frustration and keep pushing to improve • Provide more challenging texts their children want to read in addition to books they can read easily • Know what is grade level appropriate • Read challenging books with your child • Show that challenging books are worth reading EngageNY.org

  10. Parents SHOULD Students MUST ELA Shift #4: Discuss reading using evidence • Find evidence to support their arguments • Form judgments and opinions • Become scholars • Discuss what the author is thinking • Make predictions • Talk about texts • Demand evidence in everyday discussions, debates and disagreements • Read aloud or read the same book as your child and discuss with evidence EngageNY.org

  11. Parents SHOULD Students MUST ELA Shift #5: Write from sources • Make arguments in writing using evidence • Compare multiple texts in writing • Learn to write well • Encourage writing at home • Write “books” together using evidence and details • Review samples of student writing: http://www.corestandards.org/assets/Appendix_C.pdf EngageNY.org

  12. Parents SHOULD Students MUST ELA Shift #6: Build an academic vocabulary • Learn the words they will need to use in college and career • Get smarter at using the “language of power” • Read often and constantly with young children • Read multiple books about the same topic • Let your children see you reading • Talk to your children, read to them, listen to them, sing with them, make up silly rhymes and word games EngageNY.org

  13. Activity: Fun with non-fiction With a partner, review the list of suggested non-fiction texts Working together, identify 2-3 that you think would be of interest to your children How often do you let your kids see you read? Discuss ways you can encourage your children to read those books, and what you can do to make sure they understood what they read EngageNY.org

  14. So? What are your ideas? EngageNY.org

  15. A Closer Look: Mathematics Shifts • Focus: learn more about less • Build skills across grades • Develop speed and accuracy • Really know it, Really do it • Use it in the real world • Think fast AND solve problems EngageNY.org

  16. Traditional U.S. Approach

  17. Common Core State Standards approach

  18. Parents SHOULD Students MUST Math Shift #1: Focus: Learn more about less • Be aware of what your child struggled with last year and how that will affect ongoing learning • Advocate for your child and ensure that support is given for “gap” skills: negative numbers, fractions, etc. • Keep building on learning year after year EngageNY.org

  19. Parents SHOULD Students MUST Math Shift #2: Learn skills across grades • Know what the priority work is for your child at their grade level • Spend time with your child on that work • Ask your child’s teacher about his or her progress on the priority work • Spend more time on fewer concepts • Go more in-depth on each one EngageNY.org

  20. Parents SHOULD Students MUST Math Shift #3: Develop speed and accuracy • Push children to know, understand and memorize basic math facts • Know all of the fluencies your child should have; prioritize learning of the ones they still find difficult • Spend time practicing by doing lots of problems on the same idea EngageNY.org

  21. Parents SHOULD Students MUST Math Shift #4: Really know it, really do it • Notice whether your child really knows why the answer is what it is • Advocate for the time your child needs to learn key math skills • Provide time for your child to work at math skills at home • Get smarter in the math your child needs to know • Make the math work, and understand why it does • Talk about why the math works • Prove that they know why and how the math works EngageNY.org

  22. Parents SHOULD Students MUST Math Shift #5: Use it in the real world • Ask your child to do that math that comes up in your daily life • Apply math in real world situations • Know which math skills to use for which situation EngageNY.org

  23. Parents SHOULD Students MUST Math Shift #6: Think fast and solve problems • Notice your child’s strengths and weaknesses in math • Make sure your child practices the math facts that prove most difficult • Make sure your child thinks about math in real life • Be able to use core math facts quickly • Be able to apply math in the real world EngageNY.org

  24. Activity: Finding math in everyday life • Working at your table, identify a list of ways you use math in everyday life (e.g. counting money, dividing a pie, etc.) and how you can involve your kids each day • Be creative! Think of situations that use • Addition • Subtraction • Division • Multiplication • Algebra EngageNY.org

  25. Any ideas? EngageNY.org

  26. Resources for parents EngageNY.org

  27. EngageNY EngageNY.org

  28. Additional resources • www.achievethecore.org • www.pta.org/4446.htm • http://www.cgcs.org/Domain/36 • http://parcconline.org/parcc-content-frameworks

  29. Closing discussion EngageNY.org What strategies did we discuss today that you think you might use with your children? What other information would be helpful to you? What other questions do you have?

  30. Thank you EngageNY.org

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