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Preparing All Students for College and Career Readiness

Preparing All Students for College and Career Readiness. CCSS a nd Smarter Balanced Assessments 101. What to Expect Tonight. An Explanation of CCSS An Overview of the Smarter Balanced Assessment System (SBAC) Sample Assessment Practice Test Resources. 21 st Century Learners Need….

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Preparing All Students for College and Career Readiness

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  1. Preparing All Students for College and Career Readiness CCSS and Smarter Balanced Assessments 101

  2. What to Expect Tonight • An Explanation of CCSS • An Overview of the Smarter Balanced Assessment System (SBAC) • Sample Assessment Practice Test • Resources

  3. 21st Century Learners Need…

  4. Building the Why… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5s0rRk9sER0

  5. Quick Review of the 21st Century Teaching and Learning Focus • 21st Century Skills • 5 Cs • Critical Thinking • Creativity • Collaboration • Communication • Citizenship • 21st Century Themes • Global Awareness • Financial, Economic, Business and Entrepreneurial Literacy • Civic Literacy • Health Literacy • Environmental Literacy

  6. Curriculum Development • Pacing Guides • Materials and Support Docs • Sample Lessons • Assessments • Instructional Methodology Understand the “Why” Understand the “Shifts” III. Understand the Assessment 2011-2012 2012-2013 CWD CCSS Plan 2013-2014 Practice Refinement Report Cards

  7. English Language Arts

  8. Shifts in ELA •  Nonfiction Texts • Content Area Literacy •  Text Complexity • Text-based Questions • Writing Arguments • Academic Vocabulary

  9. The more we are read tothe more we can read…

  10. Mathematics

  11. Shifts in Mathematics • Focus • Coherence • Fluency • Deep Understanding • Applications • Dual Intensity

  12. What Consortium Does California Belong To? Orange County Department of Education

  13. Next Generation Assessments… • More rigorous tests measuring student progress toward “college and career readiness” • Have common, comparable scores across member states, and across consortia • Provide achievement and growth information to help make better educational decisions and professional development opportunities • Assess all students, except those with “significant cognitive disabilities” • Administer online, with timely results • Use multiple measures Source: Federal Register / Vol. 75, No. 68 / Friday, April 9, 2010 pp. 18171-85

  14. SBAC: Assessing the Common Core State Standards • English Language Arts and Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science and Technical Subjects • Mathematics • Summative assessment: Grades 3-8, 11

  15. ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS

  16. MATH

  17. Assessments

  18. WVUSD Assessment WindowMarch 18th-April 25th

  19. Window of Opportunity

  20. Student and School Participation… • Students in grades 3-8 and WHS 10th grade/DBHS 11thwill take Field Test • Administered on-line • Resemble the summative assessment to be given in 2014-15 • Most students will complete a test in ELA and Math • Untimed • Approximate time 3-4 hours to complete • Will be given over multiple days • Field test is a “Test of the Test” • Students will not receive scores

  21. Preparing for Their Future… “Deeper learning is the process of learning for transfer. It enables an individual to take what was learned in one situation and apply it to new situations.” ~Partnership for 21st Century Learning

  22. Resources for Parents… • http://www.corestandards.org/presentations • www.collegewood.org

  23. Now Let’s Take the Practice Test… http://www.smarterbalanced.org/practice-test/

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