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Curriculum & Instruction

Curriculum & Instruction. Intended Learning Outcomes. Timeline Curriculum Changes Test Specs – ELA/Math Test type/delivery Text Complexity Social Studies Science Instructional Connections. Curriculum Cycle. June 2010: North Carolina State Board of Education adoption of the CCSS

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Curriculum & Instruction

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  1. Curriculum & Instruction District and School Transformation

  2. Intended Learning Outcomes • Timeline • Curriculum Changes • Test Specs – ELA/Math • Test type/delivery • Text Complexity • Social Studies • Science • Instructional Connections District and School Transformation

  3. Curriculum Cycle • June 2010: North Carolina State Board of Education adoption of the CCSS • 2010-2011: Item development for the Next Generation of Assessments • 2011-2012: Administration of stand-alone field tests of assessments • 2012-2013: Operational administration of assessments aligned to the CCSS- NCDPI • 2013-2014: Operational administration of assessments aligned to the CCSS-NCDPI • 2014-2015: National assessments aligned to the CCSS (Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium)- pending SBE approval District and School Transformation

  4. Three Shifts in Literacy Informational and NonfictionBuilding knowledge through content-rich nonfiction and informational texts Shift 1 EvidenceReading and writing grounded in evidence from text Shift 2 Complex Texts Regular practice with complex text and its academic vocabulary Shift 3 Draft – March 2012. Check http://www.ncpublicschools.org/ready/ District and School Transformation

  5. English Language Arts Grades 3-5 NCSCoS - ELA Common Core ELA District and School Transformation

  6. English Language Arts Grades 6-8 NCSCoS - ELA Common Core - ELA District and School Transformation

  7. Types of Items • Grades 3–8 ELA will consist of four-response-option multiple-choice items. • NCEXTEND2 assessments will consist of three-response-option multiple‑choice items, technology-enhanced items, and constructed-response items. • NCEXTEND1 ELA alternate assessments will consist of fifteen performance-based, multiple-choice items. District and School Transformation

  8. Delivery Mode • Grades 3–8 ELA assessment designed for a paper/pencil administration and may have an online administration option.Grades 3–8 NCEXTEND2 ELA assessments will closely follow the weightings of the standards on the general assessments. The NCEXTEND2 ELA assessments will be designed for online administrations.The NCEXTEND1 ELA assessments will be designed for paper/pencil administrations with online data entry by the assessor. District and School Transformation

  9. English Language Arts High School NCSCoS - ELA Common Core - ELA District and School Transformation

  10. Types of Items • High School English II assessment will consist of four-response-option multiple-choice items, technology-enhanced items, and constructed-response items. • NCEXTEND2 English II assessments will consist of three-response-option multiple‑choice items, technology-enhanced items, and constructed-response items. • NCEXTEND1 ELA alternate assessments will consist of fifteen performance-based, multiple-choice items. District and School Transformation

  11. Delivery Mode The High School English II online administration will also be available in a paper/pencil version.NCEXTEND2 English II assessment will closely follow the weightings of the standards on the general assessments. NCEXTEND2 ELA assessments will be designed for online administrations. NCEXTEND1 ELA and High School English II assessments will be designed for paper/pencil administrations with online data entry by the assessor. District and School Transformation

  12. Three Shifts in Mathematics Focusstrongly where the standards focus Shift 1 Coherencethink across grades and link to major topics within grades Shift 2 Rigorrequire conceptual understanding, procedural skill and fluency, and application with intensity Shift 3 Draft – March 2012. Check http://www.ncpublicschools.org/ready/ District and School Transformation

  13. Math Grades 3-5 NCSCoS - Math Common Core - Math District and School Transformation

  14. Item Type: Math • The Grades 3 and 4 mathematics assessments will consist of four-response-option multiple-choice items. • The Grades 5–8 mathematics assessments and the Algebra I/Integrated I assessment will consist of four-response-option multiple-choice items and a maximum of eight gridded-response items requiring numerical responses. • NCEXTEND2 assessments will consist of three-response-option multiple-choice items and gridded-response items. • All CCSS mathematics assessments will include both calculator-active and calculator-inactive sections. • One-third to one-half of the Grades 3–8 assessments will be comprised of calculator-inactive items; approximately one-third of the high school assessments will be calculator inactive. • The NCEXTEND1 mathematics alternate assessments will consist of fifteen performance-based, multiple-choice items. District and School Transformation

  15. Math Grades 6-8 NCSCoS - Math Common Core - Math District and School Transformation

  16. Item Type: Math • The Grades 5–8 mathematics assessments and the Algebra I/Integrated I assessment will consist of four-response-option multiple-choice items and a maximum of eight gridded-response items requiring numerical responses. • NCEXTEND2 assessments will consist of three-response-option multiple-choice items and gridded-response items. • All CCSS mathematics assessments will include both calculator-active and calculator-inactive sections. • One-third to one-half of the Grades 3–8 assessments will be comprised of calculator-inactive items; approximately one-third of the high school assessments will be calculator inactive. • The NCEXTEND1 mathematics alternate assessments will consist of fifteen performance-based, multiple-choice items. District and School Transformation

  17. Delivery Mode Grades 3–8 assessments are designed for paper/pencil administrations and may have an online administration option. The Algebra I/Integrated I is designed for an online administration but will also be available in a paper/pencil version. NCEXTEND2 mathematics assessments will closely follow the weightings of the standards on the general assessments. The NCEXTEND2 mathematics assessments will be designed for online administrations. NCEXTEND1 mathematics assessments will be designed for paper/pencil administrations with online data entry by the assessor. District and School Transformation

  18. Math High School NCSCoS - Algebra Common Core - Math District and School Transformation

  19. Item Type: Math • Algebra I/Integrated I assessment will consist of four-response-option multiple-choice items and a maximum of eight gridded-response items requiring numerical responses. • NCEXTEND2 assessments will consist of three-response-option multiple-choice items and gridded-response items. • All CCSS mathematics assessments will include both calculator-active and calculator-inactive sections. • Approximately one-third of the high school assessments will be calculator inactive. • The NCEXTEND1 mathematics alternate assessments will consist of fifteen performance-based, multiple-choice items. District and School Transformation

  20. Delivery Mode The Algebra I/Integrated I assessment is designed for an online administration but will also be available in a paper/pencil version. NCEXTEND2 mathematics assessments will closely follow the weightings of the standards on the general assessments. The NCEXTEND2 mathematics assessments will be designed for online administrations. NCEXTEND1 mathematics assessments will be designed for paper/pencil administrations with online data entry by the assessor. District and School Transformation

  21. Science Grade 5 NCSCoS - Science Essential Standards - Science District and School Transformation

  22. Science Grade 8 NCSCoS - Science Essential Standards - Science District and School Transformation

  23. Biology High School NCSCoS - Biology Essential Standards - Biology District and School Transformation

  24. Item Type • Grade 5, Grade 8, and biology assessments will consist of four-response-option multiple-choice items and technology-enhanced items. • NCEXTEND2 assessments will consist of three-response-option multiple-choice items and technology-enhanced items. • NCEXTEND1alternate assessment will consist of fifteen performance-based multiple choice items. District and School Transformation

  25. Delivery Mode • Grade 5, Grade 8, and biology – designed for online administration but will have a paper/pencil version • NCEXTEND2 – online administration • NCEXTEND 1 - paper/pencil with online data entry by assessor District and School Transformation

  26. K-12 Social Studies

  27. Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy • The use of a common taxonomy • (Revised Bloom’s or RBT) • Conceptually written standards • Strands • Provides the cognitive framework used for all of the North Carolina Essential Standards • Provides common language for all curriculum areas • Use of one verb District and School Transformation

  28. K-12 District and School Transformation

  29. Social Studies: Kindergarten – 5th Grade • K-2: No major content changes • 3rd Grade: Communities • 4th Grade: North Carolina through Reconstruction (2009 General Assembly HB 1032 - Yearlong instruction on NC history and geography in the elementary grades) • The focus of 5th grade has changed from a geographic study of the United States, Canada, Mexico and Central America to a historical study of the United States frompre-colonial times through Reconstruction. District and School Transformation

  30. Social Studies: 6th - 8th Grades • 6th Grade: Shiftfrom a study of just Europe and South America to an integrated study of the Ancient World through Exploration • 7th Grade: Shift from a study of just Africa, Asia, and Australia to an integrated study of the Age of Exploration to the present • 8th Grade: Parallel study of the United States and North Carolina (American Revolution – Present) District and School Transformation

  31. Social Studies: 9th – 12th Grades • World History addresses all time periods but the key focus is 1500s – present • Civics & Economics • Integration of Personal Financial Literacy • Colonial History is moved back into the American History course • Two American History courses • Similar standards/objectives • American History I begins with the European exploration of the New World and continues through the era of Reconstruction • American History II begins at the end of the Reconstruction era and continues to present times District and School Transformation

  32. The Common Core State Standard of Text Complexity: What does it really mean? How can we help make it happen? District and School Transformation

  33. Text Complexity—Appendix A Qualitative evaluation of the text • Levels of meaning, structure, language conventionality and clarity, and knowledge demands • Quantitative evaluation of the text • Readability measures and other scores of text complexity • Matching reader to text and task • Reader variables (such as motivation, knowledge, and experiences) and task variables (such as purpose and the complexity generated by the task assigned and the questions posed) District and School Transformation

  34. Rationale for Text Complexity • K-12 texts have become easier; college texts have not. • College textbooks, workplace texts, and newspapers are more demanding than materials used in 12th grade. • Instruction with HS texts is heavily scaffolded while students are expected to read independently in college. • The reading load in college is substantially more than what students typically experience in lower grades. District and School Transformation

  35. New (Common Core State Standards) and Old (Lexiles) QuantitativeGrade Bands * The K-1 suggested Lexile range was not identified by the Common Core State Standards and was added by Kansas. ** Taken from Accelerated Reader and the Common Core State Standards, available at the following URL: http://doc.renlearn.com/KMNet/R004572117GKC46B.pdf

  36. Shift in Instruction “. . . it is important to recognize that scaffolding often is entirely appropriate. The expectation that scaffolding will occur with particularly challenging texts is built into the Standards’ grade-by-grade text complexity expectations, for example. The general movement, however, should be toward decreasing scaffoldingand increasing independence both within and across the text complexity bands defined in the standards.” Appendix A

  37. Classroom implications of text complexity District and School Transformation

  38. CCSS Text Issues Highlights CCSS intentionally do not offer reading list/s, but do offer sample texts to help guide and inform CCSS establish “staircase”of increasing complexity to prepare students for college and career-level reading CCSS mandate certain critical types of content for all students including classic myths, foundational U.S. documents, seminal works of American literature, Shakespeare Students expected to read diverse array of classic and contemporary literature along with challenging informational texts in a range of subject areas District and School Transformation

  39. Science Essential Standards for K-12 District and School Transformation

  40. Science NC Science Essential Standards Vertical Progression • PSc.3.2.4 Illustrate the wave interactions of reflection, refraction, diffraction, and interference. • Phy.2.2.2 Analyze wave behaviors in terms of transmission, reflection, refraction and interference. • 6.P.1.2 Explain the relationship among visible light, the electromagnetic spectrum, and sight. • 6.P.3.2 Explain the effects of electromagnetic waves on various materials to include absorption, scattering, and change in temperature. • 4.P.3.2 Recognize that light travels in a straight line until it strikes an object or travels from one medium to another, and that light can be reflected, refracted, and absorbed. District and School Transformation

  41. Regional Wikispaces Below are links to each regional resource page created by the NCDPI RttT PD Leads designed to share information and support the work of the district/charter PD teams. This information is shared and compiled as a result of the training sessions, individual virtual conferences, district/charter team meetings, and more that are held in each region. Please take advantage of these resources and feel free to contact the RttT PD Leads for additional information. District and School Transformation

  42. Regional Wikispaces • Region 1: http://region1rttt.ncdpi.wikispaces.net • Region 2: http://NCRegion2.ncdpi.wikispaces.net • Region 3: http://region3pd.ncdpi.wikispaces.net • Region 4: http://rt3region4.ncdpi.wikispaces.net • Region 5: http://ncregion5rttt.ncdpi.wikispaces.net • Region 6: http://region6pd.ncdpi.wikispaces.net • Region 7: http://rt3region7.ncdpi.wikispaces.net • Region 8: http://region8wnc.ncdpi.wikispaces.net District and School Transformation

  43. Important to Know and Do… • Pay attention to new objectives, pacing, unpacking documents, Cross-walks, and learning progressions. • Limit following current textbooks and workbooks exclusively. Select and sort current materials to help pupils actively “dig” deeper in content. • Identify “gaps” and supplement by grade-level/subject kits, materials, etc. • Utilize DPI, district, and standard Smarter Balanced Common Core materials. • Remember: Every teacher teaches READING and LITERACY. District and School Transformation

  44. Common Core and Essential Standards Instructional Resources • Common Core State Standards: Overview of the standards, which states have adopted, etc. http://www.corestandards.org/ • For grade-level materials: http://www.ncdpi.wikispaces.net/ • Common Core Resources listed and annotated: http://www.ccsso.org/Documents/2012/Common_Core_Resources.pdf • Common Core: Contains units already written for K-12 ELA. Cost: $20 each to access K-5, 6-8, 9-12. http://commoncore.org/ • ELA Live Binders: Comprehensive overview of the ELA standards, produced by NCDPI. http://www.livebinders.com/play/play/297779 District and School Transformation

  45. Instructional Materials Cont’d: • Science ESSENTIAL STANDARDS SUPPORT TOOLS include “Crosswalks” and Unpacked Content http://dpi.state.nc.us/acre/standards/support-tools/ • SCIENCE SHARP SCHOOL site - http://science.ncwiseowl.org/ • NC DPI WIKI for Collaborative Workspaces- http://scnces.ncdpi.wikispaces.net/ District and School Transformation

  46. Let’s Explore Together… Find a partner, visit the presented links, and share other resources you have found helpful! District and School Transformation

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