1 / 35

Walnut Valley Unified School District

Walnut Valley Unified School District. An Introduction to the Common Core State Standards and Smarter Balanced Assessments February 2014. Common Core State Standards Preparing All Students for College, Career and Life Success. Essential Objectives.

sveta
Download Presentation

Walnut Valley Unified School District

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Walnut Valley Unified School District An Introduction to the Common Core State Standards and Smarter Balanced Assessments February 2014

  2. Common Core State Standards Preparing All Students for College, Career and Life Success

  3. Essential Objectives • Explanation of the Common Core Standards and Instructional Shifts • Overview of the Smarter Balanced Assessment System (SBAC) and scheduling for our district • Parent Resources

  4. WILL OUR STUDENTS BE PREPARED? • 2014 – Kindergarten • 2020 – Middle School • 2017 – Third Grade • 2026 – Graduation Day

  5. OUR CHILDREN’S FUTURE What will the world be like 20 years from now when our kindergartners are finishing college and entering into their careers? What skills will they need to be successful?

  6. Transition to the Common Core • http://www.youtube.com/watch/?v=5s0rRk9sER0&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%2F%3Fv%3D5s0rRk9sER0&nomobile=1

  7. The Common Core Standards: • Provide a consistent, clear understanding of what students are expected to learn • Rigorous and relevant to the real world • Reflects the knowledge and skills that our young people need for success in college and careers • Students ready to compete successfully in the global economy.

  8. Implementing Common Core Standards: • Requires our education system to do things substantially differently at all levels • Requires a more integrated approach to delivering content instruction. • -Tom Torlakson, State Superintendent • of Public Instruction California Department of Education, 2011

  9. The Standards Provide a Paradigm Shift for Teaching, Learning, and Assessment

  10. The Standards Provide a Paradigm Shift for Teaching, Learning, and Assessment

  11. The Standards Provide a Paradigm Shift for Teaching, Learning, and Assessment

  12. The Standards Provide a Paradigm Shift for Teaching, Learning, and Assessment

  13. 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 WVUSD CCSS Plan 2013-2014

  14. 6 Shifts in ELA/Literacy

  15. Literacy Shift 1: Building Knowledge through Content-RichNon-Fiction Students must… Parents can… • Read more non-fiction texts and sources • Be able to discuss the text using details from the source • Utilize primary source documents • Supply more non-fiction texts • Read aloud or discuss non-fiction texts with your child • Have fun with non-fiction in front of them

  16. Literacy Shift 2:Literacy Instruction in All Content Areas Students must… Parents can… • Read science and social texts • Handle “primary source” documents • Utilize all types of sources • Supply series of texts on topics of interest • Find books that provide explanation of different topics • Discuss non-fiction texts and the ideas in the content

  17. Literacy Shift 3:Text Complexity Students must… Parents can… • Re-read • Read material at comfort level and work with more challenging material • Build perseverance with working on assignments • Provide challenging grade appropriate texts • Read challenging material with children • Demonstrate that challenging material is worth reading

  18. Literacy Shift 4:Text-Based Answers Students must… Parents can… • Find evidence to support different points of view • Form opinion and justify with facts • Discuss what the author is intending to communicate • Help find the facts or information in the text • Expect evidence in daily discussions/viewpoints • Ask questions and expect answers based on facts and evidence

  19. Literacy Shift 5:Writing from Sources Students must… Parents can… • Make arguments in writing using evidence • Compare multiple sources in writing • Write using evidence from sources • Encourage writing at home • Write “books” together and use evidence and details • Reference primary sources for authenticity

  20. Literacy Shift 6:Academic Vocabulary Students must… Parents can… • Learn the words that they can use in college and career • Understand the power of language • Read often and share learned knowledge • Read multiple books about the same topics • Let your kids see you reading • Listen to your children, read often, sing with your children, make up silly rhymes and games with young children

  21. Six Math Shifts

  22. Mathematics Shift 1:Focus Students must… Parents can… • Learn foundational skills • Experience deeper learning with concepts • Know foundational skills for your child’s grade level • Frequently review previously acquired knowledge • Ask your child’s teacher about their progress

  23. Mathematics Shift 2:Coherence Students must… Parents can… • Keep building on learning year after year • Be aware of what your child struggled with last year, and how that will affect learning this year • Advocate for your child and ensure that support is given for “gap” skills

  24. Mathematics Shift 3:Fluency Students must… Parents can… • Spend time practicing lots of problems on the same idea • Insist children master basic math facts to memory • Know all of the fluencies your child should have and prioritize learning of the ones that they don’t

  25. Mathematics Shift 4:Deep Understanding Students must… Parents can… • Understand how math works • Articulate why the math works • Prove that they know why and how the math works • Notice whether your child really knows why the answer is what it is • Advocate for the time your child needs to learn key math • Provide time for your child to work with math at home

  26. Mathematics Shift 5:Applications Students must… Parents can… • Apply math in real world situations • Know which math to use for which situation • Ask your child to DO the math that comes up in daily life • Ask questions, rather than give answers: • How do you know? • Do you know where to find the needed information? • Can you make a table or diagram to show what’s happening?

  27. Mathematics Shift 6:Dual Intensity Students must… Parents can… • Be able to use core math facts…fast! • Be able to apply math in the real world • Be able to explain how they got an answer • Make sure your child is practicing the math facts she/he struggles with • Make sure your child is thinking about MATH in real life • Recognize there may be more than one way to solve a problem

  28. 21stCentury Skills will be the highly visible aspect of the change in the classroom • WVUSD focusing on the 5 C’s • Critical Thinking • Collaboration • Creativity • Communication • Citizenship WVUSD Areas of Focus for CCSS 21st Century Skills

  29. WVUSD and CCSS • Transitional Kindergarten, Kindergarten and First Grades began transitioning to teaching Common Core standards, shifts and strategies in 2012-13 • Transitional Kindergarten developed a report card that mirrors the CCSS • Second-twelve grades are transitioning implementing CCSS shifts and strategies in 2013-14 • Ninth, Tenth and Eleventh Grade English Language Arts classes have new textbooks written to the CCSS. • Staff Development has taken place and continues for teachers at all levels through the district and site levels • Outside consultants and conferences are utilized for additional resources

  30. Moving from Pencil/Paper to Computer Based Test

  31. Next Generation Assessments:SBAC

  32. Assessments 2013-14 • March 18-April 25 – Smarter Balanced Field Test on computer devices on English-language arts (ELA) and math in grades 3-8, Walnut High School 10th graders and Diamond Bar High School 11th graders • Field test is not computer adaptive • Districts, schools or parents will NOT be receiving any type of student data reports - field test only • CST Science paper/pencil assessment in grades 5, 8, and 10 • 11th graders will take the paper/pencil CST to allow for college placement results (Early Assessment Placement)

  33. How WVUSD is Moving Forward. . . • District provides professional development to teachers and administration • Sites dedicate time for professional development • Staff Development days dedicated to implementation • Grade level CCSS days • Technology increasing at all schools • District Steering Committee formed to oversee plan and expenditure of state funds for implementation

  34. Smarter Balance Assessments • http://sbac.portal.airast.org/practice-test/ • Wvusd.k12.ca.us

  35. Questions? • Please write any questions you may have on the index card. • We will post all questions and answers on our WVUSD website, under CCSS link • If you have additional questions, please contact your child’s principal or Jackie Brown, Director of Educational Projects, 909.595.1261, extension 31215

More Related