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Crossing the Bridge to Common Core & Essential Standards Day 4. Heidi Elmoustakim Secondary Literacy Specialist 9-12 Southern High School. SBAC. Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium North Carolina is a governing state Next generation assessments for implementation in 2014-2015
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Crossing the Bridge to Common Core & Essential StandardsDay 4 Heidi Elmoustakim Secondary Literacy Specialist 9-12 Southern High School
SBAC • Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium • North Carolina is a governing state • Next generation assessments for implementation in 2014-2015 • Samples, research, data, and item specifications are available on their website http://www.smarterbalanced.org/
Begin with the end in mind… On your own… • Complete the assessment items listed in your • Tag each item with the CCSS literacy anchor standards for reading and writing that apply. With your PLC/table… Discuss… In which course(s) these items might appear?
Reflect… • What have you learned from this activity? • How will this change your teaching? Planning? PLC’s? • What support will you need to make the necessary changes? WHOLE GROUP DISCUSSION
Course Overviews Standards Included in Units • Literature & Informational text reading standards paired • Italicizedstandards notate Gap Standards that are new for North Carolina. • Bold standards notate Power Standards that are heavily weighted on Standardized Tests. • Italicized and Boldindicates the standard is both a Gap and a Power Standard.
Course Overviews Unit Titles • suggested concepts to unify instruction • concept based unit plans available • teachers may develop their own units using appropriate alternate concepts • DPS Unit Plan Template is the district standard for planning instructional units
Concept Based Instruction UNDERSTAND CONCEPT KNOW DO
Work Session- 60 MINUTES Unit 1- A Closer Look… (WHOLE GROUP) • CCSS- sequencing of included standards • PLC common formative assessments & rubrics • Materials & resources- within grade level complexity band
PLC Work Session- 45 MINUTES Remaining Units-A Closer Look… (split up by building PLCs) • CCSS- sequencing of included standards • PLC common formative assessments & rubrics • Materials & resources- within grade level complexity band SHARE OUT WITH WHOLE GROUP