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Understanding The Common Core
An overview of the reasons, the structure, and the PARCC
Agenda1. Why do we have the Common Core?
2. What are the literacy components of the Common Core?
3. How is the Common Core a change from past standards?
4. How does the Common Core affect testing and assessing?
5. What about the PARCC?
Why the Common Core?
According to a Georgetown
University study, by 2018 about
2/3 of all employment will require
some college education or better.
http://www9.georgetown.edu/grad/gppi/hpi/cew/pdfs/fullreport.pdf
Meanwhile…
From New York Times Education section:
Looking at the Common Core
How do we find the Common Core State Standards?Google: Common Core5 Components
Worded so as to describe what students will be able to do.
Main Common Core components
The connection between reading and writing.
Reading Standard 3, Writing Standard 6.2.B
It’s about the evidence. Math: “Justify your reasoning.” ELA: Standard 1
It’s about text complexity: Standard 10
The standards change from year to year. Example: Reading Standard 2.
The common core is not a list of books to read or not to read.
Those decisions are still made that the district level.
The common core lists suggested texts as a guide to help districts, but those lists are not a definitive or required list.
The Common Core and Testing
Testingassessinggrading
Vs.
Testing, Assessing, and Grading
Introduction to the PARCC
The interfaceThe tasksThe rigor
Where are the shifts?
The interface: Computer Reading on-screen Clicking tabs to go back to multiple texts Dragging and dropping Highlighting Typing
The tasks: Two-part questions: what is the answer and
what is the evidence to support that answer?
Multiple choice with more than one right answer.
Searching for the best evidence rather than the right answer.
Creating an essay based on reading multiple articles on the same topic.
The rigor:
Items based on grade-level
Common Core State Standards.
PARCC FAQs When? It will be implemented in the 2014-15 school year.
Is it scored like the NJ ASK? That decision has not yet been
made.
How will it affect high school graduation? It will not count for
graduation during the 2014-2015 school year. The state has
not said when it will be used for graduation.
What about IEPs? There is a list of specific accommodations
on the PARCC’s web site. It is called the PARCC Accessibility
Features and Accommodations Manual.
How can I get more information? Our district’s Instructional
Technology website has links to a lot of good information
concerning the PARCC.
What is our district doing to prepare for
the PARCC?
The interfaceThe tasksThe rigor
FTBOE Field TestPBA (Performance Based)
CRS Grade 3 LAL Grade 4 Math
FPS Grade 3 LAL
SGS Grade 6 Math
FMS Grade 7 ELA
FHS Grade 10 LAL
EOY (End of Year)
FPS Grade 3 LAL
EAS Grade 3 ELA
SGS Grade 5 ELA
FMS Grade 8 ELA
FHS Grade 9 LAL Algebra 2
The interface
We are in the process of developing a plan to assisting students with the interface. This will include:
Use of the I-Ready program during intervention classes.
Use of laptop computers for instruction, with an ELA shift from final drafts (publishing) to first drafts (drafting)
Introduce students to the PARCC through the released PARCC sample tests.
Work with district technology coaches to find keyboarding websites, aps, and programs for use in class and at home. (Instructional Technology)
The tasks
Training staff on the PARCC using
the PARCC sample tests.
Developing and using common
assessments that model the
PARCC tasks and practices.
Using assessments from the New
Jersey Model Curriculum.
The rigor
Teaching to the standards.
Using the Reading and Writing
Workshop model of instruction.
Training teachers in the best
methods of instruction.
Next steps District-wide meetings to discuss the Common
Core and the PARCC in more detail. Planned for April and May
Continued meetings with building PTSOs.
The Common Core has brought on many changes all at once. The state and the nation are all trying to understand each other.
David Heras, Supervisor of Language Arts/ Literacy and Social Studies, Grades 5-8
[email protected] 732-423-1194
