Cutler Middle SchoolFebruary 4, 2014

Common Core State Standards/Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium

Familiarize parents with Common Core State Standards and Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium field assessment

Overview of the L.A./Literacy CCSS and classroom impact

Practice the Mathematics SBAC field assessment Questions and answers

Objectives:

5:30 pm Welcome and overview in media center 5:45pm one group to L.A./Literacy Presentation (room)

other group to take practice SBAC math field assessment (room 12)

6:35 pm Groups switch locations

Schedule

How the Common Core State Standards will help students achieve at high levels and help them learn what they need to know to get to graduation and beyond.

http://vimeo.com/51933492

Common Core State Standards

Building knowledge through content-rich nonfiction

Reading, writing and speaking grounded in evidence from text, both literary and informational

Regular practice with complex text and its academic language

CCSS Instructional Shifts for Language Arts/Literacy

Focus strongly on the topics emphasized in the standards

Coherence: Think across grade, and link topics* within grades

Rigor: In major topics* pursue: ◦Conceptual understanding;◦Procedural skill and fluency; and◦Applicationwith equal intensity

CCSS Instructional Shifts for Mathematics

Grade 6 – Ratios and proportional reasoning, early expressions and equations

Grade 7 – Ratios and proportional reasoning, arithmetic of rational numbers

Grade 8 – Linear algebra, linear functions

Mathematics: *Major topics that support expectations of Fluency and Conceptual Understanding

Computer Adaptive Testing Performance Assessment In-Class Activity

Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium

Selected-response items Technology-enhanced items Constructed-response items Performance tasks (with in class activity)

Item and Task Types

TEST TYPE CAT Perf. Task Only

Total In-Class Activity

Total

ELA/Literacy 1:30 2:00 3:30 :30 4:00

Mathematics 2:00 1:00 3:00 :30 3:30

Total 3:30 3:00 6:30 1:00 7:30

SBAC Testing Times

Times are estimates of test length for most students. Smarter Balanced assessments are designed as untimed tests; some students may need and should be afforded more time than shown in this table.

SBAC Testing Time

Additional information and the powerpoints used this evening can be found by going to the CMS website – Shortcuts – CCSS/SBAC for Parents.

http://www.groton.k12.ct.us/Domain/345

Additional Information