COMMON CORE TRANSITION PLANNING

COMMON CORE TRANSITION PLANNING

Midwestern Intermediate Unit IVMarch 1, 2011

GoalsDevelop an understanding of Common

Core Standards and the PA commitment

English Language Arts

Mathematics

Explore online Common Core Standards and supporting materials

Preview Pennsylvania transition plans, timeline and resources

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Common Core Overview

Prepares students with the knowledge and skills they need to succeed in college and career

Ensures consistent expectations regardless of a student’s zip code

Provides educators, parents, and students

with clear, focused guideposts

Offers economies of scale

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Common Core Organization

English Language Arts Strands

◦ Reading

◦ Writing

◦ Speaking and Listening

◦ Language

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English Language ArtsNew Emphasis

Reading◦ Balance of literature and informational

texts◦ Text complexity

Writing◦ Emphasis on argument and

informative/explanatory writing◦ Writing about sources

http://www.corestandards.org/the-standards/english-language-arts-standards/anchor-standards/college-and-career-readiness-anchor-standards-for-language/

http://www.corestandards.org/about-the-standards/key-points-in-english-language-arts



http://www.corestandards.org/about-the-standards/key-points-in-english-language-arts

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English Language ArtsNew Emphasis

Speaking and Listening◦ Comprehension and collaboration ◦ Inclusion of formal and informal talk

Language◦ Stress on general academic and domain-

specific vocabulary

Design and Organization

Three Main Sections

K-5 Cross disciplinary

6-12 English Language Arts

6-12 Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science/Technical Subjects

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Appendices

A Research Supporting Key Elements

B Text Exemplars/Sample Performance Tasks

C Samples of Student Writing

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Anchor Standards

Four sets of College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards:

Reading (Page 10)

Writing (Page 18)

Speaking and Listening (Page 22)

Language (Page 25)

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From Anchors to Grade Level Standards

Grade level standards derive from the Anchor Standards.

K-2

3-5

6-8

9-10 and 11-12

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The standards devote as much attention on what students read, in terms of complexity, quality, and range, as they do on how students read. As students progress through the grades, they must both develop their comprehension skills and apply them to increasingly complex texts.

The progression of the standards is based on evidence and anchored in the college and career readiness (CCR) standards. The CCR standards define broad competencies and reading, writing, speaking, listening, and language while the K-12 standards lend further specificity by defining a developmentally appropriate progression of skills and understandings.

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ELA Standards Advances

More ELA Advances In order to prepare students for the challenges of college

and career texts, the standards require a rich reading of literature as well as extensive reading in science, history/social studies, and other disciplines.

Students are required to learn certain critical content, including classic myths and stories from around the world, America’s Founding Documents, and foundational American literature.

The standards also require that students systematically develop knowledge of literature as well as knowledge in other disciplines through reading, writing, speaking, and listening in history/social studies and science.

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Reading A Standard

CC. 3. R. L. 1

CommonCore

Grade Level

Reading Literature Strand

First Standard

Crosswalk DocumentsPA – CC by grade levelCC – PA by grade levelCommon Core grade-level

transition guides that detail specific emphasis

Grade-level transition guides that detail content that continues to be emphasized along with what is added

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SAS and the Common Core

SAS Resources: http://www.pdesas.org*

◦Clear Standards Tab

Common Core Tab

* Also located in PLC

http://www.pdesas.org/

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Mathematics

Standards for Mathematical Practice

Standards for Mathematical Content

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◦ Carry across all grade levels

◦ Describe habits of mind of a mathematically expert student

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Standards for Mathematical Content

◦ Presented by grade level, K-8

◦ Organized into domains progressing over several grades

◦ Introduced at each grade level by 2–4 focal points

◦ Presented by conceptual themes at high school


Describe varieties of expertise that should be developed in students

Rely upon longstanding important processes and proficiencies

Articulate the behaviors of truly mathematically competent citizens

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1. Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.

2. Reason abstractly and quantitatively.

3. Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.

4. Model with mathematics.

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5. Use appropriate tools strategically.

6. Attend to precision.

7. Look for and make use of structure.

8. Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.

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Mathematical Content: Domains

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Grades K-8Counting and CardinalityOperations and AlgebraicThinkingRatios and ProportionalRelationshipsThe Number SystemNumber and Operationsin Base TenNumber and Operations—FractionsMeasurement and DataStatistics and ProbabilityExpressions and EquationsFunctionsGeometry

High SchoolNumber and QuantityAlgebraFunctionsGeometryStatistics and ProbabilityModeling

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Content standards define what students should understand and be able to do

Clusters are groups of related standards

Domains are larger groups that progress across grades

http://www.corestandards.org/about-the-standards/key-points-in-mathematics


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Reading A Standard



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Grade Level Overview

Focus: Instructional Time

Provides in depth explanation for the grade level

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Key Advances Focus and coherence

Focus on key topics at each grade level. Coherent progressions across grade levels.

Balance of concepts and skills Content standards require both conceptual

understanding and procedural fluency.Mathematical practices

Foster reasoning and sense-making in mathematics.

College and career readiness Level is ambitious but achievable.



Math Standards Advances

This enables teachers to take the time needed to teach core concepts and procedures well and give students the opportunity to master them.

In grades K-5 students gain a solid foundation in whole numbers, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions, and decimals. For example, students in Kindergarten focus on the number core (learning how numbers correspond to quantities and learning how to put together and take apart numbers) in order to prepare them for addition and subtraction.

In the middle grades, students build upon the strong foundation in grades K-5 through hands on learning in geometry, algebra, probability, and statistics.

The high school standards call on students to practice applying mathematical ways of thinking to real world issues and challenges and emphasize mathematical modeling.

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Key Changes Focuses in early grades on number

(arithmetic and operations) to build a solid foundation in math

Evens out pace across the grades

Focuses on using math and solving complex problems in high school math - the real world emphasis

Stresses problem-solving and communication



CrosswalksGoal was to cover a narrower range of

math content areas at a deeper level.Grade placements for specific topics

made by state and international comparisons and opinions of educators, researchers and mathematicians.◦Large percent of PA Math Standards

that are either not aligned to the K-8 CC standards at grade level or aligned at minimal level.

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The majority of those CC Standards aligned to PA Math standards at a different grade level, were aligned with a PA standard at a higher grade level: ◦Grade 3 CC: 2/3 aligned to PA grade

4; 1/3 aligned to PA grade 5◦Grade 5 CC: most aligned to PA

grade 6◦Grade 8 CC: many aligned to PA

grade 1130

PA Math Standards Aligned to Common Core at Different Grade Levels:◦Grade 3: approximately 1/3 aligned to an

upper grade level CC standard and remaining to either grade 1 or 2 CC Standard.

◦Grade 5: Most aligned to an upper grade level standard

◦Grade 8: typically aligned to grade 6 CC Standard.

◦Grades 3 and 5: aligned to an upper grade level CC because the CC Standards do not cover particular content domains until the upper grades.

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All Crosswalk Documents can be accessed on the MIU 4 Curriculum Department wiki:

http://miu4curriculumdepartment.wikispaces.com/

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Common Standards: The First StepStandards are essential, but inadequate.

Along with standards,

• Educators must be given resources, tools, and time to adjust classroom practice.

• Instructional materials needed that align to the standards.

• Assessments must be developed to measure student progress.

• Federal, state, and district policies will need to be reexamined to ensure they support alignment of the common core state standards with student achievement.

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2010 - 2011 2011 -2012 2012 - 2013

Curriculum and instruction based on the current PA Academic Standards

Curriculum and instruction based on current PA Academic Standards

Continue with curriculum rewrites, with July 1, 2013, target date for full implementation of PA CC

PSSA based on current eligible content aligned to PA Standards(through 2013 administration)

Create instructional redesign cycle and begin modification of district-approved curricula in ELA and Mathematics using CC Standards alignment documentationprovided by PDE

Attendance at PDE/IU staff development sessions to begin transition planning

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For Planning Purposes…

Pink = PSSA Yellow = CC Implementation Blue = Potential Reassessment

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Common Core Concerns

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