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Common Core State Standards
An Information Session for Parents
Why Common Core Standards?
•By age 3, children from affluent families have heard 30 million more words than children from parents living in poverty. (Hart and Risley, 1995).
•Children who have larger vocabularies and greater understanding of spoken language do better in school (Whitehurst and Lonigan).
•If children aren’t reading at grade level by third grade, they are four times more likely to leave high school without a diploma (Hernandez, 2011).
Instructional Shifts for Students in ELA
•Read as much non fiction as fiction
• Learn about the world by reading
•Read more challenging material closely
•Discuss reading using evidence
•Write non fiction using evidence
• Increase academic vocabulary
ELA/Literacy Shift 1:Read as much non-fiction as
fiction
ELA/ Literacy Shift 2:Learn about the world by
reading
ELA/Literacy Shift 3:Read more complex material carefully
ELA/Literacy Shift 4:Discuss reading using evidence
ELA/Literacy Shift 5 :Writing from sources
ELA/ Literacy Shift 6:Academic Vocabulary
Instructional Shifts for Students in Math
• Focus: Learn more about fewer, key topics
• Build skills within and across grades
•Develop speed and accuracy
•Really know it, really do it
•Use it in the real world
• Think fast and solve problems
Mathematics Shift 1:
Focus: Learn more less about less
Mathematics Shift 2:Skills across grades
Mathematics Shift 3:Speed and accuracy
Mathematics Shift 4:Know it and do it!
Mathematics Shift 5:Real World application
Mathematics Shift 6:Think Fast/ Solve
Problems
How will our children be assessed?
Information about Assembly Bill 484•The assessment system for
California will be called the MAPP-Measurement of Academic Performance and Progress
•AB 484 does not impact the CELDT, CAHSEE, or PFT. These assessments will continue to be administered using previously established requriements
2013-14 MAPP for Elementary Schools
• Smarter Balanced field tests in ELA and math for grades 3-5
• Science CST/CMA for grade 5
•CAPA in ELA and math for grades 2-5 and Science for grade 5
• For accountability purposes:
• Thirty (30) students with valid test scores will now constitute a numerically significant subgroup
• Fifteen (15) students who are foster youth will constitute a numerically significant subgroup
• The API will now include achievement test results, attendance rates, and 4-year, 5-year, and 6-year graduation rates
• The State Superintendent has used the authority to eliminate API scores for the 2013-2014 and 2014-2015 school year if determined that transition to new standards-based assessments compromises comparability of results across schools or school districts
Accountability
Common Core Resources for Parents
http://www.cde.ca.gov/re/cc/tl/whatareccss.asp
http://www.ccsesa.org/index/sp CommonCoreStandards.cfm
http://www.cgcs.org/Domain/36