Common Core State Standards

Crofton Elementary PTA MeetingSeptember 16, 2013

Why Common Core Standards?

Why Common Core Standards?

Top 10 Things Parents Need to Know about the

Common Core State Standards

What are the Common Core State Standards?• A multi-state effort to provide a

clear and consistent framework of instruction.

• These rigorous education standards establish a set of shared goals and expectations for what students should understand and be able to do in grades K- 12 in order to be prepared for success in college and the workplace.

What are the Common Core State Standards?• Were developed in collaboration

with teachers, administrators, researchers, and experts.

• Provides for robust instruction that is relevant to the real world.

• Maryland was one of the first States in the nation to adopt the CCSS in reading/English language arts and mathematics.

Major Shiftsin Literacy

1. Building knowledge by reading complex fiction and non-fiction texts

2. Reading, writing, speaking and listening activities grounded in evidence from text(s)

Major Shiftsin Literacy

3. Close reading activities focused on strategies, skills, and academic vocabulary

4. Students responding to text-dependent questions

5. Short-term and long-term focused research assignments

What Types of Reading Will My Child Encounter ?

50% literary texts and 50%informational texts in elementary school40% literary text and 60% informational texts in middle school30% literary texts and 70% Informational in high school

WritingNarrative Writing

Personal narrative, fiction, historical, fantasy, memoir, biography, narrative non-fiction

 Opinion/Argument Writing

Opinion letter, review, personal essay, persuasive essay,

Literary essay, historical essay, petition, tutorial 

Informational and Functional/Procedural Writing

Fact sheet, news article, blog, website, report, analytical memo, research report, non-fiction book,

how-to book, directions, recipe, lab report

Major Shifts in Mathematics

1. Focus: to narrow and deepen mathematics in the classroom

2. Coherence: think across grades, and links to major topics within grades

3. Fluency: students can quickly and accurately determine simple calculations

8 Standards of Mathematical Practice

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

8 Standards of Mathematical Practice

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

2012-2013

Reading Standards• F

oundational

• Literature

• Informational

2013-2014

Language StandardsSpeaking & Listening StandardsMath Standards grades 3-5

2014-2015

Full implementation of MD Common Core Curriculum Frameworks

PARCC Assessments

Laying the Seeds…

PARCC Assessments(Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Career)

1. 2014-20152. Computer Based3. Two Components

Performance Based Assessment (PBA) Short and extended response Given after 75% of the school year (around

March)End of Year Assessment (EOY)

Mostly short answer Given after 90% of the school year (around

May)

PARCC AssessmentsTypes of Questions

Evidence-Based Selected Response (EBSR)

Technology Enhanced Constructed Response (TECR)

Prose Constructed Response (PCR)

ELA PARCC AssessmentsTypes of Tasks

Type I: Narrative Task

Type II: Literary Analysis Task

Type III: Simulated Research Task

Each task will require students to: read one or more texts answer several short comprehension and

vocabulary questions write and essay that requires them to draw

evidence form the text(s)

Math PARCC AssessmentsTypes of Tasks

Type I: Assess concepts, skills, and procedures Common Core State Standards tested 68% of score PBA and EOY

Type II: Assess expression mathematical reasoning Common Core State Standards tested Standards 3 & 6 of Mathematical Practices 17% of score PBA

Type III: Assess modeling & applications Common Core State Standards tested Standards 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, and 8 of Mathematical Practices 15% of score PBA

Questions??