Common Core State Standards,

Next Generation Science Standards,

and Environment-based Education Programs

History of the Common Core

Reason for the Common Core

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More video resources: http://www.youtube.com/user/TheHuntInstitute/videos

Common Core Mission Statement (abridged)

•  provide a consistent, clear understanding of what students are expected to learn – so teachers and parents know what they need

to do to help them. •  robust and relevant to the real world,

reflecting the knowledge and skills that our young people need for success in college and careers.

•  (from http://www.corestandards.org/)

CA Common Core Timeline

•  Adopted August 2, 2010 •  Full Implementation: 2013 – 2014

academic year •  English Language Arts Framework:

Scheduled to be available May 2014. •  Math Framework: Approved 11/6/13.

Scheduled to be in print Summer 2014.

CA Common Core Subjects

•  Mathematics •  English Language Arts & Literacy in

History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects

Three Shifts in Mathematics with the Common Core

•  Focus deeply on the major work of each grade so students can gain strong foundations

•  Coherence: Think across grades and link to major topics within grades

•  Rigor: In major topics, pursue conceptual understanding, procedural skill and fluency, and application with equal intensity

Common Core State Standards: Mathematics

Two Types of Standards: •  Mathematical Content Standards (different

at each grade level). – Expertise and skills and knowledge—what

students need to know and be able to do. – The mathematical content standards were built on

progressions of topics across grade levels, informed by both research on children’s cognitive development and by the logical structure of mathematics.

Common Core State Standards: Mathematics

•  Eight Mathematical Practice Standards (identical for each grade level) –  “Habits of Mind” that students should develop

to foster mathematical understanding

Mathematical Practice Standards

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. 5.  Use appropriate tools strategically.

Mathematical Practice Standards

6.  Attend to precision. 7.  Look for and make use of structure. 8.  Look for and express regularity in

repeated reasoning.

(source: http://www.cde.ca.gov/be/st/ss/documents/ccssmathstandardaug2013.pdf)

Mathematical Practice Standards

Common Core - ELA

•  Title of Document: California Common Core State Standards: English Language Arts & Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects

Three Major Shifts in English Language Arts Standards

•  building knowledge through content-rich nonfiction

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

•  regular practices with complex text and its academic language

Common Core State Standards: English Language Arts

Two Types of Knowledge: •  Content Standards

–  Reading –  Writing –  Speaking & Listening –  Language –  Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical

Subjects (grades 6-12; for K-5 integrated into the above 4)

Common Core State Standards: English Language Arts

•  English Language Arts Capabilities (or Practices) – Not standards themselves, but instead offer a

portrait of students who meet the standards set out in CCSS-ELA. As students advance through the grades and master the standards in reading, writing, speaking and listening, and language, they exhibit, with increasing fullness and regularity, the capabilities of the literate individual. (p. 6 CCSS-ELA)

•  Most relevant content standards for environment-based education programs are the Listening and Speaking set

Most Relevant Standards

Key Ideas in Common Core – ELA: Speaking and Listening

•  purposeful academic talk in collaborative settings

•  flexible communication and collaboration •  require students to develop a range of

broadly useful oral communication and interpersonal skills

•  (video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZXwEaHrdbo&list=PLU5w_vKBBzWflmjNvpQv9Cpi4WcgPcxnM)

Key Ideas in Common Core – ELA: Speaking and Listening

•  Students must learn to work together, express and listen carefully to ideas, integrate information from oral, visual, quantitative, and media sources, evaluate what they hear, use media and visual displays strategically to help achieve communicative purposes, and adapt speech to context and task.

(source: http://www.cde.ca.gov/be/st/ss/documents/finalelaccssstandards.pdf)

Speaking and Listening “An important focus of the speaking and listening standards is academic discussion in one-on-one, small-group, and whole-class settings. Formal presentations are one important way such talk occurs, but so is the more informal discussion that takes place as students collaborate to answer questions, build understanding, and solve problems.”

(Source: http://www.corestandards.org/resources/key-points-in-english-language-arts)

Students Who Are College and Career Ready in Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening, and Language Have These Capabilities (“Practices”)

1.  They demonstrate independence. 2.  They build strong content knowledge. 3.  They respond to the varying demands of

audience, task, purpose, and discipline. 4.  They comprehend as well as critique. 5.  They value evidence.

Students Who Are College and Career Ready in Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening, and Language Have These Capabilities (“Practices”)

6.  They use technology and digital media strategically and capably.

7.  They come to understand other perspectives and cultures.

(source: http://www.cde.ca.gov/be/st/ss/documents/finalelaccssstandards.pdf)

Next Generation Science Standards Timeline

•  Adopted by California September 4, 2013. •  Middle Grades (6 – 8th): SBE approved

both the integrated model AND a discipline-specific model. Districts will have the option to choose.

•  California Science Framework scheduled to be completed early 2016.

Next Generation Science Standards Timeline

•  Absolutely earliest implementation will be 2015 – 2016, most likely 2016 - 2017.

•  Instructional material development 2016 – 2017

•  Assessment?

Conceptual Shifts in the NGSS •  K-12 science education should reflect the

interconnected Nature of Science as it is practiced and experienced in the real world.

•  The NGSS are student performance expectations – not curriculum.

•  The science concepts in the NGSS build coherently from K – 12.

(source:http://www.nextgenscience.org/sites/ngss/files/Appendix%20A%20-%204.11.13%20Conceptual%20Shifts%20in%20the%20Next%20Generation%20Science%20Standards.pdf)

Conceptual Shifts in the NGSS •  Focus on deeper understanding of content

as well as application of content. •  Science and engineering are integrated in

the NGSS, from K – 12. •  The NGSS are designed to prepare

students for college, career, and citizenship.

(source:http://www.nextgenscience.org/sites/ngss/files/Appendix%20A%20-%204.11.13%20Conceptual%20Shifts%20in%20the%20Next%20Generation%20Science%20Standards.pdf)

Conceptual Shifts in the NGSS •  The NGSS and Common Core State

Standards (English Language Arts and Mathematics) are aligned.

(source:http://www.nextgenscience.org/sites/ngss/files/Appendix%20A%20-%204.11.13%20Conceptual%20Shifts%20in%20the%20Next%20Generation%20Science%20Standards.pdf)

Next Generation Science Standards

Three Dimensions Interwoven in NGSS: -  Content: Core ideas in the discipline -  Science and engineering practices -  Crosscutting concepts across disciplines

Disciplinary Core Ideas

•  Physical Sciences – matter, motion, forces, energy, waves

•  Life Sciences – molecules to organisms, ecosystems,

heredity, biological evolution

Disciplinary Core Ideas

•  Earth and Space Sciences – Earth’s place in the universe, Earth’s systems,

Earth and human activity •  Engineering, Technology, and the

Applications of Science (NEW) – Engineering design; links among engineering,

technology, science and society

Crosscutting Concepts 1.  Patterns 2.  Cause and effect 3.  Scale, proportion, and quantity 4.  Systems and system models 5.  Energy and matter: Flows, cycles, and

conservation 6.  Structure and function 7.  Stability and change

Scientific and Engineering Practices 1.  Asking questions

and defining problems

2.  Developing and using models

3.  Planning and carrying out investigations

4.  Analyzing and interpreting data

5.  Using mathematics and computational thinking

6.  Constructing explanations and designing solutions

7.  Engaging in argument from evidence

8.  Obtaining, evaluating, and communicating information

Weaving the CCSS and NGSS Practices Together in

Environment-based Programs

Ways to Support CCSS and NGSS Practices, and ELA Speaking and Listening

Standards in Environment-based Education Programs

Questioning Strategies

•  Socratic Questioning •  Bloom’s Taxonomy

Engage Students in Academic Conversations that Require

Them To:

•  elaborate, clarify •  question •  support ideas with examples and

evidence (sources/additional info.: http://www.jeffzwiers.com/ac/ac_overview.html; http://www.jeffzwiers.com/ac/index.html; http://www.jeffzwiers.org/; http://www.aldnetwork.org/academic-language)

•  paraphrase •  build on ideas •  synthesize key ideas of the

conversation

Engage Students in Academic Conversations that Require

Them To:

(sources/additional info.: http://www.jeffzwiers.com/ac/ac_overview.html; http://www.jeffzwiers.com/ac/index.html; http://www.jeffzwiers.org/; http://www.aldnetwork.org/academic-language)

*source: http://myboe.org/portal/default/Content/Viewer/Content?action=2&scId=306591&sciId=12153)

Academic Conversation Example: Patterns / Math

(video clip showing academic conversation in a K math class)