Ohio’s New Learning Standards

Oak Hills School District

Tonight’s Objectives

★ Mission, Vision, Core Beliefs of Oak Hills.

★ New standards as a guide to good instruction.- How are standards, classrooms, and tests

changing?

★ How new standards are impacting Oak Hills.

★ Where to seek additional information.

Why talk about Learning Standards?

★We are committed to success in improving instruction and learning.

★Competitive skills for 21st century.

★Committed to developing the “whole child.”

Success requires many resources

★ Curriculum, instruction, assessment.

★ Outstanding personnel.

★ Materials to support instruction.

★ Safe and conducive facilities for learning.

Changing Standards

★ Not much different than what we used before.

★ Opportunity for deeper levels of understanding.

★ Mastery of the “basics.”

★ Thinking, listening and speaking skills.

Changing Classrooms

★ More variety of reading and writing.

★ Thinking, listening, speaking skills.

★ Real world tasks and applications.

★ Cooperative learning and differentiated instruction.

Changing Assessments (tests)

★ Requires students to show what they know.

★ Engaging students in assessment.

★ Immediate feedback to inform instruction.

★ Interactive and web-based.

Sample Test Questions

Elementary

Middle School

High School

How have we been preparing?

★ Revised curriculum maps and lessons to make the new standards our own.

★ Increasing rigor of classroom instruction and assessment.

★ Focus on all students mastering grade level topics.

★ Upgrading technology.

Transition will likely mean lower test scores (at first)

★ Performance dip expected at first (local and state).

★ More rigorous standards.

★ More rigorous assessments.

★ Instruction and learning will improve.

What can I do as a parent?

★ Explore the new content standards.

★ Offer support to improving teaching and learning.

★ Understand that a “drop” in performance is likely.

★ Continue working at home with your children.

★ Hold us accountable to improving.

Need more information?

Oak Hills website: ohlsd.us

corestandards.org

parcconline.org/common-core-ohio

education.ohio.gov/Topics/Academic-Content-Standards