Common Core
Standards
Teacher Inservice
Fall 2011
Objectives
 Teachers will be able to discuss the basics of the
Common Core State Standards (CCSS).
 Teachers will begin to implement the CCSS in their
content areas in 2011-2012.
What is our collective knowledge
around the common core?
Know
Questions
Common Core State Standards Initiative
• A joint effort by the National Governors
Association and the Council of Chief State
School Officers
•
A state-led initiative
 States were in the driver’s seat
 The federal government did not
develop the standards or require
their adoption.
Standards Development Process
• College- and career-readiness standards
for English/language arts and mathematics
developed summer of 2009
• K-12 standards for each grade were
developed
• Continual input throughout the process from
states, educators, and business and higher
education leaders with 10,000 responses
during the public comment period
Common Core State Standards Adoption
44 states and D.C. have fully adopted the Common Core State
Standards.
What are advantages of common standards?
• Currently, every state has its own set of
academic standards, meaning public education
students in each state are learning to different
levels
• All students must be prepared to compete with
not only their American peers in the next state,
but with students from around the world
Features of the Standards
Aligned with college and work expectations
• Focused and coherent
• Include rigorous content and application of
knowledge through high-order skills
• Build upon strengths and lessons of current
state standards
• Based on evidence and research
• Internationally benchmarked
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CCSS Mission Statement
• The Common Core State Standards 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. The standards are
designed to be robust and relevant to the real world,
reflecting the knowledge and skills that our young
people need for success in college and careers. With
American students fully prepared for the future, our
communities will be best positioned to compete
successfully in the global economy.
• Common Core Standards
Features of the Standards
•
The College and Career Readiness
(CCR) anchor standards were written
first and describe expectations for the
end of high school.
•
The CCSS were then back-mapped
down to kindergarten to ensure
that students would
be on track early to
meet rigorous end
of high school
literary goals.
Timeline of CCSS
2010-2011
CCSS for ELA and Math adopted by Oregon Fall 2010
Oregon joins SMARTER Balanced Assessment Consortium
(SBAC)
NCSD has teacher reps from all schools to examine CCSS
and create alignment documents
NCSD landmark document is aligned to CCSS
2011-2012
ELA and Math crosswalks available on ODE website
Professional development for administrators and teachers
for CCSS
2012-2013
Continue implementation of CCSS
2013-2014
SBAC Field Test Questions Appear in OAKS
Full implementation of CCSS
2014-2015
SBAC Cut Scores Established
Spring 2015 SBAC assessment in use
Stepping Up to the Challenge
Next-Generation
Assessments
YOU ARE HERE
2012-2013
2013 –
2014
2014 2015
Smarter
Balanced
Assessment
Consortium
2011-2012
2010-2011
Kindergarten
CCSS
First Group of 3rd Graders
Explore
 Take 2 minutes - look through the CCSS in math for
kindergarten, 4th, and 8th
 What do you notice?
Let’s Play
 Smart phone? Download Common Core App
 Laptop? http://www.corestandards.org
 Old School Paper? Flip through
The standards define:
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What is most essential
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Grade-level expectations
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What students are expected to know
and be able to do
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Cross-disciplinary literacy skills
The standards do NOT define:
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How teachers should teach
What materials must be used
All that can or should be taught
The nature of advanced work
Intervention methods or materials
The full range of supports for English learners
and students with special needs
CCSS for Math
Standards for 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.
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.
What’s Different in Math?
In the past…
K-5 more focus on
patterns and geometry
Now…
K-5 focus on number and
operations
6-8 are designed more like high
New standards at each school standards with a primary
level- now more building emphasis on Algebra, Geometry
and Statistics
Advanced mathoptional
9-12 organized by conceptual
categories rather than grade level.
K-12 Common Mathematical
Practices
Standards for English
Language Arts
 READING
 Literary
 Informational
 WRITING
 Argument, Informative, Narrative
 Publishing
 Research and evidence
 SPEAKING/LISTENING
 Digital Media
 LANGUAGE
 Conventions, Effective Use, Vocabulary
Also in ELA standards…
 Section for Literacy in Social Studies, Science, and
Technical Subjects
 Appendix A = Research supporting key elements of the
standards with bibliography and glossary
 Appendix B = Text exemplars for each level (reading)
 Appendix C = Samples of student writing
What’s Different in
READING?
In the past…
Now…
Standards all listed in
ELA
Literacy is shared with SS,
Science, and technical
subjects (own set of standards)
Fiction reading
Ratio of fiction to
informational text is:
-50/50 by 4th grade
-45/55 by 8th grade
-30/70 by 12th grade
Increased Text Complexity
What’s different in WRITING?
Past Oregon
Standards
Four Modes:
CCSS
Narrative
Imaginative
Persuasive (5th
grade)
Expository
Opinion/Argument
(K-5) Opinion
(6-12) Argument*
Informative/Expository
Narrative
Three Modes:
Technology component
Shared Throughout the
School
 The standards insist that instruction in reading, writing,
speaking listening and language be a shared
responsibility within the school. CCSS ELA p. 4
CCSS Standards for History,
Science, and Technical
Subjects…
Taking a closer look…
 Look at the handout
 What standard are we looking at?
 Stay with #3
 Begin with Kindergarten, end with 11/12
 Highlight changes in language
 Share- What did you notice?
Appendix B
 Types of Texts
 Performance Tasks
Resources
 Common Core State Standards Website
 http://www.corestandards.org
 ODE
 http://www.ode.state.or.us/go/commoncore
 The Common Core Curriculum Mapping Project
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http://www.commoncore.org/maps/
 Ohio Department of Education Grade Level Curriculum
Models
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http://education.ohio.gov/GD/Templates/Pages/ODE/ODEDetail.aspx?page=3&TopicRel
ationID=1699&ContentID=86942&Content=108811
What’s Next?
 First question of PLC
 The standards define what all students are expected to
know and be able to do, NOT how teachers should
teach
 Tomorrow Answer questions
 District Video
 PLC/Departments
• Future PD- Site Council, DC, or Stop In!
Bring With You…
 Folder with standards
 Laptop
Questions?