Instructional Shifts
Colorado Standards
Office of Standards & Instructional Support
Colorado Department of Education
Colorado Academic Standards
Colorado’s Paradigm Shift…CAP4K
All Students, All Standards
Standards
Curriculum
Instruction
Focus, Coherence, Rigor
Disciplinary Literacy
Colorado Academic Standards
Focus, Coherence, Rigor
Design Principles and Instructional Shifts:
• Focus on the standards, the concepts and
skills graduates need for the 21st century.
• Coherence is evident in the
interconnections of concepts and skills
across grades and in and between
disciplines.
• Rigor requires fluency, application, and
deep understanding for mastery.
Colorado Academic Standards
Compare how
various
nations define
the rights,
responsibilities
and roles of
citizens
(7th grade)
21st Century Skills
Analyze and
practice the
rights, roles,
and
responsibilities
of citizens
Grade Level Expectation
PGC
Focus:
Prepared Graduate Competency
How do different
nations’
definitions of
citizenship help
us understand
the actions and
reactions of
various nations
to current
events?
(critical thinking)
Colorado Academic Standards
Vertical Coherence:
Vertical Progressions
PGC: Analyze and practice rights, roles, and responsibilities of
citizens.
Grade Level
Grade Level Expectation
High School
Research, formulate positions, and engage in appropriate civic
participation to address local, state, and national issues or
policies
Compare how various nations define the rights, responsibilities,
and roles of citizens
Seventh Grade
Fifth Grade
The foundations of citizenship in the United States
Third Grade
Respecting the views and rights of others is a key components
of a democratic society
Second Grade
Responsible community members advocate for their ideas
Colorado Academic Standards
Horizontal Coherence:
Concept Connections
In Comprehensive
Health and PE, an
understanding of
In Social Studies,
multiple perspectives
multiple perspectives
and their influences
develop students’
on emotions,
ability to understand
perceptions and
how definitions of
behaviors allows
citizenship are
students to manage
culturally, nationally,
their behaviors and
politically, and socially
develop
constructed.
understanding,
tolerance, and
compassion for
others.
In Visual Arts, understanding familiar and unfamiliar cultures
necessitates an examination of multiple perspectives in order to
discern intended meanings.
Multiple
Perspectives
Colorado Academic Standards
Rigor: Mastery
Citizenship Practices
Analyze multiple perspectives
Participate in democratic decision making
Demonstrate leadership and team-member responsibilities
Advocate for ideas
Respect the views and rights of others
Engage in appropriate civic participation to address local,
state, and national issues or policies.
Colorado Academic Standards
Additional Instructional Shift:
Disciplinary Literacy
• Building knowledge through contentrich nonfiction and informational texts
• Reading, writing, and oral expression,
grounded in evidence from text
• Regular practice with complex text and
its academic vocabulary
Overall shifts for instruction, Achieve the Core. http://www.achievethecore.org/steal-these-tools
Colorado Academic Standards
Additional Instructional Shift:
Disciplinary Literacy
Translation
• Building knowledge
through contentSection 1
Section 1
rich
nonfiction
and
informational
All legislative Powers herein
This
Constitution givestexts
Original Text
granted shall be vested in a
Congress the power to make
of the writing,
United
forexpression,
the United States.
•Congress
Reading,
andlaws
oral
States, which shall consist of Congress will be the
grounded in evidence
from text
a Senate and House of
legislative branch of
Representatives.
government. Congress will
• Regular practice withhave
complex
and
two parts:text
A Senate
and
a House of Representatives.
its academic vocabulary
Overall shifts for instruction, Achieve the Core. http://www.achievethecore.org/steal-these-tools
Colorado Academic Standards
Colorado’s Paradigm Shift…CAP4K
All students, all standards
Standards
Curriculum
Instruction
Focus, Coherence, Rigor
Disciplinary Literacy
Colorado Academic Standards
Instructional Shifts Over Time
Pre-Colorado Standards
Standards
• Content Knowledge
Pre-Colorado Standards
Curriculum
• How many U.S. Senators does
Colorado have?
Pre-Colorado Standards
Instruction
• Teacher centered
• Rote memorization
• Recall
Colorado Model Content Standards
• Content Knowledge
• Content Specific Skills
Colorado Model Content Standards
• How are U.S. Senators
distributed among the states?
• What historical factors
determined Senatorial
representation?
Colorado Model Content Standards
• Teacher centered
• Some content specific
questioning and skills
Colorado Academic Standards
• Conceptual Understanding of
Knowledge
• 21st Century Skills across all
content areas
• Mastery: application and
transfer of knowledge and skills
Colorado Academic Standards
• Why is it important to
understand the foundations of
our national government?
• Why should we know who are
senators are?
• How and when is knowledge of
our U.S. Senators important?
Colorado Academic Standards
• Student directed
• Analyzing/explaining concepts
• Skills to plan and develop
solutions to problems
Thank You
• Dr. Brian Sevier
sevier_b@cde.state.co.us
Colorado Academic Standards