COMPASS ParentsWelcome

What are theCommon Core State

Standards?

What should our students know and be able to do?

The Montana Common Core Standards …

for English Language Arts and

Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects and Mathematical Practice and Content define what students should understand and be able to do.

The Montana Common Core State Standards…establish high expectations for

student learning and achievement that will enable all students to be competitive on a district, state, national and global scale.

ensuring every student is college and career ready at the end of high school.

Students Who are College and Career Ready in Reading, Writing, Speaking, Listening, and Language

They demonstrate independence.

They build strong content knowledge.

They respond to the varying demands of audience, task, purpose, and discipline.

They comprehend as well as critique.

Students Who are College and Career Ready in Reading, Writing, Speaking, Listening, and Language

They value evidence.

They use technology and digital media strategically and capably.

They come to understand other perspectives and cultures.

Montana Mathematics Standards for Mathematical Practice

Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.

Reason abstractly and quantitatively. Construct viable arguments and

critique the reasoning of others. Model with mathematics. Use appropriate tools strategically. Attend to precision. Look for and

express regularity in repeated reasoning.

MCPS CurriculumYour thoughts and opinions…

Questions:

Chalk Talk

What is going well?

What could we do better?

Suggestions…

Motivation and Mindset

The Secret to Raising Smart Kids

Motivation

Why do you think your child struggles with motivation?

How do you try to motivate him/her?

Affinity Protocol

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To be motivated…

The task must have value.

There must be beneficial outcomes.

The student must believe they have the skills to accomplish the task.

They need to be able to set goals and apply strategies for success.

Why do you do what you?

Three Task Values

Attainment – identity

Utility – usefulness now and in the future

Intrinsic – interest and relevance

Either – Or and hopefully BOTH

EITHER the person enjoys the activity

OR they value the outcome/by-product

And hopefully they do BOTH

What to do…

Help your child to see the long term benefits - explain why it is important

Focus on strengths and interests

Relate it to the real world – make it real

Encourage self-advocacy – choice

What to do…

Review growth and improvement

Compete with yourself

Encourage challenge

Provide specific feedback

Understand that success is built on effort!

What do you believe?

No matter how much intelligence you may have, you can always change it quite a bit.

You can do things differently, but the important parts of who you are can’t really be changed.

Mindset

FIXED I need to look

smart If I have to work

hard, I’m not smart A bad grade is

because I’m not smart enough – I will now avoid that kind of challenge.

GROWTH Learning more

important than good grades

The harder you try, the better you become

Even geniuses have to work hard for their great accomplishments

It’s about the effort…

A failure is an opportunity to learn.

Mistakes are problems to be solved.

“Great accomplishments are typically the result of years of passion and dedication not something that flows naturally from a gift.”

Carol Dweck

What should we do?

Praise effort over intelligence.

Be specific about our praise.

Encourage challenge and growth.

Tell success stories that emphasize hard work

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