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Basic Information About Common Core State Standards

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• Should standards be established at the national level rather than the state level?

• Calls for improvement in educationo ESEA ,1965 o A Nation at Risk, 1983o Goals 2000, 1994o National Education Summit, 1996, 1999, 2001o NCLB, 2001o A Test of Leadership, 2006o America’s Perfect Storm, 2007

• CCSS grew out of the realization that preparing students for college and/or career was a common national goal.

Background

WHAT are CCSS?• Consistent and clear expectations of student learning • Guide for teachers and parents as facilitators of learning• Focused on college and/or career readiness• Based on both national and international benchmarks• Encourages deep rather than wide knowledge• Progressive learning

MathematicsEnglish Language Arts

Literacy in Social Studies/History, Science, and Technical Subjects

WHY do we need CCSS? Our current educational system isn’t working for our students.

• College degrees are required for 60% of future jobs.• Today only 26% of our population 25–34 years old has a

college degree. • Higher Ed reports that students are graduating who are not

prepared for college or careers.

CCSS offers opportunities for our students. It prepares them to compete globally. It gives them the chance to learn, regardless of where they live. It presents clear learning expectations. It offers opportunities for collaboration.

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--AR Dept of Higher Ed

• National Governor’s Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers made the original commitment in Spring 2009.

• Arkansas State Board of Education adopted CCSS July 12, 2010.• Forty-six states and the District of Columbia have adopted CCSS as

of March 2012.• Many stakeholders are now at the table:

NCTM, AFT, AEA, ACT, SAT, NCTE, NEA, ASCD, Achieve, K-12 teachers, researchers, post-secondary faculty members curriculum experts, and assessment experts .

• Stakeholders involved in the development of CCSS number 10,000.• CCSS has now been embraced by Gates Foundation and others

who are providing resources and support.

WHO is part of the CCSS initiative?

HOW were CCSS developed?

• CCSS are INTERNATIONALLY BENCHMARKED: levels of student achievement in Belgium, Canada, Australia, China, and England were considered.

• CCSS are EVIDENCE-BASED: requirements for students to provide evidence of learned content were imbedded.

• CCSS are RIGOROUS: a higher-level of learning was emphasized, referencing Bloom’s Taxonomy of higher-level thinking skills.

• CCSS are RELEVANT: students are exposed to learning that is pertinent to real-life.

WHEN will CCSS be implemented?

Timeline for Teaching Standards

2011 – 2012 Kindergarten through 2nd grades2012 – 2013 3rd through 8th grades 2013 – 2014 9th through 12th grades

2014 – 2015 All grades are responsible for full implementation

Timeline for Assessments2011 – 2012 Assessments aligned with AR Curriculum Frameworks 2012 – 2013 Assessments aligned with AR Curriculum Frameworks 2013 – 2014 Assessments aligned with AR Curriculum Frameworks; some new assessment items aligned with the CCSS assessments may be piloted2014 – 2015 Assessments aligned with CCSS for grades K-12

WHERE will CCSS take American education?

• CCSS will produce generations of students that are college and/or career ready.

• CCSS will provides common standards for assessment and

accountability.

• CCSS will improve instruction in all areas (not just ELA and math) by advocating connected learning opportunities and advances in technology-centered learning.

• CCSS will open doors for collaboration.

Common Core State Standards are not intended to be new names for old ways of

doing business. They are a call to take the next step.

----Excerpt from Common Core State Standards Document

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The Big Shifts• Text complexity• Increased reading of informational texts• Disciplinary literacy• Close reading• Text-dependent questions• Academic vocabulary• Both short and sustained research projects • Argumentative writing• Collaboration across grades and content

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The Big Shifts• Every teacher will be a literacy teacher,

emphasizing reading and writing in the content area.

• Teachers will enable students to read as scientists, historians, mathematicians, or artists.

• Teachers will tell and summarize less and use scaffolding more.

• Teachers will place more responsibility on students for the students’ learning.

Shared Responsibility“The Standards insist that instruction in reading, writing, speaking, listening, and language be a shared responsibility within the school.”

CCSS, page 4

“All courses in high school, not just English and social studies but mathematics and science as well, must challenge students to read and understand complex texts.”

American College Testing Program (2006) http://appleseed.org.nz/

Reading

Text Complexity

9-10 Drama Exemplars

Sophocles, Oedipus RexWilliam Shakespeare, The Tragedy of MacbethHenrik Ibsen, A Doll’s House.Tennessee, Williams The Glass MenagerieEugene Ionesco, RhinocerousAthol Fugard, Master Harold and the Boys

11-12 Drama ExemplarsWilliam Shakespeare, The Tragedy of HamletJean-Baptiste Moliere, TartuffeOscar Wilde, The Importance of Being EarnestThornton Wilder, Our TownArthur Miller, Death of a SalesmanLorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the SunSoyinka, Wole. Death and the King’s Horseman

CCSS, Appendix B Sample Texts

Personal essays, opinion pieces, speeches

Essays about art or literature

Biographies and memoirs

Journalism, including newspapers in the classroom

Historical, scientific, technical, or economic accounts written for a broad audience

Digital sources

More Informational TextsMore Literary Nonfiction

Close Reading

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Strategy: Instead of highlighting whilereading, get in the habit of using ‘thinking notes’.

* Author’s main point or central idea.

! Love it.

? Interesting. Possible class discussion point.

?? Confusing. Ask for clarification.

Writing

Arguments w/supporting claims

Informative/explanatory texts of increasing complexity

Production and distribution, including digital publishing

Short and extended research projects

Narratives of increasing complexity

Speaking and Listening

Flexible communication

Comprehension and collaboration

Presentation of knowledge and ideas

“…including but not limited to skills necessary for formal presentations…”

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Lana HallmarkFine Arts Specialist

Lana.hallmark@arkansas.gov

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