COMMON CORE AND PARCC
COMMON CORE AND PARCC
A Strong Foundation: The Common Core State Standards
• Fewer, clearer, higher • 21st Century Skills • Internationally benchmarked (skills and knowledge) • Evidence-based
GOAL To better prepare Illinois students for success in college and the workforce in a global economy.
46 States + DC Have Adopted the Common Core State Standards
*Minnesota adopted the CCSS in ELA/literacy only
Why are a Common Set of Standards Important?
COLLEGE AND CAREER READINESS
• They demonstrate independence. • They build strong content knowledge. • They respond to varying demands of audience, task, purpose discipline. • They comprehend as well as critique. • They value evidence. • They use technology and digital media strategically and capably. • They come to understand other perspectives and cultures.
ELA STANDARDS – KEY FEATURES
• READING – Text complexity and the growth of comprehension
– Literature – Informational Text
Click on picture to access ELA standards
– Foundational Skills
• WRITING – Text types, responding to reading and research • SPEAKING AND LISTENING– Flexible communication and collaboration
• LANGUAGE – Conventions, effective use and vocabulary
HOW YOU CAN HELP YOUR CHILD IN ELA/LITERACY AT HOME • Ask your child specific questions about what they read. • Encourage children to read, then write and speak about, nonfiction text such as newspapers, magazines, and biographies. • Encourage children to research topics of interest and read series that relate to a central topic. • Have your child follow step by step instructions or a set of directions in order to accomplish a task, such as building a sandcastle or operating a game.
MATH-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 make use of structure • Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.
STANDARDS FOR MATHEMATICAL CONTENT
STANDARDS DEFINE WHAT STUDENTS SHOULD UNDERSTAND AND BE ABLE TO DO Domain: Operations and Algebraic Thinking Click to access standards Standards: • Use the four operations with whole numbers to solve problems • Gain familiarity with factors and multiples Cluster – Find all factor pairs for a whole number in the range of 1 – 100. Recognize that a whole number is a multiple of each of its factors. Determine whether a given whole number in the range 1 – 100 is a multiple of a given one-digit number. Determine whether a given whole number in the range 1 – 100 is prime or composite. • Generate and analyze patterns
HOW YOU CAN HELP YOUR CHILD IN MATHEMATICS AT HOME • Help children practice their addition, subtraction, multiplication and division facts. • Encourage children not to give up while solving problems, to build stamina and develop their critical thinking skills. Don’t give them the answers - ask them to think of different ways they can solve problems. • Have children illustrate the math they were thinking in their head and discuss it out loud. • Have children apply their math knowledge to a real-world scenario at home, such as doubling a recipe or calculating the area of a room.
What’s Next? Common Assessments
• Common Core State Standards are critical, but it is just the first step • Common assessments aligned to the Common Core will help ensure the new standards truly reach every classroom
Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) • • • • • • •
Arkansas Colorado District of Columbia Illinois Louisiana Maryland Massachusetts
• • • • • •
Mississippi New Jersey New Mexico New York Ohio Rhode Island
The PARCC Goals
1. Create high-quality assessments 2. Build a pathway to college and career readiness for all students 3. Support educators in the classroom 4. Develop 21st century, technology-based assessments 5. Advance accountability at all levels 6. Build an assessment that is sustainable and affordable
PARCC Assessments ELA/Literacy and Mathematics, Grades 3–11
Beginning of School Year
End of School Year Flexible administration
Diagnostic Assessment
Mid-Year Assessment
Performance -Based Assessment
End-of-Year Assessment
Speaking and Listening Assessment
Key: Optional
Required
PARCC ASSESSMENT
Visit: parcconline.org
PERFORMANCE-BASED ASSESSMENT
• ELA/LITERACY – Analyze literature and a narrative writing task. – Students will read texts and write several pieces to demonstrate they can read and understand sufficiently complex texts independently – Write effectively when using and analyzing sources – Build and communicate knowledge by integrating, comparing and synthesizing ideas.
• MATH – Solve problems involving the key knowledge and skills for their grade level (as identified by the CCSS) – express mathematical reasoning – Construct a mathematical argument – Apply concepts to solve model real-world problems.
END OF YEAR ASSESSMENT
• Taken at the end of the year. • Combined with Performance-Based Assessment results • Students demonstrate skills and knowledge through computer-based, machine-scorable questions.
Texts Worth Reading Problems Worth Solving Tests Worth Taking What We Know: • Expectations should be higher for our educational system to prepare students for their world of work • Standards and Assessments must align • Data is needed to inform teaching and learning • Technology is a key component in the future of effective education • Instruction must include 21st century skills • Educators, students, parents, community members, businesses are essential partners in education
Resources
• Partnership for Assessment of College and Career Readiness – http://parcconline.org • Council of the Great City Schools - http://cgcs.org/site/ • Illinois State Board of Education - www.isbe.net
A Strong Foundation: The Common Core State Standards
• Fewer, clearer, higher • 21st Century Skills • Internationally benchmarked (skills and knowledge) • Evidence-based
GOAL To better prepare Illinois students for success in college and the workforce in a global economy.
46 States + DC Have Adopted the Common Core State Standards
*Minnesota adopted the CCSS in ELA/literacy only
Why are a Common Set of Standards Important?
COLLEGE AND CAREER READINESS
• They demonstrate independence. • They build strong content knowledge. • They respond to varying demands of audience, task, purpose discipline. • They comprehend as well as critique. • They value evidence. • They use technology and digital media strategically and capably. • They come to understand other perspectives and cultures.
ELA STANDARDS – KEY FEATURES
• READING – Text complexity and the growth of comprehension
– Literature – Informational Text
Click on picture to access ELA standards
– Foundational Skills
• WRITING – Text types, responding to reading and research • SPEAKING AND LISTENING– Flexible communication and collaboration
• LANGUAGE – Conventions, effective use and vocabulary
HOW YOU CAN HELP YOUR CHILD IN ELA/LITERACY AT HOME • Ask your child specific questions about what they read. • Encourage children to read, then write and speak about, nonfiction text such as newspapers, magazines, and biographies. • Encourage children to research topics of interest and read series that relate to a central topic. • Have your child follow step by step instructions or a set of directions in order to accomplish a task, such as building a sandcastle or operating a game.
MATH-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 make use of structure • Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.
STANDARDS FOR MATHEMATICAL CONTENT
STANDARDS DEFINE WHAT STUDENTS SHOULD UNDERSTAND AND BE ABLE TO DO Domain: Operations and Algebraic Thinking Click to access standards Standards: • Use the four operations with whole numbers to solve problems • Gain familiarity with factors and multiples Cluster – Find all factor pairs for a whole number in the range of 1 – 100. Recognize that a whole number is a multiple of each of its factors. Determine whether a given whole number in the range 1 – 100 is a multiple of a given one-digit number. Determine whether a given whole number in the range 1 – 100 is prime or composite. • Generate and analyze patterns
HOW YOU CAN HELP YOUR CHILD IN MATHEMATICS AT HOME • Help children practice their addition, subtraction, multiplication and division facts. • Encourage children not to give up while solving problems, to build stamina and develop their critical thinking skills. Don’t give them the answers - ask them to think of different ways they can solve problems. • Have children illustrate the math they were thinking in their head and discuss it out loud. • Have children apply their math knowledge to a real-world scenario at home, such as doubling a recipe or calculating the area of a room.
What’s Next? Common Assessments
• Common Core State Standards are critical, but it is just the first step • Common assessments aligned to the Common Core will help ensure the new standards truly reach every classroom
Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) • • • • • • •
Arkansas Colorado District of Columbia Illinois Louisiana Maryland Massachusetts
• • • • • •
Mississippi New Jersey New Mexico New York Ohio Rhode Island
The PARCC Goals
1. Create high-quality assessments 2. Build a pathway to college and career readiness for all students 3. Support educators in the classroom 4. Develop 21st century, technology-based assessments 5. Advance accountability at all levels 6. Build an assessment that is sustainable and affordable
PARCC Assessments ELA/Literacy and Mathematics, Grades 3–11
Beginning of School Year
End of School Year Flexible administration
Diagnostic Assessment
Mid-Year Assessment
Performance -Based Assessment
End-of-Year Assessment
Speaking and Listening Assessment
Key: Optional
Required
PARCC ASSESSMENT
Visit: parcconline.org
PERFORMANCE-BASED ASSESSMENT
• ELA/LITERACY – Analyze literature and a narrative writing task. – Students will read texts and write several pieces to demonstrate they can read and understand sufficiently complex texts independently – Write effectively when using and analyzing sources – Build and communicate knowledge by integrating, comparing and synthesizing ideas.
• MATH – Solve problems involving the key knowledge and skills for their grade level (as identified by the CCSS) – express mathematical reasoning – Construct a mathematical argument – Apply concepts to solve model real-world problems.
END OF YEAR ASSESSMENT
• Taken at the end of the year. • Combined with Performance-Based Assessment results • Students demonstrate skills and knowledge through computer-based, machine-scorable questions.
Texts Worth Reading Problems Worth Solving Tests Worth Taking What We Know: • Expectations should be higher for our educational system to prepare students for their world of work • Standards and Assessments must align • Data is needed to inform teaching and learning • Technology is a key component in the future of effective education • Instruction must include 21st century skills • Educators, students, parents, community members, businesses are essential partners in education
Resources
• Partnership for Assessment of College and Career Readiness – http://parcconline.org • Council of the Great City Schools - http://cgcs.org/site/ • Illinois State Board of Education - www.isbe.net
