Common Core Mitchell Le Grand Sunny Vang Alyssa

Common Core Mitchell Le. Grand, Sunny Vang, Alyssa Perronne

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What is Common Core? (according to common core)

What IS Common Core State Standard? Common Core, at its core, is our academic standards for our education system. What do students have to know by the end of each grade level in math and language arts? Not only that, but what are the ways in which the students have to be taught to solve those problems. In that way, it is also a standard for teachers and districts to meet. The hope is that Common Core gets students college ready and makes them competitive in global communities.

History ● 2007 -State chiefs discuss developing common standards during CCSSO's Annual Policy Forum in Columbus, Ohio. ● 2008 -NGA, CCSSO, and Achieve release Benchmarking for Success: Ensuring U. S. Students Receive a World-Class Education. Which recommended that states upgrade their standards by adopting common core. ● 2009 -Discussion of creation of Common Core state standards initiative. Began developing the standards. First draft of the K-12 grade by grade college and career readiness standards is released. Standards are reviewed by committees and public. ● 2010 - Revision of K-12 standards. NGA and CCSSO release the final Common Core State Standards. ● 2011 - States and territories undergo their own processes for reviewing, adopting, and (in some states) ratifying the adoption of the Common Core State Standards. ● 2013 -As of December 2013, 45 states, the Department of Defense Education Activity, Washington D. C. , Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands and the U. S. Virgin Islands have adopted the CCSS in ELA/literacy and math. They are now in the process of implementing the standards locally.

History Cont. ● 2014 - As of June 2014, 43 states, the Department of Defense Education Activity, Washington D. C. , Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands and the U. S. Virgin Islands have adopted the CCSS in ELA/literacy and math. 2015 - As of August 2015, 42 states, the Department of Defense Education Activity, Washington D. C. , Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands and the U. S. Virgin Islands have adopted the CCSS in ELA/literacy and math. They are now in the process of implementing the standards locally.

Are you as smart as a 5 th grader? Reading and Writing Standards: Link opinion and reasons using words, phrases, and clauses Orient the reader by establishing a situation and introducing a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally. Read grade-level prose and poetry orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings. By the end of the year, read and comprehend informational texts, including history/social studies, science, and technical texts, at the high end of the Math Standards: Write simple expressions that record calculations with numbers, and interpret numerical expressions without evaluating them Generate two numerical patterns using two given rules. Identify apparent relationships between corresponding terms. Form ordered pairs consisting of corresponding terms from the two patterns, and graph the ordered pairs on a coordinate plane

POP QUIZ!

True or False, This Kid Got This Right on a Test? 5 X 3 = 15 5 + 5 = 15

FALSE 3+3+3=15

Now that you have been taught a little bit here is a worksheet of actual questions that have showed up on the common core standardized tests.

Q 1. Use number bonds to help skip count by 7 by making ten or adding the ones: 7 + 7 = ____ + ____ = _____

Q 1. Use number bonds to help skip count by 7 by making ten or adding the ones: 7 + 7 = __10__ + __4__ = __14___ (7+3) 4

Q 2. Juanita wants to give bags of stickers to all of her friends. She wants to give the same number of stickers to each friend. She’s not sure if she needs 4 bags or 6 bags of stickers. How many stickers could she buy so there are no stickers left over?

Literally Not Enough Information!

Q 3.

1 1 1 427 -316=111 100 100

Q 3.

Kim: 1 ⅔ Lu: 3 Mia: 2 ⅓ 3 -1⅔=1⅓

Q 5.

A But could it be something else?

Common Core Confusion http: //www. cc. com/videoclips/nemi 1 a/the-colbert-reportcommon-core-confusion

Debates Against Common Core Does not adequately address the real issues within education Overlook poverty What is being ignored is that test scores are heavily influenced by socioeconomic status To set a common standard overlook poverty as well as other factors that affect a student's academic achievement Costly Takes away funding for food security, healthcare, and access to books that also impact school performance As well as requiring new computer hardware and software, new textbooks, Concern for schools in high poverty area

Debates For Common Core // CC Goals Specify key knowledge and skills in a format that makes it clear what teachers and assessments need to focus on Raise the achievement bar comparable to other education systems in the world Create national consistency in expectations for learning Move towards engaging, challenging curriculum Develop larger cognitive structures by identifying key knowledge and skills

Issues What about those students who fails? Those who doesn’t meet the 50% cut-off? no one in charge of fixing issues that arises There are student data that are collected and shared? What kind of data are shared? Concerns are: A child’s name, e-mail, phone number, photo, grades, test scores, health conditions, disabilities and detailed disciplinary records States, local school boards and teachers will lose the authority to amend standards to meet their needs = local control absence of public participation, transparency, or educator participation while making the CCSS insist that children as young as 5 to 7 should be tracked to be college-and-career ready too young to have idealistic college/career goals

Global Test Scores: Math and Science

Global Standards: PISA The Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) is an international assessment that measures 15 -year-old students' reading, mathematics, and science literacy every three years. First conducted in 2000, the major domain of study rotates between mathematics, science, and reading in each cycle. PISA 2015 will assess students' mathematics, reading, and science literacy in more than 70 countries and educational jurisdictions.

Policy MN:

Minnesota Standards We have not adopted the Common Core math standards We have adopted the reading standards for English, which means it has also adopted for technical subjects like social sciences, and the arts. The standards were adopted to apply for federal grants through the Race To The Top program. (Which means we adopt standards and high stakes tests for grant money) Standards are being reevaluated.

Other states are now rejecting Common Core

Race to The Top: Through Race to the Top, the Department ask states to advance reforms around four specific areas: Adopting standards and assessments that prepare students to succeed in college and the workplace and to compete in the global economy; Building data systems that measure student growth and success, and inform teachers and principals about how they can improve instruction; Recruiting, developing, rewarding, and retaining effective teachers and principals, especially where they are needed most; and

Data New York ● one of the first states to roll out the new curriculum ● In one year of Common Core, 2012 - 2013 ○ ○ ● 3 rd Grade English Language Arts scores ■ 12 -point to 19 -point gap between black/white achievement ■ 14 -point to 25 -point gap between black/white achievement 3 rd Grade Math Scores ■ 8 -point gap to 14 -point gaps between black/white ■ 13 -point gap to 18 -point gaps between 3 rd grade Black students performing “Below Standard” rose from 15. 5% to 50%

2015 Test Scores test is equivalent to on the The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)

Parents’ Views on Common Core Standards in 2014 35% of parents view CCSS negatively 33% of parents view them positively increase in awareness has led to an increase in negativity

Discussion Q’s Will Common Core dumb down standards or raise them? "What's more important? " Linn asks. "To tell the truth to parents about where their kids are really performing? Or to continue to make them believe they're doing really well, only until they get into the workforce or they go to college and they're finding out they need to be put in a remedial English class? " - Dane Linn, a vice president of the Business Roundtable who oversees its Education and Workforce Committee. Which would you argue is “more important? ” We saw some of the downfalls of standardized testing, which are used to test common core material. Brainstorm ways to assess if students have reached the standard, without a standardized test. If a standardized test is necessary how can it be made better?