CONVERTING YOUR CURRICULUM TO COMMON CORE

Talia Arbit: talia@edcite.com, @taliaarbitBrian McIntosh: brian@edcite.com

Agenda Part I

Why This Session? Converting Your Assessments to

Common Core Through the Looking Glass (How

Do CC Questions Compare to Others?)

Assessment Breakdown Quick Tips

Questions??

Common Core is a set of standards not a set curriculum

Don’t Panic! Good Teaching

= Common Core Teaching

Why This Session?

Converting Your Assessments

To Common Core

7th Grade ELA

CST

7th Grade ELA

SmarterBalanced

English - GRE

GRE

11TH Grade Math

CST

11TH Grade Math

Smarter Balanced

Math - GRE

GRE

Common Core questions are a lot more rigorous: Questions require higher-level thought than simple recall

Questions are centered around understanding and applying

Even multiple choice questions require more analysis

Key Takeaways

Rearrange

Text

Common Core Style Questions

Group By

DraggingDrag and Drop

Free

Response

Select Text

Graphing

Multiple Choice

Graphing

Drag and Drop

Group By Dragging

Rearrange Text

Select Text

Question Breakdown- Math

Created by Edcite (from SmarterBalanced pilot test)

Question Breakdown- ELA

Created by Edcite (from SmarterBalanced pilot test)

Incorporate more opportunities for students to explain their reasoning

Make multiple choice questions more rigorous by making them multi-select

Use more visuals/graphs/multimedia (videos)

Quick Tips

? Questions ?

Converting Your Lesson Plans

To Common Core

Agenda Part II

Converting Your Lesson Plan to Common Core: Performance Tasks Inquiry-Based Learning Project-Based Learning Quick Tips

Overview of Edcite Questions??

Performance Tasks Key Characteristics:

Multi-stage assessment Directed by a specific goal or outcome Require students to use a wide range of skills and

knowledge to complete Help students make connection between the content

they’re learning and the real world Moves to deeper depths of knowledge (up Bloom’s)

Performance Tasks - Sources

1. SmarterBalanced: performance tasks for every grade)

2. New York City Department of Education - http://schools.nyc.gov/academics/commoncorelibrary/tasksunitsstudentwork/default.htm

3. Edcite: - Math: Exponential Growth and Decayedcite.com/13rqff- Science: The Biology of Vaccines: edcite.com/1mhn35

Inquiry-Based Learning

Key Characteristics: Starts by posing

questions, problems or scenarios– rather than simply presenting facts or portraying a smooth path to knowledge

Resources: (1) Springboard Curriculum (2) Galileo Learning (3) Smithsonian Institute

Inquiry-Based Learning - Example

• What are some functions that all cells have?

Group Thoughts: Class Thoughts: • Microscope observations:

1. What organism are you observing?

2. What are some features you have discovered about your organism?

3. What functions do you think these features serve?

Project-Based Learning

Key Characteristics: Inquiry based learning at the unit level. Starts with a guiding question that students

answer through a project Links: www.bie.org

Project-Based Learning

Give students differentiated texts as a warm-up

Have students practice answering questions that require deepening depths of knowledge.

Resources: (1) Newsela (2) NYTimes

Quick Tips - ELA

Choose a graph that’s interesting to students/about real world problems and have them analyze it as a warm-up

Give students a graph with no labels or titles and ask them to come up with labels for the axes and stories to explain what they see in the graph

Quick Tips - Math

Number of hungry people in the world

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