Converting Your Curriculum to the Common Core - Talia Arbit, EdCite
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CONVERTING YOUR CURRICULUM TO COMMON CORE
Talia Arbit: [email protected], @taliaarbitBrian McIntosh: [email protected]
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
Edcite
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more? Type in your name,
grade level and subject and we will send you
some Common Core
assignments!
YAY!
? Questions ?