Common Core State Standards

OrCollege and Career

State Standards

CCSS

nutsnuts

developed by the Council of Chief State School

Officers and

the National Governors Association

state-based initiative focusing on curricula in English Language Arts and Mathematics

A Little History…(this is NOT a Federal Government Thing!)

45 states have adopted CCSS

Each participating state is now responsible for designing and implementing specific curriculum around CCSS.

A Bit More…

Thinking about the Curriculum...

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Common Core State Standards

Thinking about the Curriculum...

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Knowledge

Course Common Core State Standards

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Knowledge/CCSS

Course Unit

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UnitALL

MOST

SOME

Generalization & Problem Solving

Content Manipulation

Content: Facts, Concepts, Definitions, Propositions

Common Core Shifts for English Language

Arts/Literacy

1. Building knowledge through content-rich nonfiction

2. Reading, writing and speaking grounded in evidence from text, both literary and informational

3. Regular practice with complex text and its academic language

Common Core Shifts for Mathematics

1. Focus strongly where the Standards focus

2. Coherence: think across grades, and link to major topics* within grades

3. Rigor: in major topics* pursue: − conceptual understanding, − procedural skill and fluency, and − application with equal intensity

*Focus Areas in Support of Rich Instruction and Expectations of Fluency and Conceptual Understanding K–2 Addition and subtraction—concepts, skills, and problem solving, and place value 3–5 Multiplication and division of whole numbers and fractions – concepts, skills and problem solving 6 Ratios and proportional reasoning; early expressions and equations 7 Ratios and proportional reasoning; arithmetic of rational numbers 8 Linear algebra and linear functions

Links to SC CCSS

http://ed.sc.gov/agency/programs-services/190/

http://ed.sc.gov/agency/programs-services/190/ccss-support/index.cfm

A Good Resource…

http://www.aspendrl.org/portal/browse/DocumentDetail?documentId=1882&download