Bauder Elementary School With help from Pamela T. Moore

Associate Superintendent, Teaching and Learning ServicesPinellas County Schools

The Florida Standards:

What Every Parent Should Know

• What are the Florida Standards?

• What does this mean for instruction and testing?

• How can you support your child in this journey?

• Where can you find additional information?

Intended Outcomes:

Low Levels of Rigor• NGSSS featured large amounts of

knowledge and recall learning targets• Under-developing critical thinking

abilities• Disadvantaged in college and the

workplace

Why did we need a change in Florida’s Standards?

Lack of Clarity• “Write for a variety of purposes.”• “Respond to variety of literary/informational

texts.”• “Competently use money.”• Were these standards clear to teachers,

students, and parents?

Why did we need a change?

Inconsistencies• Different districts set different learning

targets • Different classrooms learning different topics• We must expect high achievement from all

students in all classrooms• Florida chose to include more standards than

those outlined in Common Core

Why did we need a change?

• Increased complexity of texts• Focus on foundational math skills and application in

novel, real-world situations• A return to depth as opposed to breadth• Increased focus on justifying and presenting results

and methods• Critical reading and writing infused across all

curricular areas• Re-ordering of math content to reflect research-

based path to college and career readiness

How are Florida Standards different?

Preparation:

The Florida Standards will prepare students for both college

and the workplace and emphasizes higher-order skills

instead of knowledge and recall.

Benefits of Florida Standards

Competition:

The Florida Standards have been influenced by internationally-

benchmarked standards, ensuring that our students are prepared to be competitive in the global job

market.

Benefits of Florida Standards

Clarity:

The standards are focused, coherent, and clear. Everyone knows what is expected of our

students.

Benefits of Florida Standards

Collaboration:

Florida Standards will be a foundation for teachers across districts to work together from the same blueprints. This will facilitate the sharing of best

practices.

Benefits of Florida Standards

•English/Language Arts (ELA) – where Reading resides•Mathematics •Science & S. Studies (still using NGSSS)

What are the standards?

FCAT v. FSA

Writing – March 3rd (grades 4 & 5)FCAT 2.0 PromptEveryone has experiences that they can’t forget.

Think about an experience you have had that you can’t forget.

Now write to tell what happened in the experience that you can’t forget.

•60 minutes to

– Read the prompt

– Plan the essay

– Draft, Revise, and Edit the essay

FSA PromptThe passages are discussing whether or not student should be required to play an instrument at school. Write an essay in which you give your opinion about requiring every student to learn to play a musical instrument. Use information from the sources in your essay.

•90 minutes (30 extra if needed)– Read the prompt

– Read 2 – 4 passages (maximum of 1400 words total)

– Take notes and synthesize all passages

– Plan essay

– Draft, Revise, and Edit the essay

1) PK – 5: Balancing Informational Text and Literature

2) Staircase of Complexity

3) Text-based Answers

4) Writing from Multiple Sources

5) Academic Vocabulary

Shifts in English Language Arts

• Attention to Text Complexity

• Emphasis on Student Tasks (especially writing)

• Responsibility for Reading & Writing Instruction

- Every Teacher, Every Subject, Every Day!

Instructional CHANGES

ELA (Reading)FCAT 2.0 Sample Question FSA Sample Question

With which two sentences would the author agree?

a. Learning is exciting no matter how you do it.

b. All students should go to school on the Internet.

c. Thousands of students in the same class are too many.

d. Online classrooms are a good alternative to regular ones.

e. Students in the same class should live close to each other.

Why does Miss. Bilberry want to move?

a. She is lonely in the yellow pale house.

b. She is looking for an exciting adventure.

c. She wants more space for her vegetable garden.

d. She thinks she will be more content somewhere else

ELA (Reading)FCAT 2.0 Sample Question FSA Sample Question

What is the relationship between paragraphs 2 and 3 in the passage?

a. Comparison

b. Introduction

c. Cause and effect

d. Question and answer

At the end of the passage, what bothers Miss. Bilberry?

a. She believes the new house is not nice.

b. She wonders why her new home is so familiar.

c. She feels she should have kept going to another house.

d. She thinks her cat really does not like his new home.

ELA (Reading)FCAT 2.0 Sample Question FSA Sample Question

What is the main idea of paragraph 4?

Type your answer in the space provided.

Read this sentence from the passage. He liked their quiet life in the pale yellow house with its broad-leaved tree, its two swaying palms, and its cool veranda.

What mood does the author create by using the words swaying palms?

a. Grateful

b. Peaceful

c. Sad

d. Weary

Fill in the circle before the two sentences that show how online classrooms and regular classrooms are alike.

A. Today, students who live far away from their teacher have classes on the Internet. B. In some online classrooms, a classroom full of kids can use a special computer program at the same time as the teacher. C. The students can live in one country, and the teacher can be located in a different country. D. Still, it’s just like a classroom at your school. E. The teacher can teach the kids. F. The kids can ask questions. G. Everyone can see and hear everything that’s being said as it happens.

ELA (Reading)FSA Sample Question

Part A How has learning from distant places changed over time?

a. Students can ask questions and get answers faster.

b. Students can hear their teacher during the same class time.

c. Students use the mail to receive and send work.

d. Students live far apart from their classmates.

Part B Select one sentence that supports the answer in part A.

a. “the students can live in one country, and the teacher can be located in a different country”

b. “All the children could hear their teacher at the same time, but they were hundreds of miles apart”

c. “they got their lessons in the mail, did their homework, and mailed it back to the teacher”

d. “everyone can see and hear everything that’s being said as it happens”

e. “Sometimes, they don’t have to have a class where everyone is together all at once”

ELA (Reading)

English Language Arts - Reading

3rd grade 4th grade 5th grade

March 24 - 25Paper/Pencil

March 24 - 25Paper/pencil(this year only)

April 13 – 21Computer

2 days-80 minutes each day

56 – 60 items total over the 2 days

Standards for Mathematical CONTENT (Familiar)

• Define what students should know and be able to do (The “What”)

Standards for Mathematical PRACTICE (New and Different)

• Describe ways in which the mathematical content standards should be approached (The “How”)

Mathematics

• Promote deep student discussion on the content

• Emphasis on Student Tasks (performance-tasks)

• Include PRACTICE Standards at all grade levels

• Expanded use of technology

Instructional CHANGES in Math

• 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.

Mathematical Practice Standards

MathFCAT 2.0 Sample Question FSA Sample Question

A bakery uses 48 pound of flour each day. It orders flour every 28 days.

Create an equation that shows how many pounds of flour the bakery needs to order every 28 days.

More Comparison Sample QuestionsFCAT 2.0

Select an expression that has the same value as 30 ÷ 10.

A.2

B.3

C.40

D.300

FSA

Select all the expressions that have the same value as 30 ÷ 10.

a.1 x 3b.10 ÷ 30c.30 x 10d.30 ÷ 10 ÷ 1e.30 ÷ (2 ÷ 5)f.(30 ÷ 2) ÷ 5

This is how 5th grade will see it…

More FSA Comparison QuestionsFCAT 2.0

What is the value of this expression

d ÷ 3 = 12 R2

a.38b.36c.4d.6

FSA

Consider the equation

d ÷ 3 = 12 remainder 2.

Part A. What is the dividend, d?

Part B. What would the dividend, d, be if there was no remainder?

This is how 5th grade could see it…

This is how 5th grade could see it…

Math3rd grade 4th grade 5th grade

April 7 - 8Paper/Pencil

April 7 - 8Paper/pencil(this year only)

April 22 - 30Computer

2 days-80 minutes each day

56 – 60 items total over the 2 days

Science - NGSSS5th grade

Paper/Pencil

2 days-80 minutes each day

60 - 66 items total over the 2 days

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