Regional Educators Advancing College, Career, and Citizen Readiness Higher Toolkit 2: Aligning Curriculum with Common Core State Standards
GOALS • Understand the shift in what proficiency means • Understand alignment between standards/domains, assessment, and facilitation of learning • Understand alignment includes literacy across all content areas 2
CURRICULUM ALIGNMENT • What does curriculum alignment mean? • What are its components? 3
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THE CONNECTION 6
SHIFTS IN PROFICIENCY 1. Each vertex of the triangle -- standard/domain, assessment, and facilitation of learning-- represents a critical component of curriculum alignment. 2. Each level of the spiral staircase is essential to moving students from a basic knowledge level to a progressive level necessary for students to prepare for career, college, and citizenship. 3. Each teacher at each grade level plays a vital role in preparing students for career, college, and citizenship. 7
ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS • How do standards/domains, assessment, and facilitation of learning drive curriculum alignment? • How does twelfth grade relate to kindergarten and all other levels? • How does learning progress from kindergarten to twelfth in preparation for college, career and citizenship? 8
EFFECTIVE TRANSITIONS • Alignment ensures when entering each grade, students are prepared for the learning opportunities at that level. • Effective transitions require collaborative alignment. • Teachers know expectation of grade level preceding and succeeding own grade level to facilitate learning. 9
Cross Country Road Trip Conversation: 1. Do they have to stop for gas? Explain your reasoning. 2. Suppose they decide to stop for 30 minutes. At what time will they reach Los Angeles? 10
An amusement park has games, rides, and shows. The total number of games, rides, and shows is 70. There are 34 rides. There are two times as many games as shows. How many games are there? How many shows are there? Use numbers, words, or drawings to show how you got your answer. If you need more room for your work, use the space below. Did you use the calculator on this question? 11
ALIGNMENT IN MATHEMATICS • Alignment can help facilitate understanding of the connections between content, processes, and literacy that are interwoven in meaningful tasks students encounter. • Alignment can provide an opportunity to explore where fluency in mathematics is required and used to facilitate problem solving to demonstrate a higher level of proficiency. 12
ALIGNMENT IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS • Alignment increases knowledge base level upon level • Alignment requires understanding of increased complexity levels in fiction and informative text • The alignment of English Language Arts provides opportunities for other content area connections 13
ORANGES I turned to the candies Tiered like bleachers, The first time I walked And asked what she wanted --- With a girl, I was twelve, Light in her eyes, a smile Cold, and weighted down Starting at the corners With two oranges in my jacket. Of her mouth. I fingered A nickel in my pocket, December. Frost cracking And when she lifted a chocolate Beneath my steps, my breath That cost a dime, Before me, then gone, I didn't say anything. As I walked toward I took the nickel from Her house, the one whose My pocket, then an orange, Porch light burned yellow And set them quietly on Night and day, in any weather. The counter. When I looked up, A dog barked at me, until The lady's eyes met mine, And held them, knowing She came out pulling Very well what I was all about At her gloves, face bright Outside, a few cars hissing past, with rouge. I smiled, Fog hanging like old Touched her shoulder, and led Coats between the trees. Her down the street, across I took my girl's hand A used-car lot and a line In mine for two blocks, Of newly planted trees, Then released it to let Until we were breathing Her unwrap the chocolate. Before a drugstore. We I peeled my orange That was so bright against Entered, the tiny bell The gray of December Bringing a saleslady That, from some distance, Down a narrow aisle of goods. Someone might have thought I was making a fire in my hands.
NAEP • Write down in • 58% of Oklahoma’s 8 th your own words some of the grade students images from the scored satisfactory poems that linger on this question. in your mind. 15
O Captain! My Captain! O CAPTAIN! my Captain! our O Captain! my Captain! rise up and fearful trip is done; hear the bells; Rise up--for you the flag is flung-- The ship has weather'd every for you the bugle trills; 10 rack, the prize we sought is won; For you bouquets and ribbon'd The port is near, the bells I hear, wreaths--for you the shores a- the people all exulting, crowding; For you they call, the swaying While follow eyes the steady keel, mass, their eager faces turning; the vessel grim and daring: Here Captain! dear father! But O heart! heart! heart! This arm beneath your head; O the bleeding drops of red, It is some dream that on the deck, Where on the deck my Captain You've fallen cold and dead. lies, Fallen cold and dead.
Analyze Walt Whitman’s My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still; “O Captain, My Captain!” My father does not feel my arm, he to uncover the poem’s has no pulse nor will; analogies and allusions . The ship is anchor'd safe and sound, its voyage closed and done; Then analyze the impact From fearful trip, the victor ship, of specific words choices comes in with object won; 20 by Whitman, such as rack Exult, O shores, and ring, O bells! But I, with mournful tread, and grim , and determine Walk the deck my Captain lies, how they contribute to Fallen cold and dead. the overall meaning and tone of the poem. Walt Whitman 17
Literacy in Science • CCSS for Literacy in Science: • Assignment: • 1. Write arguments focused on discipline- • Students will create a webpage specific content. using Wikispaces, Weebly, or • 6. Use technology to produce, publish, GoogleSites which contains a pro and update individual and/or shared or con argument about one of the writing - displaying information in a following topics: flexible and dynamic way. • Fracking for Natural Gas • 7. Conduct a sustained research project. • Nuclear Energy • 8. Gather relevant information from • Stem-cell Harvesting from multiple relevant sources. Assess the Aborted Embryos usefulness of each source and integrate • information into the text to maintain the Climate Change flow of ideas. • Returning a Manned Spacecraft • 9. Draw evidence from infomational texts to the Moon. to support analysis and research. 18
• Option 2 - Once the essay is written • Students will research both print (webpage is created) students will and electronic sourced articles read 3 of their classmates essays, to form an argumentative essay, choose an opposing viewpoint, and citing specific evidence from comment on the page citing their their research. The webpage own evidence to the contrary. must include appropriate citations (APA?) and references. • The essay/webpage should be organized in such a way the • Option 1 - Once the essay is establishes clear evidence to support the claim. It should also entertain written (webpage is created) opposing viewpoints with counter- students will read 3 of their evidence. The style should be formal classmates essays and and maintain an objective tone, using comment on them to increase norms and conventions of the the strength of the argument. discipline in which they are writing. The information used in the There should be a concluding research should be accessible statement or section that supports for everyone to read. the argument 19
Literacy in Social Studies We have before us many, I say to the House as I said many months of struggle to ministers who have and suffering. joined this government, I have nothing to offer but You ask, what is our blood, toil, tears, and policy? I say it is to wage sweat. We have before us war by land, sea, and air. an ordeal of the most War with all our might and grievous kind. with all the strength God has given us, and to wage 20
War against a monstrous For without victory there is tyranny never surpassed in no survival. the dark and lamentable I take up my task in catalogue of human crime. buoyancy and hope. I feel That is our policy. sure that our cause will not You ask, what is our aim? I be suffered to fail among can answer in one word. It men. I feel entitled at this is victory. Victory at all juncture, at this time, to costs-- Victory in spite of all claim the aid of all and to terrors- say, “Come then, let us go forward together with our Victory, however long and united strength.” hard the road may be, 21
PARCC Frameworks PARCC has now issued the ELA and Math frameworks – they can be obtained by going to: http://www.parcconline.org/parcc- content-frameworks 22
Frameworks - ELA 2 nd Grade: Participate in 3 rd Grade: Conduct short shared research and research projects that writing projects (e.g., build knowledge about read a number of books a topic. on a single topic to produce a report; record science observations. 23
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