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Transition to PA Common Core Evaluating Existing Curriculum

Transition to PA Common Core Evaluating Existing Curriculum. Text Complexity. PA Common Core. Writing. Standards Overview. Evaluating Curriculum. Toolbox. Please Do the Following:. Your School District/Organization. Your Name. Connect to the Internet

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Transition to PA Common Core Evaluating Existing Curriculum

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  1. Transition to PA Common Core Evaluating Existing Curriculum

  2. Text Complexity PA Common Core Writing Standards Overview Evaluating Curriculum Toolbox

  3. Please Do the Following: Your School District/Organization Your Name • Connect to the Internet • Navigate to: http://www.pdesas.org • If a registered user, sign-in. • If not a registered user, join now. • Place your name and school district/organization on your name tent

  4. Essential Questions • What are essential understandings necessary in order to revise and align curriculum? • How are the PA CC Standards organized? • How do I assess the rigor of my curriculum? • What must a plan for revision include?

  5. PA Common Core Standards PA Common Core Standards provide a consistent, clear understanding of what students are expected to learn so teachers and parents know what they to do to help them. The standards are designed to be robust and relevant to the real world, reflecting the knowledge and skills that our young people need for success in college and careers. (www.corestandards.org)

  6. Are you prepared? • A Pause… • PDE announced a one-year pause in the development and implementation of Keystone Exams. • Time for districts to make certain that local curriculum is fully aligned with the Common Core Standards and the content assessed by Keystones • Time for professional development

  7. Looking Back

  8. The Present

  9. The Present Standard Statement College and Career Anchor Standards Reference Eligible Content

  10. How Does Your Curriculum Stack Up?

  11. What is RIGOR? RIGOR is more than a 5-letter word. What is RIGOR?

  12. What is RIGOR? • Rigor • more than what you teach and the standards you cover • how you teach and how students show you they understand • creating an environment in which each student is expected to learn at high levels • supporting each student so he or she can learn at high levels, and demonstrates learning at high levels. • (Blackburn, 2008)

  13. How Deep Is the Knowledge?

  14. Confucius says…. DOK

  15. How Does Your Curriculum Stack Up?

  16. Standards and Curriculum Curriculum refers to the specific blueprint for learning and is derived from content and performance standards. Wiggins and McTighe

  17. Assessment SUMMATIVE FORMATIVE

  18. Strong Curriculum Yields Results Pinwheel Discussion: Text in Conversation Grades 9 - 12 Literacy Culture Assessment, Instruction Digital Literacy Rigor Analyzing Texts: “Text Talk Time” Grade 5 LocalCurriculum Vocabulary

  19. Dissecting and Conversing

  20. Transition: Next Steps

  21. Reflections

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