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Essential Skills (Required for DTCs, Recommended for STCs)

Essential Skills (Required for DTCs, Recommended for STCs). Essential Skills. Objectives Understand Essential Skills Graduation Requirement Understand Essential Skills Data Resources Available for Essential Skills. Essential Skills. Read and comprehend a variety of text

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Essential Skills (Required for DTCs, Recommended for STCs)

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  1. Essential Skills(Required for DTCs, Recommended for STCs)

  2. Essential Skills Objectives • Understand Essential Skills Graduation Requirement • Understand Essential Skills Data • Resources Available for Essential Skills

  3. Essential Skills Read and comprehend a variety of text Writeclearly and accurately Apply mathematics in a variety of settings Listen actively and speak clearly and coherently Think critically and analytically Use technology to learn, live, and work Demonstrate civic and community engagement Demonstrate global literacy Demonstrate personal management and teamwork skills Essential Skills are outcomes of educational experiences; they are what students should be able to do at the end of high school. They are embedded in content standards.

  4. GraduationRequirementsbyCohort The first three Essential Skills have been phased in as graduation requirements, based on when a student is first enrolled in grade 9 (cohort year).

  5. Categories of Assessments Approved for Essential Skills Graduation Requirement

  6. 1stCategory: Statewide AssessmentAssessment Option and Achievement Standards • Any increase in rigor requires adequate notice: before March 1st of the cohort’s 8th grade year.

  7. 2ndCategory: Other AssessmentsAssessment Options and Achievement Standards *Based on the composite score derived from both the selected response and direct-writing portions of the test. The SAT refers to this as the Writing section of the SAT . The ACT refers to this as the combined English/Writing test.

  8. 3rdCategory: Work SamplesAssessment Options and Achievement Standards

  9. 3rdCategory: Work SamplesGuidelines All work samples must be scored with the official scoring guides. Work samples must meet the level of rigor required on the OAKS assessment. Work samples provide an optional means to demonstrate proficiency not an easier means.

  10. School-Level Essential School Data Reported • Essential Skills graduation requirements are fields in the Cumulative ADM data collection. • ODE has identified several process improvements to increase data quality. • Essential Skills reports are published January 30th each year.

  11. School-Level Essential School Data Reported For each school, what % of students used each of the assessment categories to meet the graduation requirement.

  12. School-Level Essential School Data Reported For each school, for students who met the graduation requirement with Work Samples, what were % of students were in each OAKS achievement level?

  13. Promising Practices Essential Skills • Incorporate the scoring guides into instructional practices to provide opportunities for feedback on some or all of the skills. • Incorporate practice work samples into your instructional practices. • Share work sample prompts that you have developed with otherdistricts. • Find and administer work sample prompts that other districts have developed. • Develop a work sample scoring plan that allows for distributed workload.

  14. Essential Skills In a Nutshell Required Essential Skills • Reading: 2008-2009 cohort (Class of 2012) • Reading & Writing: 2009-2010 cohort (Class of 2013) • Reading, Writing & Math: 2010-2011 cohort (Class of 2014) Approved Methods of Assessment • OAKS • Other Approved Standardized Tests • Work Samples

  15. Essential Skills Resourceshttp://www.ode.state.or.us/search/page/?id=2042

  16. Acorns for Storage Essential Skills • Which courses are responsible for Essential Skills Assessment in our school? • What is our procedure for keeping track of student progress toward demonstrating each required Essential Skill? • How can elementary and middle schools prepare students for the Essential Skills?

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