Introduction to the Common Core Learning Standards
This introduction to the Common Core Learning Standards emphasizes the importance of equipping students for college and career success. It outlines how state-led standards, supported by expert organizations, provide academically rigorous and internationally benchmarked content. Key components include building effective assessment data systems, recruiting and retaining proficient educators, and addressing the challenges of low-achieving schools. This session will explore the principles of the Common Core Standards, focusing on their impact on literacy and the required shifts in teaching practices.
Introduction to the Common Core Learning Standards
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Introduction to the Common Core Learning Standards November 8, 2011
Highly Effective School Leaders Teacher Evaluation Statewide Standards-based Curriculum Assessment Data Highly Effective Teachers College and Career Ready Students Animating the Reform AgendaInvesting in human capital, supporting with critical tools • Adopting internationally-benchmarked standards and assessments that prepare students for success in college and the workplace • Building instructional data systems that measure student success and inform teachers and principals how they can improve their practice • Recruiting, developing, retaining, and rewarding effective teachers and principals • Turning around the lowest-achieving schools
WHAT ARE THE COMMON CORE STANDARDS? • State led – coordinated by NGA and CCSSO • Rigorous content and application of knowledge through high-order skills • Internationally benchmarked • Based on evidence and research • Focused on college and career readiness
COLLEGE and CAREER READINESS (CCR) Read College and Career Ready Expectations handout from Achieve Discuss: • What does it mean to be college ready? • What does it mean to be career ready? • Why is there a new emphasis on college and career readiness?
COLLEGE and CAREER READINESS (CCR) • Watch video Discuss: • What will the Common Core Standards impact? • What are the guiding principles of the Common Core Standards? • What are the 6 shifts that are discussed in the video?
COLLEGE and CAREER READINESS (CCR) • The Common Core Standards are premised on the idea that students need to be college and career ready • We are going to spend the rest of the morning/afternoon discussing the Common Core Standards for literacy