1. Getting Started With
Common Core
Laura Chambless
St. Clair County RESA
www.protopage.com/lchambless

2. Common Core State
Standards (CCSS)
Value Line
How well do you know the Math
Common Core State Standards
(CCSS)?
0 Rate yourself 0-10 10
I could be up
I know nothing
presenting
* Find your partner for the afternoon!

3. Agenda
1. Smart Balanced Assessment
Consortium (SBAC)
2. Common Core State Standards
(CCSS)
3. CCSS Grade Level Break Out
4. Mathematical Practices (MP)
5. Questions/Resources/Up Coming
PDs

4. Learning Target
I can read, use, and understand
the level in which I need to
teach the Common Core State
Standards.

5. Start With The End In Mind

6. Assessment
The SMARTER Balanced
Assessment Consortium
http://www.smarterbalanced.org

7. 4th Grade Sample
Think/Pair/Share
What have you heard or know
about the Smarter Balanced
Test/Math Common Core test?

8. Test Items Types
SR = selected-response item
CR = constructed-response item
TE = technology-enhanced item
ER = extended-response item
PT = performance task

9. SR = Selected Response

10. TE = Technology Enhanced

11. CR = Constructed Response

12. ER = Extended Response

13. PT = Performance Task

14. Common State Achievement
Assessments: Beginning 2014-15
A Multi-Mode An Online Assessment
Assessment System System
• Multiple Choice • Results returned quickly
• Short Answer (within hours or days
• Essay depending on the type
of task included)
• Technology Enhanced
Items (e.g. • Paper and pencil
simulations, tools) offered the first few
years
• Performance Tasks
(long projects) • Hope to be paperless
(except for
accommodations) by
2017

15. The SBAC Assessment System
English Language Arts and Mathematics, Grades 3 – 8 and High School
Last 12 weeks of year*
DIGITAL CLEARINGHOUSE of formative tools, processes and exemplars; released items and tasks;
model curriculum units; educator training; professional development tools and resources; an
interactive reporting system; scorer training modules; and teacher collaboration tools.
INTERIM ASSESSMENT INTERIM ASSESSMENT
Computer Adaptive Computer Adaptive PERFORMANCE COMPUTER
Assessment and Assessment and TASKS ADAPTIVE
Performance Tasks Performance Tasks • Reading ASSESSMENT
• Writing
• Math
Scope, sequence, number, and timing of interim
assessments locally determined
Re-take option
Optional Interim
Summative assessment
assessment system —
for accountability
no stakes
* Time windows may be adjusted based on results from the research agenda and final implementation decisions.

16. SBAC: Two Components of the
Summative Assessment
PERFORMANCE
TASKS + COMPUTER
ADAPTIVE
ASSESSMENT
• Measure the ability to
integrate knowledge and skills, • A computer adaptive assessment
as required in CCSS given during final 12 weeks of the
• Each task administered in school year*
two hour-long sittings.
• Multiple item types, scored by
• Computer-delivered, during
Computer, including tasks
final 12 weeks of the school
year* • Students will have the opportunity
• Results within 2 weeks to take the summative assessment
twice
• Scores from the performance assessment and the computer adaptive
assessment will be combined for annual accountability scores.
* Time windows may be adjusted based on results from the research agenda and final implementation decisions.
24-Feb-13

17. SBAC vs. MEAP
Think/Pair/Share
How is the SBAC different
from MEAP?

18. Common Core State
Standards

19. Common Core State Standards
(CCSS)
Think/Interview/Partner Share
• Think: What do you know about
the Math CCSS?
• Interview: Ask your partner 2-3
questions about the CCSS.
• Partner Share: You will report
on what your partner said.

20. K-8 Domains
Counting Ratios &
and Proportion
Cardinality
Operations and Algebraic Thinking The Number System
Number and Operations in Base Ten Expressions & Equations
Fractions Functions
Measurement and Data
Geometry Geometry
Statistics and Probability
K 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th

21. CCSS Document
Find these parts of the CCSS Document
1. Critical Areas
2. Grade Overview
3. Mathematical Practices
4. Standards
What can you tell me about each
part?

22. Critical Areas by Grades

23. Facts by Grade Level
Grade CCSS Required Fluency
K Add/subtract within 5
1 Add/subtract within 10
2 Add/subtract within 20 (know from memory all sums of two one-digit numbers)
Add/subtract within 1000
3 Multiply/divide within 100 (know from memory all products of two one-digit numbers)
Add/subtract within 1,000
4 Add/subtract within 1,000,000
5 Multi-digit multiplication
6 Multi-digit division
Multi-digit decimal operations

24. Design and Organization
Elementary/Middle School
 Content standards define what students should
understand and be able to do
 Clusters are groups of related standards
 Domains are larger groups that progress across
grades
Source: MDE- Math Common Core Power Point

25. How Are CCSS Different
1. Mathematical Practices are crucial
2. Higher Order Thinking Verbs
– Understand – Comprehension Level (2)
– Compare – Comprehension Level (2)
– Solve – Application Level (3)
– Classify – Analysis Level (4)
– Analyze – Analysis Level (4)
– Organize – Synthesis Level (5)
– Relate – Evaluation Level (6)
– Determine – Evaluation Level (6)

26. How Else Are They
Different?
1. Each grade level is accountable for
their critical areas.
2. Each grade level is building skills for
the next grade level.
3. CCSS concepts have distinct starting
and ending points.
4. Mathematical Practices are K-12

27. Grade Level Break Outs
Grade Level Meeting - 2:05 to 2:35
K/1 – Lisa, Lisa, and Barb
2/3 – Brenda
4/5 – Laura

28. Math Practices
• The standards are the WHAT
we teach.
• The Mathematical Practices
are the HOW we teach.

29. Math Practices

30. Standards for Mathematical
Practice

32. Story Problems
• Think about the last time you
taught a story problem in math
class.
• Tell your partner how you taught
story problems to your students.
– What does your room look/sound like?
– What are you doing?
– What are your students doing?

33. Laura’s Look-fors

34. Story Problems/Math Talk
in Action
1. Watch Video: Choose Three Ways
https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos
/problem-solving-math?fd=1
2. Discuss with your partner, using
the look-fors, the MP evidence
you saw in the video.

35. Questions/Internet
Resources/PD
• Internet Resources:
www.protopage.com/lchambless
• Questions
• Up Coming PDs

36. 4 Take Away Points
1. WHY – Smarter Balanced Assessment
2. WHAT – Math Common Core (CCSS)
3. HOW – Mathematical Practices (MP)
4. WHEN – Start today with MP.1 & MP.3

37. Learning Target
I can read, use, and understand
the level in which I need to
teach the Common Core State
Standards.

38. Thanks
Evaluation