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Key Ideas For Parents About The Commom Core: Assessment

The document provides information for parents about supporting the Common Core standards. It discusses four key areas: 1) Assessment, noting that report cards will show progress, not mastery; 2) Thinking Deeply, emphasizing critical thinking and justifying answers; 3) Integrating Learning, combining subjects into single tasks; and 4) Showing How They Know, requiring students to explain their reasoning. It concludes with ten tips for parents to support the standards at home, such as asking "why", discussing issues and solutions, comparing and categorizing items, and celebrating opinions.

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Key Ideas For Parents About The Commom Core: Assessment

The document provides information for parents about supporting the Common Core standards. It discusses four key areas: 1) Assessment, noting that report cards will show progress, not mastery; 2) Thinking Deeply, emphasizing critical thinking and justifying answers; 3) Integrating Learning, combining subjects into single tasks; and 4) Showing How They Know, requiring students to explain their reasoning. It concludes with ten tips for parents to support the standards at home, such as asking "why", discussing issues and solutions, comparing and categorizing items, and celebrating opinions.

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KEY IDEAS FOR PARENTS ABOUT THE COMMOM CORE

Assessment

Our ultimate goal is for all of our students to be proficient in the standards by the end of the school year. Their proficiency and mastery of the standards will be based on the professional judgment of our teachers, evidence collected via classroom observations and the assessment of each students work. It is important to note, however, that the first report card represents the progress made during the first trimester. As a result, the majority of our students will be considered approaching proficient, which, in most cases, means they have not hit the benchmark they must meet by the end of the year. In addition, each child will only receive a grade for the standards that were assessed during that time period. This means there may be standards with no grades assigned to them.

Thinking Deeply

The Common Core emphasizes critical thinking. It requires students to analyze more, discuss more, evaluate more, justify more and explain their thinking & understanding deeply, especially in writing.

Take-Away: Really thinking deeply is hard. Let it BE hard, help them talk it out.

Integrating Learning
The Common Core emphasizes learning across disciplines (reading with math & social studies standards combined into one task). Students spend more time working together with different settings, structures & tools.

Take-Away: Problems & Solutions happen everyday in the real world.

Show How They Know


The Common Core emphasizes proof & evidence. Long gone are the days of worksheets, fact memorizations and skill & drill. Students are not taught this way and they are not assessed this way.

Take-Away: The new tests will require students to explain how they know.

Supporting The Common Core at Home


1. Ask *why* when children tell you they want something or want to do something. 2. Use the word *because* after No or Not tonight3. Give reasons-you to them and them to you. 4. Encourage questions & explore answers (especially questions whose answers are not yes or no.) 5. Explain & discuss issues or problems in your neighborhood & community. Brainstorm solutions. 6. Compare how things are alike and different-videos, movies, food, etc. 7. Look for patterns. 8. Describe & categorize items. 9. Tell your children what you value & why. 10. Encourage & celebrate opinions.

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