Irv Richardson Coordinator for Public Education and School
Support NEA-NH Workshop for Candidates
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Overview of Todays Workshop Background of Common Core State
Standards (CCSS) in New Hampshire Common Core Standards for English
Language Arts High School Teacher, David Pook Common Core State
Standards for Mathematics Middle School Teacher, Jamie Sirois
Messaging- George Strout, Communications Director, NEA-NH
Questions
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The Metaphor of Journey Destination Ensuring our students are
productive members of communities and the 21 st Century work force
Standards Define the tools and resources with which we want to
equip students for their current and future journeys. Curriculum
Roads taken to develop the tools and resources we want students to
have on their journeys. Assessment Determining where students are
in developing their tools and resources.
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Our Childrens Future is Unknown Children are the living
messages we send to a time we will not see. Neil Postman
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Preparing Our Children for an Unknown Future
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Your turn Give the changes we are experiencing in our society,
with what tools and skills should we equip our children to ensure
they are prepared in the future? English Language Arts tools and
skills? Mathematical tools and skills?
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Common Core State Standards (CCSS) The Common Core State
Standards Initiative is a state led effort that includes math,
reading, and curriculum specialists, in partnership with the
National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State
School Officers. The purpose was to establish a single set of clear
educational expectations for English language arts/literacy and
mathematics that states can share and voluntarily adopt. New
Hampshire has embedded the standards from this initiative into our
College and Career Ready Standards.
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NH College and Career Readiness Standards NH College and Career
Readiness Standards are grade level student expectations that have
been adopted by the State Board of Education to support student
success in core academics, career and technical education and other
subjects. They are drawn from state and national standards and are
meant to guide schools and districts as they set their student
expectations, curriculum and instructional practices.
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Common Core State Standards The State Board of Education
adopted the new standards for English language arts/literacy and
mathematics at their July 8, 2010 meeting. The Department held over
30 well-attended forums around the state from 2009 to 2011
regarding the new standards, including five with NH higher
education faculty and NH K-12 educators to examine their relevance
to success in college. The CCSS are not a national or state
curriculum nor are they federally mandated. Standards do not tell
teachers how to teach; they articulate what students should know
and be able to demonstrate in grades K-12. It remains up to each
local school district to design curriculum to help their students
successfully achieve the standards.
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Common Core State Standards do NOT define: How teachers should
teach All that can or should be taught The nature of advanced work
beyond the core standards Standards in other content areas
(science, social studies, art, etc) The interventions needed for
students well below grade level The full range of support for
English language learners and students with special needs
Everything needed to be college- and career-ready
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Exploring Common Core Standards Opportunity to experience the
CCSS as students might English Language Arts/Literacy David Pook
Standards tools and skills Activity - curriculum Assessment
monitoring the development of skills Mathematics Jamie Sirois
Standards tools and skills Activity - curriculum Assessment
monitoring the development of skills
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Keep in mind Criticism of the Standards is often actually
concern about the curriculum activities or how we assess student
learning, not the Common Core Standards. The standards are the
considered opinions of educators, specialists and others about what
our children need to succeed as engaged members of communities and
the workforce. Are the knowledge and skills articulated in the
standards the types of things that YOU know and that you believe
would be essential for our CHILDREN to know and be able to do?
