COMMON+CORE+STATE+STANDARDS

=Common Core State Standards = Nicole Biggers Ryan Catterson Kerry Connolly Heather Crosley Scott Luxenberg Deanna Sequeira Ashley Vinti

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Prior to the state changing the format of the English Regents, the NYS English Language Arts (ELA) Curriculum had several core performance indicators, common to the 4 ELA standards. Standard 1- Students will read, write, listen, and speak for **information and understanding.** Standard 2- Students will read, write, listen, and speak for **literary response and expression.** Standard 3- Students will read, write, listen, and speak for **critical analysis and evaluation.** Standard 4- Students will read, write, listen, and speak for **social interaction.**


 * These Four standards are further broken down by Performance Indicators that are grade specific.**
 * Pre-Kindergarten through 1st grade
 * 2nd through 4th grade
 * 5th through 6th grade
 * 7th through 8th grade
 * 9th through 12th grade
 * The Specific Indicators can be found here: []

I am focusing on grades 9-12 to assess student success since these 4 standards are weaved together during high school.

This past January, the state administered the New English Regents- a one day, 3 hour test where before it was a two day, six hour test. This new exam tested students on the reading, writing, and listening aspects of standards 1-3. However, the speaking portion across all the standards along with standard 4 were cut out of the exam altogether.

Regardless of the changes to the exam, we need more innovative ways to teach & assess our students.

One way of accomplishing this goal is by using an interactive lesson I found on readwritethink.org Here is the link to it: http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/creating-psychological-profiles-characters-1184.html

Using Harper Lee's most famous novel, //To Kill a Mockingbird// students will create psychological profiles of a character of their (or their teacher's) choice after finishing the book. Here are some interactive tools to help students create a psychological profile of a character:

Under the current NYS Mathematics Core Curriculum, we have a set of five content strands working simultaneously with five process strands. The chart below illustrates this relation.
In addition, the Core Curriculum points out certain significant “performance indicators” that include the ability to //investigate/ explore, discover, conjecture, reason, argue, justify/ explain one’s argument, formally prove one’s argument, and apply the gained knowledge to something outside of the classroom.//

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== With this framework in place, it is fair to ask exactly how this curriculum can be assessed. The old MATH A and MATH B exams have been done away with in recent years to make way for a brand new and hopefully better system for assessing students’ mathematics knowledge. Starting in June 2008, the board of Regents administered the Integrated Algebra Regents Exam followed by the Geometry Regents and Algebra II/ Trigonometry Regents in June 2009 and June 2010 respectively. The fact that our NYS Mathematics Core Curriculum has gone through a complete overhaul, it become necessary for mathematics teachers to make significant adjustments to their individual curriculum and daily lesson plans. The difficulty adjusting to this new curriculum is evident in an article written by //[|Caitlin Nuclo]//. ==

== **The innovative project-based learning style may be a more effective means to assess our mathematics students. Please refer to the video below if you need to familiarize yourself with this particular approach to teaching and assessing:** media type="youtube" key="LMCZvGesRz8" height="390" width="640" ==

For even more information regarding project-based learning (PBL) follow this [|link].
== **Focusing for a moment on the Algebra II/ Trigonometry curriculum, the project-based style of assessing students may be quite useful. In terms of core curriculum standards in this mathematical subtopic, one could easily satisfy NYS standards using a project-based summative assessment guided through inquiry and collaboration. For a full outline of the NYS Core Curriculum regarding Algebra II/ Trigonometry, [|click here]** ==

http://critical-thinkers.com/2010/04/how-are-you-developing-21st-century-skills-in-your-organization/ According to the American Management Association (AMA) more workplaces now evaluate their employees based on two of the four main tenets of the P21 Curriculum: collaboration and critical thinking skills.

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