Getting to Know Your Common Core Math Standards for Those Changing Grade Level

We will be offering a one-day professional development opportunity for teachers who are changing grade level bands in math or have never taught the Bridges curriculum. The class, Getting to Know Your Common Core Math Standards for Those Changing Grade Level, familiarizes participants with the Common Core State Standards as well as how to support both standards and math practices using the district-adopted Bridges Curriculum. 

Grades K-2: June 17 (various locations)
Grades 3-5: June 18 (various locations) 

Please sign up on the PPS Learning campus for more details.  There are limited spots available in each grade level. 

Smarter Balance Reminders - Grade 3-5

Grades 3-5 Teachers,

There are new resources available for Smarter Balanced (SB) at: http://sbac.portal.airast.org/practice-test/resources These resources would be excellent preparation tools for getting your students familiar with the Smarter Balanced Assessment interface they will be seeing this spring.

Math:

Few things to remember:

·         The Computer Adaptive Test (CAT) portion in grades 3-5 will be computer scored.

·         There is a performance task that students will be taking for their grade level.

·         No calculators or outside manipulatives can be used during the test

Things to do in preparation for the Smarter Balanced Assessment:

·         Have students take the practice test and use the Equation Editor: Equation Editor Tutorial

·         Give students an opportunity to explore the universal tools such as the highlighter, strikethrough options, and digital notepad

·         There will be different kinds of items on the CAT than just multiple choice, so students should be prepared to encounter multiple answer, grid,  manipulating objects and matching

·         Look at sample SB problems off the ODE page: http://www.ode.state.or.us/search/page/?id=3729

English Language Arts

Things to do in preparation for the Smarter Balanced Assessment

·         Have students take the practice test

·         Give students an opportunity to explore the universal tools such as highlighter, strikethrough options, and the zoom in and zoom out buttons.

·         Look at sample SB problems off the ODE page: http://www.ode.state.or.us/search/page/?id=3713 and http://www.ode.state.or.us/search/page/?=3405

Intro Videos

 http://www.smarterbalanced.org/k-12-education/teachers/