What are the Florida Standards?

What are the Florida Standards?

• What are the Florida Standards?

• What is the Florida Standards Assessment?

• How did this national movement get started?

• Who is impacted by the standards change?

• What are the implications for teachers and students with this transition?

• How can you support your child in this journey?

• Where can you find additional information?

So what is the big deal?

• So what is the big deal?

What type of thinking is involved?

• What type of thinking is involved?
• How deeply do you need to understand a topic to interact with the content being presented?
• What kinds of cognitive tasks are being asked of students? Simple recall of facts? Analyze a complex argument?

Low Levels of Rigor

• Low Levels of Rigor

• NGSSS featured large amounts of knowledge and recall learning targets
• Under-developing critical thinking abilities
• Disadvantaged in college and the workplace

Lack of Clarity

• Lack of Clarity

• “Write for a variety of purposes.”
• “Respond to variety of literary/informational texts.”
• “Competently use money.”
• Were these standards clear to teachers, students, and parents?

Inconsistencies

• Inconsistencies

• Different districts set different learning targets
• Different classrooms learning different topics
• We must expect high achievement from all students in all classrooms
• Florida chose to include more standards than those outlined in Common Core

Increased complexity of texts

• Increased complexity of texts
• Focus on foundational math skills and application in novel, real-world situations
• A return to depth as opposed to breadth
• Increased focus on justifying and presenting results and methods
• Critical reading and writing infused across all curricular areas
• Re-ordering of math content to reflect research-based path to college and career readiness

Preparation:

• Preparation:

• The Florida Standards will prepare students for both college and the workplace and emphasizes higher-order, critical-thinking skills instead of knowledge and recall.

Competition:

• Competition:

• The Florida Standards have been influenced by internationally-benchmarked standards, ensuring that our students are prepared to be competitive in the global job market.

Clarity:

• Clarity:

• The standards are focused, coherent, and clear. Everyone knows what is expected of our students.

Collaboration:

• Collaboration:

• The Florida Standards are a foundation for teachers across districts to work together from the same blueprints. This facilitates the sharing of best practices.

• English/Language Arts (ELA) (Reading and Writing)

• Mathematics

K-12 students

• K-12 students

• Current 3rd – 11th graders will take the new Florida Standards Assessments (FSA)

NOW!

• NOW!

• Have been working towards the instructional shifts over the past two years.

• Fully implemented and assessed in 2014-2015

The Florida Standards and their accompanying assessments will provide a valid comparison to other districts across the state, and to some degree to other states.

• The Florida Standards and their accompanying assessments will provide a valid comparison to other districts across the state, and to some degree to other states.

• Promotion

• Graduation

• College Admission

FCAT Writes Prompt Example

• FCAT Writes Prompt Example

• Everyone has a hero or someone they look up to. Think about a hero or someone you look up to in your life. Now write to explain why this person is your hero.

FCAT (old)

• FCAT (old)

• 1. With which sentence would the author agree?

• A. Learning is exciting no matter how you do it.

• B. All students should go to school on the Internet.

• C. Thousands of students in the same class are too many.

• D. Online classrooms are a good alternative.

5.

• 5.

• Part A

• How has learning from a distant place changed over time?

• A. Students can ask questions faster.

• B. Students can hear their teacher during the same class time.

• C. Students use the mail to receive and send work.

• D. Students live far apart from their classmates.

• Part B

• Select one sentence that supports the answer in Part A.

• A. “The students can live in one country, and the teacher can be from another country.”

• B. “All the children could hear their teacher at the same time, but were hundreds of miles apart.”

• C. “They got their lessons in the mail, did their homework, and mailed it back to the teacher.”

• D. “Everyone can see and hear everything that’s being said as it happens.”

• E. “Sometimes, they don’t have to have a class where everyone is together all at once.”

http://www.fsassessments.org/training-tests

• http://www.fsassessments.org/training-tests

Resources:

• Resources:

• Parent Guides to Student Success

• www.pta.org/common_core_standards.asp

• By grade level

• Sample of what your child will be working on

• Activities included for you to support at home

• FSA Portal

• http://www.fsassessments.org/students-and-parents

Attention to Text Complexity

• Attention to Text Complexity

• Emphasis on Student Tasks (especially writing)

• Responsibility for Reading & Writing Instruction

• - Every Teacher, Every Subject, Every Day!

Standards for Mathematical

• Standards for Mathematical

• CONTENT (Familiar)

• Define what students should know and be able to do (The “What”)

• Standards for Mathematical PRACTICE (New and Different)

• Describe ways in which the mathematical content standards should be approached (The “How”)

Promote deep student discussion on the content

• Promote deep student discussion on the content

• Emphasis on Student Tasks (performance-tasks)

• Include PRACTICE Standards at all grade levels

• Expanded use of technology

Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.

• Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.

• Reason abstractly and quantitatively.

• Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.

• Model with mathematics.

• Use appropriate tools strategically.

• Attend to precision.

• Look for and make use of structure.

• Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.

PCS website – www.pcsb.org

• PCS website – www.pcsb.org

• Online learning tools

• Digital Learning

• Beyond the Classroom

Other useful websites to search for information:

• Other useful websites to search for information:

• www.fldoe.org

• www.cpalms.org

You may contact:

• You may contact:

• Holly Slaughter, Pinellas County Schools

• [e-mail]