Sample Items and Performance Tasks

Smarter Balanced sample items illustrate the rigor and complexity of the English language arts/literacy and mathematics items and performance tasks students will encounter on the Consortium’s next-generation assessments. The sample items and performance tasks are intended to help teachers, administrators, and policymakers implementing the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and preparing for next-generation assessments. They provide an early look into the depth of understanding of the CCSS that will be measured by the Smarter Balanced assessment system. While the items and tasks are not intended to be used as sample tests, educators can use them to begin planning the shifts in instruction that will be required to help students meet the demands of the new assessments. The sample items and tasks can be viewed by grade band (grades 3-5, 6-8, and high school) or content focus. In the coming months, additional items and performance tasks will be made available. Using the Sample Items and Tasks

Common Core & Ohio Revised Standards Templates The Allen County ESC has devised templates for educators to use to map out the English Language Arts and Mathematics Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and Science and Social Studies Ohio revised Learning Standards. These templates list all of the strands, standard/content statements, topics, themes, domains, and clusters based on the 2010 CCSS and Ohio Learning Standards. Teachers have found these templates to be useful for creating pacing guides and/or curriculum maps. Maps are formatted in Excel to make it easy to manipulate columns. Areas of Study: English and Language ArtsMathematicsScienceSocial StudiesArtMusicPhysical EducationWorld Language

CCSS Videos - The Reading Pathways to the Common Core: Videos from Inside Classrooms features almost 40 clips of Common-Core aligned teaching and learning. We captured these scenes of classroom teaching in an effort to help you imagine methods of teaching that can support students in moving towards the ambitious standards set by the Common Core. Watch videos of teaching aimed to help move students toward major aspects of the standards: Reading Literature Reading Informational Texts Opinion/Argument Writing Information Writing Narrative Writing Each clip includes critical commentary by a member of the Project staff and explains connections we see to the Common Core. School: PS 199 Title: Common Core Aligned Book Club ConversationSynopsis: A informally shot video of a fourth grade historical fiction book club from PS 199 engaging in cross-text, cross-genre conversation. School: Title:Discussing Historical Fiction CriticallySynopsis:A video of Kathleen Tolan reading aloud Freedom Summer to support club talk.

FastFig: The Word Processor for Math, Elementary, Middle, High Purplemath Academic Content Standards Skip navigation Skip to main content SAFE | State Agencies | Online Services Follow Home > Academic Content Standards > Mathematics Mathematics Contact Information Mathematics Consultant (P) 614- 644-5887 ann.carlson@education.ohio.gov Mathematics Consultant (P) 614-728-2373 annika.moore@education.ohio.gov Mathematics Consultant (P) 614-387-7561 yelena.palayeva@education.ohio.gov Mathematics Consultant (P) 614-644-6814 brian.bickley@education.ohio.gov The State Board of Education has adopted the Common Core State Standards in Mathematics as part of Ohio's suite of Ohio's New Learning Standards for academic learning. Ohio's New Learning Standards Information on the College and Career Ready (Common Core) Standards. Model Curricula These mathematics Model Curricula were written by Ohio educators to support the implementation of Ohio's New Learning Standards for mathematics. In October 2013, Career Connections strategies were added to the Instructional Strategies in the model curricula.

Response to Intervention | Intervention Central Learn To Read A Ruler - Elementary, Middle, High The University of Arizona - Institute for Mathematics & Education The Common Core State Standards in mathematics were built on progressions: narrative documents describing the progression of a topic across a number of grade levels, informed both by research on children's cognitive development and by the logical structure of mathematics. These documents were spliced together and then sliced into grade level standards. From that point on the work focused on refining and revising the grade level standards. The early drafts of the progressions documents no longer correspond to the current state of the standards. It is important to produce up-to-date versions of the progressions documents. This project is organizing the writing of final versions of the progressions documents for the K–12 Common Core State Standards.

RTI and Math Instruction by Amanda VanDerHeyden, Ph.D., Education Research and Consulting, Inc., Fairhope, AL Using RTI to Improve Learning in Mathematics Response to Intervention (RTI) has become a vehicle for system reform because it provides a framework in which data can be relied on as the basis for making relative judgments (e.g., determining who needs help the most and how much they need) and for distributing instructional resources to promote the greatest good for the greatest number of students. Much of the writing and research on RTI has occurred in the area of reading, but RTI is not limited to reading. Rather, it is a science of decision making that can be applied to a variety of “problem” behaviors. RTI, properly understood and used, is focused on improving student learning. In mathematics, a reform process similar to what occurred in reading in the 1990s appears to be underway. Useful Screening and Progress Monitoring Measures in Mathematics Data are required for decision making in RTI. References

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