Requirements for Grade Advancement

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Requirements for Grade Advancement
Promotion Requirements High School Graduation
Tests and Assessments
Presented by Karen Walker, Vice Principal
Elementary School Division
September 29, 2007 FUSD Family Leadership
Conference
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Promotion Requirements

• Elementary School
• Planning for High School graduation begins in
  Elementary School
• Take school seriously
• Regular attendance
• Passing grades
• Learn to read
• Learn basic foundations of Math
• Test scores
• Grade advancements

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Promotion Requirements

• Middle School
• Higher stakes
• Daily attendance
• Multiple teachers subjects
• Building skills for High School
• Focus on career pathway or college preparation
  (A-G requirements)
• PSAT (Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test)
• GPA (grade point average)
• Grade advancement

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High School Graduation

• High School
• Graduation requirements
• Grade D or better to pass course
• 230 Units
• To be a 10th grader 50 units
• To be an 11th grader 110 units
• To be a 12th grader 170 units
• To graduate 230 units
• Pass the CAHSEE (California High School Exit
  Exam)

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Tests and Assessments

• CAHSEE (California High School Exit Exam)
• Requirement to graduate from High School
• English/Language Arts, Mathematics, Writing tests
• First opportunity in Sophomore year (10th grade)
• Five additional opportunities to take test
• District CAHSEE assistance
• Supplemental instruction
• 9th and 10th grade intervention classes
• 11th and 12th grade intervention classes
  programs

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Tests and Assessments

• CHSPE (California High School Proficiency Exam)
• Earn legal equivalent of a high school diploma by
  passing the CHSPE
• Awarded a Certificate of Proficiency
• Two Sections English Language Arts
  Mathematics
• Requirements
• 16 years
• 10th grade for one academic year or longer
• Complete 10th grade year

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Tests and Assessments

• Importance of Standardized Tests
• California Standardized Testing and Reporting
  (STAR) program
• Test grade-level standards
• Test subjects in 2nd through 11th grades
• Measure how well students are learning
• Measure how well schools are preparing students
• Testing results help schools to improve
  instruction

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Tests and Assessments

• STAR testing modifications
• available
• English Learners
• Flexible setting, schedule, and time translated
  directions and glossary word lists
• Students with Exceptional Needs
• Large print, Braille, extended time and use of
  reader, scribe, or calculator
• Students with exceptional cognitive disabilities
  take the California Alternative Performance
  Assessment (CAPA) in English Language Arts and
  Mathematics

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Tests and Assessments

• Spanish Standards-based Tests (STS) and Aprenda
  3, (Learn 3, the Achievement Test in Spanish,
  Third Edition)
• Required for Spanish- speaking English learners
  in the U. S. less than 1 year
• Spanish and English standards tests are
  required for students in Spanish bilingual and
  dual immersion classes.
• Grades 2, 4, 5, and 11

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Tests and Assessments

• The California English Language Development Test
  (CELDT)
• Purpose Determine students progress in
  learning the English language
• Required by State law for K-12th grade students
  whose native language is not English
• Four skills tested
• Oral comprehension (K-12th grade)
• Listening (K-12th grade)
• Reading (2nd-12th grade)
• Writing (2nd-12th grade)
• Inform parents of results Beginning, Early
  intermediate, Intermediate, Early Advanced, or
  Advanced

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Test Preparation at Home

• Prepare your child to take these tests
• Reduce stress in the days before the test
• Focus on not getting sick
• Attending school on test day
• Eat a well-balanced dinner and breakfast
• Get at least 8 hours of sleep
• Drink lots of water the day of the test
• Relax before and during the test
• Take the test seriously
• Answer all the questions