Bauder Elementary School

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The Florida StandardsWhat Every Parent Should
Know

• Bauder Elementary School
• With help from Pamela T. Moore
• Associate Superintendent, Teaching and Learning
  Services
• Pinellas County Schools

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Intended Outcomes

• What are the Florida Standards?
• What does this mean for instruction and testing?
• How can you support your child in this journey?
• Where can you find additional information?

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Why did we need a change in Floridas
Standards?

• 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

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Why did we need a change?

• 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?

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Why did we need a change?

• 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

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How are Florida Standards different?

• 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

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Benefits of Florida Standards

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

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Benefits of Florida Standards

• 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.

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Benefits of Florida Standards

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

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Benefits of Florida Standards

• Collaboration
• Florida Standards will be a foundation for
  teachers across districts to work together from
  the same blueprints. This will facilitate the
  sharing of best practices.

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What are the standards?

• English/Language Arts (ELA) where Reading
  resides
• Mathematics
• Science S. Studies (still using NGSSS)

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FCAT v. FSA
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Writing March 3rd (grades 4 5)

• FCAT 2.0 Prompt

• FSA Prompt

• Everyone has experiences that they cant forget.
• Think about an experience you have had that you
  cant forget.
• Now write to tell what happened in the experience
  that you cant forget.
• 60 minutes to
• Read the prompt
• Plan the essay
• Draft, Revise, and Edit the essay

• The passages are discussing whether or not
  student should be required to play an instrument
  at school. Write an essay in which you give your
  opinion about requiring every student to learn to
  play a musical instrument. Use information from
  the sources in your essay.
• 90 minutes (30 extra if needed)
• Read the prompt
• Read 2 4 passages (maximum of 1400 words total)
• Take notes and synthesize all passages
• Plan essay
• Draft, Revise, and Edit the essay

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Shifts in English Language Arts

• PK 5 Balancing Informational Text and
  Literature
• Staircase of Complexity
• Text-based Answers
• Writing from Multiple Sources
• Academic Vocabulary

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Instructional CHANGES

• Attention to Text Complexity
• Emphasis on Student Tasks (especially writing)
• Responsibility for Reading Writing Instruction
• - Every Teacher, Every Subject, Every Day!

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ELA (Reading)

• FCAT 2.0 Sample Question

• FSA Sample Question

• With which two sentences 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 to
  regular ones.
• e. Students in the same class should live close
  to each other.

• Why does Miss. Bilberry want to move?
• a. She is lonely in the yellow pale house.
• b. She is looking for an exciting adventure.
• c. She wants more space for her vegetable garden.
• d. She thinks she will be more content somewhere
  else

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ELA (Reading)

• FCAT 2.0 Sample Question

• FSA Sample Question

• What is the relationship between paragraphs 2 and
  3 in the passage?
• a. Comparison
• b. Introduction
• c. Cause and effect
• d. Question and answer

• At the end of the passage, what bothers Miss.
  Bilberry?
• a. She believes the new house is not nice.
• b. She wonders why her new home is so familiar.
• c. She feels she should have kept going to
  another house.
• d. She thinks her cat really does not like his
  new home.

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ELA (Reading)

• FCAT 2.0 Sample Question

• FSA Sample Question

• What is the main idea of paragraph 4?
• Type your answer in the space provided.

• Read this sentence from the passage. He liked
  their quiet life in the pale yellow house with
  its broad-leaved tree, its two swaying palms, and
  its cool veranda.
• What mood does the author create by using the
  words swaying palms?
• a. Grateful
• b. Peaceful
• c. Sad
• d. Weary

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ELA (Reading)

• FSA Sample Question

• Fill in the circle before the two sentences that
  show how online classrooms and regular classrooms
  are alike.
• A. Today, students who live far away from their
  teacher have classes on the Internet. B. In some
  online classrooms, a classroom full of kids can
  use a special computer program at the same time
  as the teacher. C. The students can live in one
  country, and the teacher can be located in a
  different country. D. Still, its just like a
  classroom at your school. E. The teacher can
  teach the kids. F. The kids can ask questions.
  G. Everyone can see and hear everything thats
  being said as it happens.

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ELA (Reading)

• Part A How has learning from distant places
  changed over time?
• a. Students can ask questions and get answers
  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 located in a different country
• b. All the children could hear their teacher at
  the same time, but they 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 thats
  being said as it happens
• e. Sometimes, they dont have to have a class
  where everyone is together all at once

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English Language Arts - Reading
3rd grade 4th grade 5th grade
March 24 - 25 Paper/Pencil March 24 - 25 Paper/pencil (this year only) April 13 21 Computer
2 days- 80 minutes each day 2 days- 80 minutes each day 2 days- 80 minutes each day
56 60 items total over the 2 days 56 60 items total over the 2 days 56 60 items total over the 2 days
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Mathematics

• 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)

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Instructional CHANGES in Math

• Promote deep student discussion on the content
• Emphasis on Student Tasks (performance-tasks)
• Include PRACTICE Standards at all grade levels
• Expanded use of technology

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Mathematical Practice Standards

• 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.

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Math

• FCAT 2.0 Sample Question

• FSA Sample Question

• A bakery uses 48 pound of flour each day. It
  orders flour every 28 days.
• Create an equation that shows how many pounds of
  flour the bakery needs to order every 28 days.

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More Comparison Sample Questions

• FCAT 2.0

• FSA

• Select an expression that has the same value as
  30 10.
• 2
• 3
• 40
• 300

• Select all the expressions that have the same
  value as 30 10.
• 1 x 3
• 10 30
• 30 x 10
• 30 10 1
• 30 (2 5)
• (30 2) 5

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This is how 5th grade will see it
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More FSA Comparison Questions

• FCAT 2.0

• FSA

• What is the value of this expression
• d 3 12 R2
• 38
• 36
• 4
• 6

• Consider the equation
• d 3 12 remainder 2.
• Part A. What is the dividend, d?
• Part B. What would the dividend, d, be if there
  was no remainder?

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This is how 5th grade could see it
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This is how 5th grade could see it
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Math
3rd grade 4th grade 5th grade
April 7 - 8 Paper/Pencil April 7 - 8 Paper/pencil (this year only) April 22 - 30 Computer
2 days- 80 minutes each day 2 days- 80 minutes each day 2 days- 80 minutes each day
56 60 items total over the 2 days 56 60 items total over the 2 days 56 60 items total over the 2 days
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Science - NGSSS
5th grade
Paper/Pencil
2 days- 80 minutes each day
60 - 66 items total over the 2 days
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