The new Common Core Standards:How can we support our children at home?

Musical Tea Party

When you hear the music find a partner When the music stops share…

1. Your name and where your child goes to school2. What do you know about the new Common Core Standards?3. What do you know about reclassification of English Language Learners?

Video on CCSS

Share with an elbow partner something you learned from the video.

3 shifts in OUSD for CCSS

1. Reading complex text2. Writing with evidence3. Academic discussions

Reading Complex Text• This means reading more books that are not stories

with everyday conversational language, but books that deal with big ideas and concepts.

• Reading is of higher syntactic complexity and sentence structure, and involves more tier 2 and 3 vocabulary.

• The language is complex enough to move students toward college and career readiness.

Writing with Evidence

• This skill requires students to think and do research to support their ideas.

• It involves writing beyond one’s opinion, and writing with facts, data, examples and artifacts of evidence.

Quality Academic Conversations• This is not just the teacher saying “talk to your partner about your

weekend.”• The teacher sets a purpose about a big idea and purposefully asks

a question that makes students think, question themselves and others, take a stand and share their thinking. In the process, they convince others or change their minds about what they thought.

• This requires students to work together to expand their knowledge and develop a deeper understanding about a topic.

• Students are engaged in talk that allows multiple and diverse perspectives.

Double Duty for ELL’s

English Language Learners are faced with:1. Mastering content in all subject areas in English

and2. Improving their English language proficiency

What does reclassification mean?• It is an important step in the progress and development of

an English learner. • It means students are designated from a Limited English

learner student to a Fluent English proficient student.• It suggests students can learn and understand concepts at

the same rate as native speakers of the same age and grade level.

• It means students can now take classes that are on the path to college (A-G).

What are the California State Reclassification Criteria?

• CELDT scores of high 3,4,5• CST scores of 4,5, in English• Report card grades of C, Satisfactory or higher

overall

Data for English Language Learners• The annual District reclassification goal is 16.5%;

however, the average reclassification for students in OUSD averaged between 8-10% in 2013-2014.

• Research shows that English Language Learners only speak for 4% of the day, with only 2% of the time spent using academic language.

Long Term English Learners (LTEL)• A Long Term English Learner (LTEL) is a student who

has been enrolled in U.S. schools for more than six years, is no longer progressing towards English proficiency and is struggling academically.

• LTEL’s do not have the English skills needed for academic success, and have accumulated major academic gaps in their elementary school and/or middle school years.

Does this look familiar?

Academic Conversations

From: To:

What can you do?

What is your opinion about that? Why?

Activity: Academic Discussion PlacematInstructions: • Find a group of 3 or 4 parents • Each placemat has discussion starters and questions• When you use one of the sentence starters on the placemat, put down a chip in

that square• During your discussion you must use at least 3 chips• You can use the same sentence more than once or come up with your own

Prompt: In your opinion, what is the best way to learn English?

Share your ideas!

What are some ways to support academic discussions with your child at home?

Parent Guide to the Common Core Standards: Scavenger Hunt

Instructions:• Pair up!• Take 5 min to look over the parent guide together• Use the guide to find the answers to the following questions:

1. Name one key shift in each area.2. Name three new things that you might find in your child’s backpack or in

their homework.3. Name three activities you will / can do at home with your child.4. I commit to _________________with my child this year!

Survey• Please share some successes and challenges you have experienced in

OUSD.• Please take a few minutes to fill out the survey for the English Language

Learner Office.

THANK YOU!!