2. Tonight’s Objectives
★ Mission, Vision, Core Beliefs of Oak Hills.
★ New standards as a guide to good instruction.
- How are standards, classrooms, and tests changing?
★ How new standards are impacting Oak Hills.
★ Where to seek additional information.
3. Why talk about Learning Standards?
★ We are committed to success in improving
instruction and learning.
★ Competitive skills for 21st century.
★ Committed to developing the “whole child.”
4. Success requires many resources
★ Curriculum, instruction, assessment.
★ Outstanding personnel.
★ Materials to support instruction.
★ Safe and conducive facilities for learning.
5. Changing Standards
★ Not much different than what we used before.
★ Opportunity for deeper levels of understanding.
★ Mastery of the “basics.”
★ Thinking, listening and speaking skills.
6. Changing Classrooms
★ More variety of reading and writing.
★ Thinking, listening, speaking skills.
★ Real world tasks and applications.
★ Cooperative learning and differentiated instruction.
7. Changing Assessments (tests)
★ Requires students to show what they know.
★ Engaging students in assessment.
★ Immediate feedback to inform instruction.
★ Interactive and web-based.
9. How have we been preparing?
★ Revised curriculum maps and lessons to make the new
standards our own.
★ Increasing rigor of classroom instruction and
assessment.
★ Focus on all students mastering grade level topics.
★ Upgrading technology.
10. Transition will likely mean lower test scores
(at first)
★ Performance dip expected at first (local and state).
★ More rigorous standards.
★ More rigorous assessments.
★ Instruction and learning will improve.
11. What can I do as a parent?
★ Explore the new content standards.
★ Offer support to improving teaching and learning.
★ Understand that a “drop” in performance is likely.
★ Continue working at home with your children.
★ Hold us accountable to improving.
12. Need more information?
Oak Hills website: ohlsd.us
corestandards.org
parcconline.org/common-core-ohio
education.ohio.gov/Topics/Academic-Content-Standards