What is meant by unpacking the standards?
Unpacking a standard means to analyze that language, extracting clues that describe two aspects of the standard that students need to know: essential knowledge and essential skills.
How do you break down common core standards?
Breaking down the Common Core’s 8 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.
What does CCSS ELA mean?
The Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts & Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects (“the standards”) represent the next generation of K–12 standards designed to prepare all students for success in college, career, and life by the time they graduate from high school.
Why do teachers unpack standards?
Unpacking the standards allows teachers to better understand what are students are expected to know at each grade level. This allows teachers to develop appropriate lessons targeting the grade level standard. Unpacking also allows teachers to develop grade level assessments (both formative and summative).
What is unpacking curriculum standards and competencies?
Unpacking is the process of deconstructing student learning outcomes into component parts /competencies to identify key life-long transferable learning skills and the types of learning experiences, activities, tasks, and assessments that align with those outcomes.
Why do we need to unpack standards?
Why is deconstructing standards important?
We’ve found that when content standards are not accompanied by what can serve as day-to-day classroom curriculum, it’s helpful to “deconstruct,” or break down, unclear standards to see what knowledge, reasoning proficiencies, skills, and/or products underpin student success.
Does California use Common Core?
45 states have adopted Common Core, including California.
Why do we unpack standards?
What is unpacking curriculum?
Curriculum unpacking technically occurs when the intended curriculum is interpreted or translated by the teachers into classroom instruction. This process needs to be informed by a very clear understanding of the curriculum contained in materials of the intended curriculum.
