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Welcome to the Iowa Content Standards Implementation Workshop

Welcome to the Iowa Valley Community College District

Workshop Goal

Workshop Objectives:

Presenters

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The CASAS National Consortium Content Standards Project

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Objectives

Background

What are Content Standards?

Basis for Project

Sources for Standards

Technical Work Group

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Reading Categories

Listening Categories

Coding System for Basic Skills Content Standards

Math Categories

Advantages of Categories and Coding

Reading Basic Skills Content Standards (Blue)

Listening ESL Basic Skills Content Standards (Green)

Life and Work

Life and Work (L& W) Reading Series

L&W Reading Series (cont’d)

L & W Reading (cont’d)

L&W Reading (cont’d)

Materials to Assist Instructors

Reading Basic Skills Content Standards by Test Item—Form 83R (White)

Listening Basic Skills Content Standards—Worksheet—Level B (Gray)

Lesson Plans

Piloting Efforts and Lessons Learned

Iowa Pilot Project Advisory Group

Project to Date

Materials Piloted

Early Lessons Learned

Early Lessons Learned

Pilot Project Evaluation Design

Key Findings

 

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Instructional Time

Basic Skills Awareness

Learning gains--IA

User Friendly & Comprehensive

Class Test Performance Data

Using Content Standards in the Classroom

Life Skills and Basic Skills Content Standards

Life Skills and Basic Skills Content Standards Activity 1 (Buff)

Group Sharing

TOPSpro and Content Standards

Using TOPSpro Reports

Use Page Sort Order to Identify Incorrect Items

Using the Class Performance by Competency Report

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Using Reading Basic Skills Content Standards by Test Item—Form 83R (White)

Basic Skill R2.6 corresponds to Item # 3

Using the Reading Basic Skills Content Standards by Instructional Level (Blue)

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Practice with 83 R Materials—Activity 2 (white)

83R Practice (Continued)

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Listening Basic skills Content Standards—Worksheets

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Priority Competencies to Listening Basic Skills Content Standards—Level B Worksheet—Activity 3 (Gray)

Worksheet (Continued)

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Q & A Session

Challenge and Next Steps

Author: Jim Harrison