Oklahoma Academic Standards Committee Receives Update from Writing Teams, First Draft Due June 1
OKLAHOMA CITY
(May 20, 2015) - The Oklahoma
Academic Standards Setting Steering Committee is moving forward with the
development of new state academic standards in preK-12 for English language arts
(ELA) and mathematics. The Committee met Tuesday at the Oklahoma State
Department of Education (OSDE) to hear updates from the writing teams for ELA
and mathematics.
The ELA writing team held a first draft
writing session May 14-15. Dr. Jennifer Watson, co-chair of the ELA writing
team, said the meetings were extremely useful. “We wanted to make sure we
broadened the purpose of the [standards] document to represent 21st century
skills,” she told the steering committee. The team presented the committee with
eight preliminary overarching standards, including:
- Speaking
and Listening
- Reading
Process/Writing Process
- Vocabulary
- Critical
Reading/Critical Writing
- Language
- Research
- Multiple
Literacies
-
Independent
Reading/Independent Writing
The Mathematics writing team met May 1-2
for an in-depth writing session. Dr. Stacy Reeder, co-chair of the math-standards
writing team, presented the steering committee with seven process skills
established by the writing team. Those seven skills include developing:
- Deep
and flexible understanding
- Accurate
and appropriate procedural fluency
- Strategies
for solving diverse problems
- Mathematical
reasoning
- Productive
mathematical disposition
- Ability
to make conjectures and generalize
- Ability
to communicate mathematically
“I
feel very confident with them and how they are taking shape,” Reeder said.
The ELA and Mathematics writing teams
will finish and present a first draft by June 1. A second draft review will be
presented at the EngageOK Summer Conference July 7-9. Final drafts from each
team will be presented to the steering committee by Oct. 1.
"I am extremely pleased with the
work both writing teams have accomplished in such a short amount of time."
said State Superintendent of Public Instruction Joy Hofmeister. "I
know we are on the right track to forming standards that will truly make a
positive difference."
Under House Bill 3399, which had
repealed common core academic standards, the OSDE — in collaboration with the
Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education, State Board of Career and
Technology Education and the Oklahoma Department of Commerce — is tasked with developing
English and math standards for implementation by the 2016-17 school year.
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