Alignment with California Content Standards

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Alignment with California Content Standards
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Alignment with California Content Standards
Initial assumptions Attracting more students to
engineering careers is a goal of IEEE. You want
to connect with middle school and high school
students to achieve this goal.
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Obstacles Few middle schools and even high
schools have speaker days and career days
anymore. Even when they are available, speaker
days and career days offer limited contact with
students. Teachers resist single career oriented
exploration as taking too much time out of class.
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Solution? Help teachers deliver required content
while also teaching the student about your
profession. This is easy . . . . . . except for
all the stuff I didnt know when I came out of
industry.
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• I didnt know why I should be concerned with
  California content standards.
• They standardize what is taught so your project
  or presentation works in all same subject
  classrooms.
• The longer you connect with students the more
  impact you will have, and . . .
• The longer you want to be in the classroom with
  students the more important it will be for you to
  incorporate standards.

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• When dont you have to worry about standards?
• Single class period presentation (like a speaker
  day).
• After school project or presentation.
• Club presentation.

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• What are California Content Standards?
• Explicit content that students need to acquire
  at each grade level.
• Standards describe what to teach not how to
  teach it.

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• I didnt know
• that I should be interested in connecting with
  the same students for more than one class period.
• that I should be focusing on projects (new or
  existing).
• that I should connect with students who are
  studying a content standards based subject.

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What subjects have state content standards?

• English Language Arts, Adopted December 1997
• Mathematics, Adopted December 1997
• History-Social Science, Adopted October 1998
• Science, Adopted October 1998
• English Language Development, English Version,
  Adopted 1999
• Visual and Performing Arts, Adopted January 2001
  
• Physical Education Model Content Standards,
  Adopted Jan-2005
• Career Technical Education, Adopted May 2005

Students are tested in grades 2-11
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Where can our state standards be found?
http//www.cde.ca.gov/be/st/ss/
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Why do students and teachers care about standards?
Because they are both held accountable for them
through testing.
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• California State High School Exit Exam - CASEE
• STAR Testing (Standardized Testing and Reporting)
• CST (California Standards Tests)
• State Academic Performance Index (API) Evaluates
  teachers, schools, districts, and students
  drill right down to the classroom level
• Federal NCLB Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) Tied
  to Title 1 money
• In our district this is 22,000,0000 !

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• I didnt know how standards are used in the
  classroom.
• Textbooks
• Daily lesson plans and objectives
• Unit Tests
• Projects get aligned with standards

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• Keyword Project (for us read HOOK)
• Teachers know what powerful teaching tools
  hands-on projects can be.
• This is called Project Based Learning (PBL)
• PBL engages multiple learning modalities
• Education jargon again. Multiple learning
  styles.
• But I found out that PBL is not used very often
  in the classroom!
• Why?

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Teachers have been taught to teach in traditional
ways that dont necessarily include
PBL. and, Creating standards based projects takes
a lot of time, creativity, and hard
work. and, Teachers are not necessarily experts
in the application of what they
teach. and, Theyre simply not used to doing it.
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And, Projects cost money.
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So I learned that Teachers would like to do more
projects but may lack the training, resources,
and time to pull it off.
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So heres the money shot . . .
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I became a standards supporting, project based
learning, I understand what youre facing,
teacher champion!
And got invited to deliver 80 classroom sessions
totaling 2,400 student hours of engineering
workforce development this year.
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• Starting a new standards based project from
  scratch
• Teachers know the standards, the subject matter,
  and the texts.
• You know the application of what they teach.

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• What subject should we use?
• Every student in 7th through 11th takes English
  and math (they call it Language Arts in middle
  school).
• Math is an easy connection, but almost any
  subject is found in engineering . . .
• . . . Science, English, Social Science, Physics,
  History

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• More education jargon
• Cross curriculum project
• You could potentially connect nearly every class
  in a common, engineering based project
• Take a bridge, for example . . .
• But we digress . . .

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So weve chosen a subject, say math. And weve
chosen a target audience, say 8th grade Notice we
havent chosen our topic yet? This is where we
need to include teachers.
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Our goal is to find the easiest way inside the
classroom. . . which is Find a unit or units
that students have difficulty with or the teacher
thinks is especially important. How? Go to your
nearest middle school (works just as well in high
schools), find the lead math teacher or math
department head, or principal . . . . . . and say
the magic words
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Id like to bring a turn-key project to your
classroom(s) that will support your content
standards. Ill provide the materials and the
people to put it on (or help put it on if you
will help us choose a topic that will really help
you with a unit. If youll assist us to put
this together all youll have to do is help with
classroom management. Well do the rest. This
never fails to connect you with teachers.
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The teacher will help you Brainstorm a topic
that will help him and interest his students.
Identify the content standards and lend you the
text they use in class. Coach you on what will
work with their students. Help you sell the
project to other teachers.
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See? I told you it was easy!
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Alignment with California Content Standards
The teacher will help you Brainstorm a topic
that will help him and interest his students.
Identify the content standards and lend you the
text they use in class. Coach you on what will
work with their students. Help you sell the
project to other teachers.
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Existing projects are exactly the same. Find the
school. Find the lead or department chair, or
principal (or someone they recommend) Ask for
their help. Tell them what youll do for them.
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Variation on a theme Teacher delivered project
Same process to create. Teachers manual that
clearly covers the material. Box of supplies they
will need. Offer an engineer volunteer in the
classroom.
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Creating your own project outline with
standards www.cteonline.org
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Creating your own project outline with
standards In California (but appropriate for
all) State Center Consortium www.statecenter.com
A standards based approach for . . . lots of
industries A phenomenal primer!
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Alignment with California Content Standards
Contact information Larry Loban Education
Entrepreneur for Engineering and
Technology Sacramento City Unified School
District Career Technical Preparation
Department 916-643-9208 larry-loban_at_sac-city.k12.c
a.us