How does the Common Core Standards Initiative impact the ABE professional? When – and how – will it be implemented in the ABE classroom? How do you prepare your students for the rigors of the Common Core Standards? Explore these questions and more as we crack open the Common Core Standards Initiative and discuss its impact on instruction, curriculum, professional development, and counseling in the ABE classroom.

Topics covered include:

• Review/Overview of the Common Core Standards
  • What are they
  • The 17 skills required for college and career readiness
  • The 7 tenets of the Common Core Standards
  • The history of the development of the standards
  • Why the standards were developed
  • Who drove the initiative
  • Where the standards have been adopted
• Language Arts
  • Areas addressed by the standards
  • Advances in language arts
  • Samples of test alignment with the standards
  • Sample performance tasks
• Mathematics
  • Areas addressed by the standards
  • Advances in mathematics
  • Samples of test alignment with the standards
  • Sample performance tasks
• The impact of the standards on the ABE classroom
  • Assessment
    • Challenges in aligning assessments to the Common Core Standards
    • Developing assessments that measure the Common Core Standards
    • New technologies in assessment and scoring
  • Curriculum
    • Publishers
    • Online curriculum
• Professional development resources for adult educators