Transcript The Alignment of the California Preschool Learning Foundations with Key Early Education Resources September 18th, 2012 3-4 p.m. Presenters: Cecelia Fisher-Dahms Peter Mangione Osnat Zur This presentation is.

The Alignment of the California Preschool Learning
Foundations with Key Early Education Resources
September 18th, 2012
3-4 p.m.
Presenters:
Cecelia Fisher-Dahms
Peter Mangione
Osnat Zur
This presentation is drawn from a project of the California
Department of Education, Child Development Division
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A Comprehensive Look at Alignment
Alignment of the Preschool Foundations with:

California’s Infant Toddler Learning and Development
Foundations

Kindergarten Content Standards

Kindergarten Common Core Standards

Head Start Child Development and Early Learning
Framework
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The Purposes of Alignment:
 Make connections between the preschool foundations
and the standards in other resources
 Show the developmental progression in different
domains along a continuum:
 Infant/toddler - Preschool- Kindergarten
 Inform and guide the planning and development of
curriculum and assessment materials
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Alignment of the California Preschool
Learning Foundations with the Common
Core State Standards
The Preschool Learning Foundations
Goal: To strengthen preschool education and children’s school readiness
 Developed by researchers, early childhood educators, and other
stakeholders.
 Age Range: Describe key knowledge and skills that children
acquire with appropriate support
 At around 48 months of age
 At around 60 months of age
 Cover nine developmental domains
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Preschool Learning Foundations
Preschool Learning Foundations,
Preschool Learning Foundations,
Preschool Learning Foundations,
Volume 1
Volume 2
Volume 3
History-Social Science
Science
Social-Emotional Development
Visual and Performing Arts
Language and Literacy
Physical Development
English-Language Development
Mathematics
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The Common Core State Standards
Goal: Clear and consistent goals for learning, to prepare America’s
children for success in college and work
 Led by the National Governors Association (NGA), and the Council of
Chief State School Offices (CCSSO), and developed in collaboration
with a variety of stakeholders
 Age Range: Standards for every grade level (K-12th grade)
 Domains:
 English-Language Arts & Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science,
and Technical Subjects.
 Mathematics
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The Alignment
 Draws the connection between the preschool
learning foundations in the domains:
 Language and Literacy
 Mathematics
 and the corresponding common core state
standards.
 Illustrates the developmental progression of key
foundations in these domains, as they relate to
specific common core state standards
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Domain: Language and Literacy
Alignment of the Preschool Learning Foundations
and the Kindergarten Common Core State
Standards
Language and Literacy
Alignment at Strand Level:
Preschool Foundations
 Listening and Speaking
 Reading
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 Writing
Common Core Standards-KG
 Speaking and Listening
 Language Standards
 Reading Standards for
Literature
 Reading Standards for
Informational Texts
 Reading Standards:
Foundational Skills
 Writing Standards
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Language and Literacy
Alignment Analysis:
 Substantial correspondence in content between the
preschool foundations and the common core state standards in all
areas
 Certain common core standards focus on skills that
emerge in kindergarten, and therefore have no corresponding
content in the preschool foundations:
 Reading
 Fluency (Read text with purpose and understanding)
 Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity
 Writing
 Production and Distribution of Writing
 Research to Build and Present Knowledge
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Developmental Progression Across Age-Levels
Example: Concepts about Print
Preschool Foundations
Common Core Standards-K
At around 60 months
Concepts about Print
1.1 Display appropriate
book-handling behaviors
and knowledge of print
conventions.
1.2 Understand that print is
something that is read and
has specific meaning
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Print Concepts
1. Demonstrate understanding of the
organization and basic features of
print.
 Follow words from left to right,
top to bottom, and page by page.
 Recognize that spoken words are
represented in written language by
specific sequences of letters.
 Understand that words are
separated by spaces in print.
Domain: Mathematics
Alignment of the Preschool Learning Foundations
and the Kindergarten Common Core State
Standards
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Mathematics
Alignment at Strand Level:
Preschool Foundations Common Core Standards-K
 Number Sense
 Counting and Cardinality
 Operations and Algebraic Thinking
 Number and Operations in Base Ten
 Algebra and Functions
(Classification and Patterning)
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 Measurement and Data
 Measurement
 Measurement and Data
 Geometry
 Geometry
 Mathematical Reasoning
 Mathematical Practices
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Mathematics
Alignment at Strand Level:
 Even though the preschool foundations and the common core standards are
organized somewhat differently, overall, both cover the same key areas in
mathematics.
 Differences in organization:
 Content related to number sense in the preschool learning foundations is
represented in two key area in the common core state standards: counting and
cardinality, and operations and algebraic thinking.
 Content in number and operations in base ten of the Common Core State
Standards is too advanced for it to have corresponding content in the preschool
foundations.
 Content related to Classification appears under algebra and function in the
preschool foundations, and under measurement and data in the Common
Core State Standards.
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Mathematics
Alignment at Substrand Level:
 For almost every substrand of the preschool learning
foundations, there is a category in the common core state
standards with corresponding content.
 The Common Core State Standards
 Include differentiated standards in mathematical reasoning
 Do not include standards related to patterning, subitizing
(number sense), and measuring length (measurement).
 Developmental progression across age-levels in every
substrand
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Developmental Progression Across Age-Levels
Example: Number Sense (Counting)
Preschool Foundations
At around 60 months
 1.1 Recites numbers in order
to twenty with increasing
accuracy.
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Common Core Standards- K
Know number names
and the count
sequence
 Count to 100 by ones and
by tens.
 Count forward beginning
from a given number
within the known sequence
(instead of having to begin
at 1).
In Summary,
 The alignment indicates substantial correspondence in content
between the preschool learning foundations and the common
core state standards.
 The two documents cover the same key areas in language &
literacy and in mathematics, even when the content is organized
somewhat differently in the preschool foundations and in the
common core standards.
 The alignment illustrates a developmental progression across
age-levels, and the differentiation of competencies as children
learn and develop.
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