Week 3 Assignment #2 P21 and Common Core Toolkit

                            Week#3 Assignment #2 P21 Common Core ToolKit

With the introduction of Common Core State Standard (CCSS) in 2010 a majority of states have agreed to a common baseline for academic knowledge and college readiness skills. Thus, the Partnership for 21st Century Skill(P21) has advocated for standards that adequately address core academic knowledge and complex thinking skills needed for life in 21st century. In order to succeed students will need to be assessed on creativity, innovation,communication, critical thinking,and digital citizenship. Teacher and educators will have the task of adjusting the way they traditionally assessed core subject by including more performance based assessments.
To meet the needs of students with various reading level teachers need to ensure assessment targets standards and that they are Responsive(inform curriculum and instruction), Flexible (adapted to students’ setting), Integrated(Both formative and Summative assessments), Informative(clear goals and objectives), Multiple methods( different assessments), communicated(transparency of data), technically sound(adjustment and accommodations are fair,valid and reliable), and systemic (balanced and inclusive). Moreover, these assessments must measure students’ creativity( creativity and innovation), Motivation(life and career skills), critical thinking skills, health literacy, global awareness,financial literacy,civic literacy and environmental literacy.