From: Ellen Koivisto & Gene Thompson (offstage@earthlink.net)
Date: Wed Dec 17 2003 - 16:24:10 PST
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 16:24:10 -0800 Subject: Re: pinhole Earth Science CST test From: Ellen Koivisto & Gene Thompson <offstage@earthlink.net> Message-Id: <7FD172CC-30F0-11D8-BF8A-000A959C38A8@earthlink.net>
At School of the Arts in SF, we changed this year to Earth Science,
Chemistry, Biology, with Physics as a 4th year option. So far the
students seem to be doing well in the Earth Science. If you want to
talk to our teacher, email me directly (igneous@earthlink.net) and I'll
put you in contact with our Earth Science teacher for more direct info.
Ellen Koivisto
SOTA, SF
On Wednesday, December 17, 2003, at 11:04 AM, Melissa Hero wrote:
> My school (and district) are giving our freshman students the
> integrated 1 CST test this year. Our district is forcing us to do so
> - so that our students don't receive the baseline score of 200. Our
> freshman course doesn't match with the standards, so we are changing
> our curriculum until the test.
>
> Next year we have 3 options, teach integrated 1 (which we do not
> favor), put all of our freshmen in biology (again this isn't the best
> idea), or have a new class that is a standards based class that has a
> test that directly correlates with it.
>
> I was thinking Earth Science. I taught that in Vacaville to freshman.
> But people here in the bay area say that the Earth Science CST is at
> an 11th grade reading level. I didn't notice that 2 years ago in
> Vacaville. The students didn't seem to have problems with the reading
> level.
>
> I have tried looking in the standards, the framework, and on the cde
> webpage and couldn't find anything to support this. The framework
> says that the content strands for high school can be taken any year in
> high school, it is up to the school or district.
>
> Does anyone have any info on this? Is it true that the Earth Science
> CST reading level is too hard for 9th graders? Does anyone teach
> freshmen earth science? What have you noticed?
>
> Thank you!
> Melissa
>
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