Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers. Common Core Open Resources. As the implementation of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) moves ever closer, debate over them certainly has not slowed, yet that does not mean that the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) and others, like the National Math and Science Initiative, aren’t doing their best to make resources available so that teachers will be prepared.
Here is their introduction to newly available resources: The tools you need to prepare for the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and the upcoming Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) assessments are now available to all educators. These free resources help implement the CCSS in your state and provide you with specific information to prepare teachers to equip students with the tools they’ll need to be successful on the PARCC assessments. To access these free resources, you will need to visit the website below, click on the “Get Free Resources” button, and create a free profile.
Mr. Bruce's History - TLH. Sourcing Primary Documents Primary sources/documents are the backbone of our understanding of history, snapshots of the past that have been left behind by those that experienced it.
In the same way you leave clues about the world around you with every text, photo, status update, so too have people in our past left the same clues. With so many types of artifacts, we group them into the following categories:Images, framework courtesy of the Thinking Like a Historian Framework by Bobbie Malone and Nikki Mandell through a joint effort by the Wisconsin Historical Society and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Common Core supporter: ‘I see the opportunity being squandered’ There is increasing criticism about the Common Core State Standards as they are being implemented around the country, including from supporters of the initiative.
Here’s one such piece, by Stephen Lazar, a founding teacher at Harvest Collegiate High School in New York City, where he teaches Social Studies. A National Board certified teacher, he blogs at Outside the Cave. Stephen is also one of the organizers of Insightful Social Studies, a grass roots campaign of teachers to reform the newly proposed New York State Social Studies standards. Wowzers, This is Cool! A veteran educator works hard to get the reaction to learning she was looking for all along.
A teacher for 40 years, Reed Howard worked hard to reach her students through engaging and interesting lessons all throughout those decades. Nonetheless, she found that she couldn’t reach every student the way she wanted to. The two companies her family has founded since then, Wowzers and their first education-based company, Brain Hurricane, were developed with the goal of engaging students and building a love of learning. “When we launched Wowzers in 2011, we wanted to use the latest adaptive, game-based technology to engage students, and help them learn at their own pace so they remained interested in math lessons, which can be particularly challenging for many students,” she explains.
“Each lesson on Wowzers is individualized to the student and scalable to students across the country, and we hope eventually students around the world.” Building Vocabulary Crucial to Common-Core Success, New Research Says - Curriculum Matters. Common Core State Standards in English spark war over words. Proponents of the new standards, including the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers, say U.S. students have suffered from a diet of easy reading and lack the ability to digest complex nonfiction, including studies, reports and primary documents.
That has left too many students unprepared for the rigors of college and demands of the workplace, experts say. The new standards, which are slowly rolling out now and will be in place by 2014, require that nonfiction texts represent 50 percent of reading assignments in elementary schools, and the requirement grows to 70 percent by grade 12.
Among the suggested nonfiction pieces for high school juniors and seniors are Alexis de Tocqueville’s “Democracy in America,” “FedViews,” by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco (2009) and “Executive Order 13423: Strengthening Federal Environmental, Energy, and Transportation Management,” published by the General Services Administration. Off the reading list. Common Core: Now What?:Making the Shifts. December 2012/January 2013 | Volume 70 | Number 4 Common Core: Now What?
Pages 24-27 Here we are at the end of 2012. Who would have thought just three years ago that education would be in the position that it is in today—that 46 states, three U.S. territories, and the District of Columbia would have voluntarily agreed to share a set of standards for English language arts and literacy and mathematics? One would be hard-pressed to identify another initiative that has a greater potential to affect the teaching and learning that take place in so many classrooms across the United States. That being said, the widespread adoption of the Common Core State Standards has, to date, done little to change education. The Best Articles Sharing Concerns About Common Core Standards. For the almost four years I’ve been writing blog, I’ve periodically my concerns about developing national standards.
I’ve feared that people were over-estimating its impact on the classroom (where, in fact, I think it’s more like callers to talk radio feeling like they’re actually doing something about a problem). And I’ve been concerned that it was a boondoggle for publishers and testing services salivating at the prospect of selling new textbooks and tests. But the Common Core Standards train has long left the station, and that fight is lost. However, we can still try to minimize its negative impact. To that end, I thought I’d bring together a few resources that I’ve found helpful in gaining an understanding of what Common Core might mean. Please feel free to additional suggestions. Response: Best Ways to Prepare Our Students for CCSS in Language Arts - Classroom Q&A With Larry Ferlazzo.
(This is the first post in a two-part series on this topic) Mary Lou Baker asked:
Learning Resource Metadata Initiative. Understanding Language’s New CCSS Unit for ELLs « Common Core and ELLs. Understanding Language’s December 6 webinar, presented by George Bunch, Susan Pimentel, Aída Walqui, Lydia Stack, and Martha Castellón, showcased the first of the Stanford University initiative’s curricular units for teachers to use in their classrooms. The official launch of the exemplar provides one example of what is possible when educators collaborate to design instruction that will help ELLs access the English Language Arts CCSS. The five-lesson middle school unit, called Persuasion Across Time and Space: Analyzing and Producing Persuasive Texts, was designed for ELLs at the intermediate level of English language development.
The unit builds upon existing research as well as the strong belief that ELLs bring many strengths to the classroom. The unit exemplifies the shifts of the English Language Arts CCSS by having students build background knowledge and vocabulary, read complex texts, cite evidence, write from sources, and build their knowledge through non-fiction. Future Plans. How to Adapt Lessons to Common Core State Standards.
Common Core standards–adopted in 46 states Common Core State Standards, proposed by the National Board of Governors and adopted by 46 states to date, provide a consistent, clear understanding of what students are expected to learn in the critical areas of math, science, language, reading, writing, so teachers and parents know what they need to do to help them.
The standards are designed to be robust and relevant to the real world, reflecting the knowledge and skills that our young people need for success in college and careers. The Most Useful Resources For Implementing Common Core — I Hope You’ll Contribute More. (NOTE: Readers have begun to contribute some excellent ideas in the comments. I’ll get around to adding them to the body of this post but, until then, be sure to review the comments, too!) I’m obviously not a real big fan of Common Core standards, and am a bit skeptical about its practical impact on what happens in the classroom. Library Of Congress Unveils Massive Common Core Resource Center.
The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) is here and teachers are trying to figure out how to best integrate it into their tried-and-true lessons. They’re struggling to integrate technology to best augment CCSS. They are in desperate need of classroom materials that they can trust. Like a superhero, the U.S. Library of Congress has just swooped in and unveiled an enormous new (and free!) Resource that’s all about the Common Core. 50 Important Links for Common Core Educators. Educators across the nation are working hard this summer to begin developing updated curricula that will fit into the new Common Core State Standards, which will be fully applied in 45 U.S. states (Texas, Alaska, Nebraska, Virginia, and Minnesota have opted out of statewide participation) by 2015.
Yet despite the hubbub about the new standards, which were created as a means of better equipping students with the knowledge they need to be competitive in the modern world, many teachers still have a lot of unanswered questions about what Common Core will mean for them, their students, and their schools. Luckily, the Internet abounds with helpful resources that can explain the intricacies of Common Core, offer resources for curriculum development, and even let teachers keep up with the latest news on the subject. We’ve collected just a few of those great resources here, which are essential reads for any K-12 educator in a Common Core-adopting state. eStandards. eStandards. Common Core Collection. Tools to assess knowledge and level of agreement Guiding Principles This document provides the unifying beliefs that address our collective approach to this issue. You may want to share these among the groups with whom you work to build a common sense of purpose.
Grounding Assumptions These documents provide the shared agreements across stakeholders groups about CCSS that address the technical side of CCSS. TheHuntInstitute. Achieving the Common Core. Common Core Standards. Internet Catalogue. Common Core Georgia Performance Standards (CCGPS) Common Core Hub Overview The Common Core Georgia Performance Standards (CCGPS) provide a consistent framework to prepare students for success in college and/or the 21st century workplace. These standards represent a common sense next step from the Georgia Performance Standards (GPS). Common Core Curriculum Maps. Using Complex Text in Science - CCSS-ELA Phase 2 Resources. Implementing the Common Core State Standards - Hillsborough, NC. Common Core State Standards.
Welcome to the Mathematics Assessment Project. News New – TRU Math: Teaching for Robust Understanding of Mathematics is a suite of tools for professional develompent and research - the alpha versions of these documents are available here… Making the connection: Common Core and National Educational Technology standards. 5 things you should know about Common Core standards. Common Core 360. Free 30-Day Trial Educator Effectiveness System.
Achievethecore.org. Class dissection: 'Lesson study' aims to improve teaching. In the sunlit library at Jorge Prieto Elementary on Chicago’s’ northwest side, an experiment is underway. A provisional classroom has been set up. A white board sits at the front of the room, and 20 eighth graders are seated at library tables. Math teacher Michael Hock is giving a lesson about the distributive property. Scattered throughout the room are some 30 other teachers.
Finland's Success Is No Miracle. January 12, 2012. Common-Core Standards Drew on Ideas from Abroad. Webinars.