Bay Village, Rocky River schools among those preparing for Common Core, state learning standards. CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Changes due next year in classrooms across Ohio already have arrived on the West Shore.
In anticipation of new learning standards scheduled to be in place for the 2014-15 school year, school districts already have partially, or fully, phased in the standards. Those in English language arts and math are the result of a multi-state effort known as the Common Core. Ohio also has new, more rigorous state academic content standards in science and social studies. Bay Village began aligning its curriculum with the new learning standards after they were adopted by the state school board in 2010, said Char Shryock, director of curriculum and instruction for the Bay schools.
While the standards have their critics, supporters like Shryock say the aim is to produce students who are able to apply their knowledge to real-world situations, rather than memorizing facts for a test, parroting the answers and forgetting them once the exam is over. Thomas Alva Edison was an inventor. Student Self-Assessment and Skills Across Grades. One of the great parts of working with lots of smart, dedicated educators on a regular basis is the number of smart ideas and insights you share with us at trainings.
Recently, a teacher asked whether we had any self-assessment tools for students, developed from our The Common Core, Clarifying Expectations for Teachers and Students books. Although we haven't created an extensive resource with reproducibles, one of our primary literacy trainers recently developed a few examples self-checklists for a session in Tennessee that I thought you might find informative. The training focuses on diving deeper into the primary writing process and highlighting how skills relate and build between years. As teachers work through the complex process of developing little writers who will eventually write to argue, to inform, and to tell a story, they must build those skills straight away in Kindergarten. Resources & Downloads: Parent Roadmaps / Parent Roadmaps- English Language Arts. 7 Myths About Rigor In The Classroom. 7 Myths About Rigor In The Classroom by Barbara Blackburn, author of Rigor is not a 4-Letter Word Despite all the research, there are seven myths about rigor that are often heard.
6 Alternatives To Bloom's Taxonomy For Teachers - This post is updated from an article we published in April.
At the end of the day, teaching is about learning, and learning is about understanding. And as technology evolves to empower more diverse and flexible assessments forms, constantly improving our sense of what understanding looks like–during mobile learning, during project-based learning, and in a flipped classroom–can not only improve learning outcomes, but just might be the secret to providing personalized learning for every learner. This content begs the question: why does one need alternatives to the established and entrenched Bloom’s? Because Bloom’s isn’t meant to be the alpha and the omega of framing instruction, learning, and assessment.
So with apologies to Bloom (whose work we covered recently), we have gathered five alternatives to his legendary, world-beating taxonomy, from the TeachThought Simple Taxonomy, to work from Marzano to Fink, to the crew at Understanding by Design. Game Based Learners. Blended Learning. Bloom's Taxonomy vs. Norman Webb's depth of knowledge.
Webb's DOK Depth of Knowledge Vs.
Bloom's Taxonomy | Common Core PARCC Assessments and Webb's Depth of Knowledge (DOK) | Bloom's Taxonomy and Norman Webb's depth of knowledge PARCC The Common Core Standards are the cornerstones of the Smarter Balanced and PARCC assessments, Webb’s Depth of Knowledge (scale of cognitive demand) and Blooms Revised Taxonomy (levels of intellectual ability) are the framework and the structures that will be used to evaluate students. PARCC_SampleItems_ELA-Literacy_Grade6Items_081513_Final_0. 6 Alternatives To Bloom's Taxonomy For Teachers - 7 Myths About Rigor In The Classroom. Help. Teaching Online. Starry Night LEGO Mosaic. In the Spring of 2001, I created a large mosaic of one of my favorite paintings, Van Gogh's Starry Night.
The mosaic is made completely out of LEGO bricks and measures 45" (144 studs) wide by 36" (116 studs) tall. It took several months and approximately ten thousand bricks to complete. This is what the mosaic looked like immediately before I hung it up on my wall. Most of the mosaic is on six 15" square base plates, with three smaller 6" × 15" plates along the bottom. You can see several of my Blue Tubs as well, filled with sorted bricks waiting for my next project; whatever that may be. I started this project with only four Blue Tubs, each of which comes with 1,200 pieces, and quickly needed to buy four more.
These are the first two 15" × 15" panels hung up on the wall. Math Games - 10 Great iPhone/iPad Apps. Itching to use your iTunes gift cards on some iPhone/iPad apps?
How about some fun math games to keep the kiddos entertained while they learn math at the same time? Here are ten of my favorite math games! Toddler Counting – $0.99. A List of Great Math Apps for your iPad.