Academic Language and Literacy Development | Co... Video Teaching in the Core. Periodic-Table.png 720×540 pixels. Education Week. I'll begin posting new questions and answers in late August, and during the summer will be sharing thematic posts bringing together responses on similar topics from the past two years. You can see those collections from the first year here Today, though, I thought readers might be interested in seeing this school year's 10 most popular posts.
You can also see a list of the most popular posts from the 2012 calendar year here and from the 2011 calendar year here. I'll be spending the summer organizing questions and answers for the next school year, and there is always room for more! You can send questions to me at lferlazzo@epe.org.When you send it in, let me know if I can use your real name if it's selected or if you'd prefer remaining anonymous and have a pseudonym in mind. You can also contact me on Twitter at @Larryferlazzo. Anyone whose question is selected for this weekly column can choose one free book from a variety of education publishers. Here are this year's 10 most popular posts: Common Core — Meeting the English Language Arts Standards and Content Literacy Demands of the Common Core. Five Questions to Ask about the Common Core* If you are reading this, you know the world didn’t end in 2012. But the world of American education may end in 2014, when the Common Core is scheduled to march into thousands of schools in the United States and end a “chaotic, fragmented, unequal, obsolete, and failing” system that has accompanied the rise of a nation with the largest economy, most scientific discoveries and technological inventions, best universities, and largest collection of Nobel laureates in the world today.
In place will be a new world of education where all American children are exposed to the same content, delivered by highly standardized teachers, watched over by their equally standardized principals, and monitored by governments armed with sophisticated data tools. The Bet The Common Core State Standards provide a consistent, clear understanding of what students are expected to learn, so teachers and parents know what they need to do to help them.
Questioning the Bet What makes one globally competitive? Pink, D. Flipping Out Videos For Your Classroom. 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. Groups and Organizations Useful Resources. Blog Teaching the Core -- A Regular Teacher Blogging through the Common Core State Standards and Beyond. 7 C's of Teacher Effectiveness - Inside School Research. Vancouver, B.C. The massive Measures of Effective Teaching Project is finding that teacher effectiveness assessments similar to those used in some district value-added systems aren't good at showing which differences are important between the most and least effective educators, and often totally misunderstand the "messy middle" that most teachers occupy.
Yet the project's latest findings suggest more nuanced teacher tests, multiple classroom observations and even student feedback can all create a better picture of what effective teaching looks like. Researchers dug into the latest wave of findings from the study of more than 3,000 classes for a standing-room-only ballroom at the American Educational Research Association's annual conference here on Saturday. "The middle is a lot messier than a lot of state policies would lead us to believe," Cantrell said. (A note of disclosure: the Gates foundation also supports some coverage of education innovation and industry in Education Week.)
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Best Web Writing 2012. The heaven of Dante’s Divine Comedy is, like purgatory and Hell before it, divided into nine different regions. When he gets to the first sphere, he asks the first soul he meets a question: how can there be different levels of heaven when it’s supposed to be paradise for all? Her answer, I think, explains the idea of heaven more fully than any of the celestial fireworks that Dante spends the rest of the Comedy describing.
Not all souls in heaven are worthy of the same amount of grace and proximity to God, she says, due to a variety of reasons (earthly imperfections or being associated with a slightly-less-superior virtue). Nevertheless, each soul is filled according to its capacity nonetheless, and therefore each is equally, which is to say completely, content. I find this so powerful an image because I know only too well what it feels like to be mostly content—to know that perfection is just out of reach, over the horizon, at the end of one more task. Egotistical? You bet. . — Jane Hu. CCSS-Cheat-Sheet-Learning-Unlimited-by-Kimberly-Tyson.pdf. Video ELA Common Core plus Appendix ABCand Literacy in the Content Areas.
WestEd Improving education through research, development, and service. Menu Bookstore & Resources Login / Create AccountBookstore Search More Options Overview of the California English Language Arts Common Core and Literacy in the Content Areas By Carrie Roberts, Barbara Murchison Produced by SchoolsMovingUp at WestEd out of 5 0 Customer Reviews View Online / PDFFree Download Description Learn about California’s Common Core State Standards (CCSS) in English language arts and literacy, and resources for implementing these standards. This archived webinar includes: An overview of the Common Core State StandardsResearch supporting key elements of the English language arts standardsTest exemplarsWriting arguments in content areasCCSS and the instructional shifts required to successfully support student attainment of the standards Related Resources Customer Reviews Write A Review Reviews There are no reviews yet, would you like to submit yours?
Product Information Audience AdministratorsTeacher EducatorsTeachers. Livebinder of ELA Common Core State Standards Resources. PARCC's Evidence Based Selected Response (EBSR): Is it Complex or Just Poorly Written? #ccss #ccchat #PARCCELC | Common Core Online. Optimizing Young Readers' Brains: Lessons from Neuroscience. Published Online: November 14, 2012 By Wendi Pillars "I wish you to grasp not only at what you read but at the miracle of its being readable. "—Vladimir Nabokov If educational psychologist Daniel Willingham had his way, most teachers would leave the neuroscience to the neuroscientists.
Sure, a little neuroscientific knowledge can be dangerous and lead to instructional malpractice. Lately, I've been exploring the science of reading. Neuromyths: He's a Right-Brained Kid, She's a Visual Learner In the past few decades, teachers have often been advised that individual students can only succeed when they are taught in particular ways. Today's neuroscientists refer to this way of thinking as dichotomania because it perpetuates false dichotomies. But here's the thing: The functions of each hemisphere are not exclusive to one side. Reading: One of the Most Complex Things We Do Neuroimaging provides us with new windows to observe the rich activity throughout the brain. And these connections? 1. 2. Cutting to the Common Core: Communicating on the Same Wavelength. Kate Kinsella offers strategies to prepare adolescent English Learners for the cultural and linguistic demands of academic interactions The Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts (CCSS, 2010) articulate detailed grade-level expectations in the areas of reading, writing, speaking, and listening to prepare all students to be college and career ready, including English Learners (ELs).
Major shifts include a focus on rigorous analysis of informational text, and evidence-based argumentation in formal presentation and writing. Equally emphasized is participation in academic discourse and collaboration with partners, as well as small and large groups. The prominent role of social interactional skills coincides with the initiative’s aim to equip secondary school graduates for a more globally networked higher education arena, workplace, and marketplace. The scores of U.S. Administering this survey to numerous classes, I have identified a number of trends as well as surprises. 2. 3. CCSS Tips Developmental Studies Center. Express 8.05 - Implementing the Common Core Mathematical Practices. PARCCMCFMathematicsNovember2012V3_FINAL. :The Tri-State Rubric PARCC in MA. Districts are moving at different speeds with adoption of the standards, but many are now seriously considering how to look through their lessons and align, revise or redesign them either for the first time or for the second or third time to the Common Core State Standards.
One of the many great tools that are available to teachers is the tri-state rubric jointly developed by Rhode Island, New York, and Massachusetts. This tool is a real asset for teachers, coaches, administrators, and those that evaluate/purchase resources for the following reasons: 1. A common rubric that norms discussions around the same language and criteria.2. This tool and the criteria within it can be used in a variety of ways and I see it playing it out in at least a couple of the following: 1. Obviously there are many ways to use the rubric, but it is a tool that is a crucial component for those transitioning from standards to instruction. The Rubrics Themselves: Understanding Quality Like this: Like Loading... Updates On Common Core Resources & On The “Next Generation” Of Tests.