CCS iPad Apps | Mentoring Minds $$ Mentoring Minds' Common Core Standards & Strategies K-12 Math and ELA Flip Charts on your iPad! Our Common Core Standards & Strategies K-12 Math and ELA Flip Charts are available on your iPad through the iTunes App Store! At your fingertips and through your mobile device, our flip chart provides you with strategies for the delivery of effective instruction pertaining to the new Math and ELA Standards. We also include clarifying activities so you know how best to utilize the content in your classroom. Enroll in Apple's Volume Purchase Program (ASVPP) to buy in bulk. Common Core Standards and Strategies Math K-12 Last Updated: August 17, 2012 Common Core Standards and Strategies ELA K-12 | Search Mentoring Minds on the App Store.
What should districts (states) do with PARCC? « PARCC in Massachusetts After listening and reflecting on the PARCC assessments with other teachers in Chicago, I believe the new tests do hold a number of promises worth considering. Much of the possibilities that technology delivered assessment will bring, I will focus on in-depth in a later post, but the fact that they are planned to be delivered via technology and that it is an assessment system really force districts (states) to think about what they should do with PARCC. However, I first want to address a few misconceptions. (NOTE: This post assumes that assessment is not the end toward which education is directed, but it is a component. Misconceptions The PARCC assessment is sometimes is simplified to just another test or is seen as a testing regimen that encroaches on classroom time and significantly expands the time spent on testing. 1. 2. 3. The second misconception is about time spent on assessment. The Potential Power of PARCC as an Assessment System 1. 2. 3. 4. Within Schools and Districts
ShowMe Interactive Whiteboard Parents' Guide to the CCSS Currently, each state has a separate set of education standards, lists of skills that students are expected to do by the time they graduate each grade. However, in response to concerns about American student achievement and just how prepared students are for college and careers, education leaders in 48 states, along with the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO), have written a set of standards for student across the U.S. The common core state standards were released in 2010. Now, 44 states are working to implement them by 2013-2014. Here’s what you should know and how to help your child prepare for the common core: The Common Core Standards are State-Driven The common core state standards are a set of learning skills that all American students should achieve, not a federal curriculum. The Standards are a Progression In general, standards set a progression of skills that students learn as they move through school. Focus on Informational Text
Common Core Online Implementation | Common Core State Standards | Topic Specific Sources | Web links | MC3 Register | Lost Password Skip to Content Follow us on Facebook ResourcesAbout MC3 Web links > Topic Specific Sources > Common Core State Standards > Implementation Common Core Implementation ExemplarsDate Added: July 24, 2013 Visits: 55 [ Report ] This Achieve document features state practices and models used with implementing the Common Core State Standards. Common Core Implementation WorkbookDate Added: February 6, 2013 Visits: 56 [ Report ] This link to the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers' (PARCC's) website provides an implementation workbook developed by Achieve and U.S. Common Core State Standards: Progress and Challenges in School Districts' ImplementationDate Added: June 10, 2013 Visits: 15 [ Report ] This link is to a Center on Education Policy report exploring the issues associated with implementing the Common Core State Standards. Common Core VideoDate Added: January 8, 2014 Visits: 98 [ Report ] Back to Top
CC Achievement Strategy Site Engage NY Videos on CC Education Commissioner John King, David Coleman and Kate Gerson explain every key aspect of Common Core standards in depth. By viewing this 15-part series, New York educators and administrators will learn step-by-step how to implement the Common Core for ELA/Literacy and Math in their schools and classrooms. You’ll also gain a deeper understanding of the rationale behind the Common Core and what it will mean for students across our state. Produced in partnership with NYS PBS stations WCNY/Syracuse and WNET/New York City, the series illuminates the Common Core through conversations between Commissioner King, a former high school social studies teacher and middle school principal; Coleman, a contributing author of the Common Core State Standards; and Gerson, a Senior Fellow with the USNY Regents Research Fund and a former high school English teacher and principal. Viewing the Videos The Common Core videos can be viewed online or downloaded from the links below for offline viewing.
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Tools for the Common Core Standards | News about tools that are being developed to support implementation of the Common Core State Standards PARCC Assessment System and ELA, Part 2 « PARCC in Massachusetts In Part 1 on the PARCC assessment system I tried to walk through, though somewhat briefly, a general sense of the design principles and the general architecture of the assessment system. In this post I am going to try to convey what I learned specifically about the design of the ELA assessment and review the general evidence-centered design principle. Below is the picture of evidence-centered design construction: Evidence-Centered Claims Driving Design of ELA Assessment The ELA assessment has a broad set of claims about what students should know and be able to do that should be supported by the evidence collected through the assessment tasks. (1) Students read and comprehend a range of sufficiently complex texts independently,(2) Students write effectively when using and or analyzing sources, and(3) Students build and present knowledge through research and the integration, comparison, and synthesis of ideas. Broad ELA/Literacy Task Types More on PARCC Tasks Like this: Like Loading...
EdWeek: Other Country's Schools For the Media Featured Stories American educators comb the data from school systems in other countries for clues to what might work closer to home. Concern over U.S. students' middling test scores vies with caution about cultural and other factors that shape school improvement. Why is it important to study schools from other countries? Prestige and respect, not just salary, prove crucial in assuring a truly professional teacher workforce. The right mix of content instruction and pedagogy is seen as crucial in preparing prospective teachers. Assessment looms large even beyond the U.S., while other accountability measures also flourish. Other nations' curricula and standards were important in putting crafting the learning goals most states have adopted. Immigration policies, culture, and other factors complicate efforts to help foreign-born students and those learning a new language. American policymakers examine how other nations invest in getting students ready for life after high school.