Common-Core Writers Craft Curriculum Criteria Published Online: July 22, 2011 New guidelines on crafting curriculum materials for the common standards in English/language arts are reigniting debate about how to ensure a marketplace of good instructional materials for the new standards without crossing the line into telling teachers how to teach. The focal point of the conversations is a set of “publishers’ criteria” issued recently by the two lead writers of the English/language arts section of the common standards, which have been adopted by all but five states. Working under a contract with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, an avid backer of the standards, David Coleman and Susan Pimentel wrote a pair of documents highlighting the key ideas of the standards and describing the qualities of instructional materials they consider a faithful reflection of them. The criteria center on aspects of the standards that represent a significant shift. . The impetus behind the criteria, Ms. Validating Materials Teacher Training Linda P. Mr. Mr.
The University of Arizona - Institute for Mathematics & Education The Common Core State Standards in mathematics were built on progressions: narrative documents describing the progression of a topic across a number of grade levels, informed both by research on children's cognitive development and by the logical structure of mathematics. These documents were spliced together and then sliced into grade level standards. From that point on the work focused on refining and revising the grade level standards. The early drafts of the progressions documents no longer correspond to the current state of the standards. It is important to produce up-to-date versions of the progressions documents. This project is organizing the writing of final versions of the progressions documents for the K–12 Common Core State Standards.
Edmodo, Common Sense Launch Social Learning Digital Literacy Curriculum Digital Citizenship | News Edmodo, Common Sense Launch Social Learning Digital Literacy Curriculum By Tim Sohn09/19/12 A partnership created by Common Sense Media and social learning platform Edmodo is providing teachers with student activities designed to foster responsible use of social media and other technologies. Teachers who use Edmodo, which is free for teachers and students, have access to Common Sense Media lessons on cyberbullying, plagiarism, and Internet privacy. The digital literacy curriculum, provided by Common Sense Media, which is a nonprofit organization, is based on the GoodPlay Project at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and studies by Howard Gardner. According to the project's Web site, "We are investigating the ethical character of young people's activities in the new digital media, including online games, social networking sites, blogs, and other virtual communities. For more information, visit commonsense.org or edmodo.com. About the Author
Smarter Balanced Assessments The Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium is developing a system of valid, reliable, and fair next-generation assessments aligned to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) in English language arts/literacy (ELA/literacy) and mathematics for grades 3-8 and 11. The system—which includes both summative assessments for accountability purposes and optional interim assessments for instructional use—will use computer adaptive testing technologies to the greatest extent possible to provide meaningful feedback and actionable data that teachers and other educators can use to help students succeed. Smarter Balanced assessments will go beyond multiple-choice questions to include extended response and technology enhanced items, as well as performance tasks that allow students to demonstrate critical-thinking and problem-solving skills. Performance tasks challenge students to apply their knowledge and skills to respond to complex real-world problems. Assessment System Components Mathematics Guidelines
Writing from sources for the CC Writing is a love or hate affair for most people – for some it is both! No matter how you might feel about writing, there is one thing all teachers can agree upon: writing is an important skill that needs to be taught daily. Common Core State Standards require students to do more than just produce sentences or essays. In fact, by the fifth grade students are expected to “recall relevant information from experiences or gather relevant information from print and digital sources; summarize or paraphrase information in notes and finished work and provide a list of sources.” If students are expected to utilize and master this “W.5.8” Common Core State Standards, purposeful “listing of sources” instruction must begin in earlier grades. You are going to love how Studies Weekly writing prompts cover multiple skills and will help you get the most “bang for your classroom-time buck” every week! Visit www.StudiesWeekly.com for more information on the 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… More International Awards for Team: Hugh Burkhardt and Malcolm Swan, leaders of the Shell Centre team, have been chosen by the International Commission on Mathematical instruction (ICMI) as the first recipients of the Emma Castelnuovo Medal for Excellence in the Practice of Mathematics Education. The project is working to design and develop well-engineered assessment tools to support US schools in implementing the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics. Products Tools for formative and summative assessment that make knowledge and reasoning visible, and help teachers to guide students in how to improve, and monitor their progress. Classroom Challenges: lessons for formative assessment, some focused on developing math concepts, others on non-routine problem solving. The Team What's on this site?
What Do the Common Core State Standards Mean for History Teaching and Learning? John Lee, S.G. Grant, and Kathy Swan Social Studies Assessment, Curriculum, and Instruction Collaborative (SSACI) Read Excerpt The Common Core is only a first step. Stephen Lazar High School Teacher, Academy of Young Writers (Brooklyn, NY) These changes cannot be done to teachers, but rather must be accomplished through the collaboration of teachers, and their students. Sarah Drake Brown Assistant Professor of History, Director of History Department’s Teacher Education Program (Ball State University, IN) The language in the standards merely skims the surface of historical thinking, but the CC provides us with two key opportunities: to educate the public about what a vibrant history classroom looks like and to spearhead rigorous history teacher preparation. Katherine Suyeyasu Seventh- and Eighth-grade Teacher, Oakland Unified School District (Oakland, CA) Teachers need access to a wide range of historical writing models beyond those offered in history textbooks.
ELA Learning Targets IA Introduction This document serves as a common resource for schools to use in developing comprehensive and viable curriculum for all students based on the Common Core State Standards adopted by Indiana. The foundation for learning the Common Core State Standards for College and Career Readiness begins in primary years. Third grade students will be tested on the Common Core State Standards on a multi-state test developed by the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) consortium beginning in 2014-15. This curriculum map includes the Common Core State Standards which have been deconstructed into learning targets and grouped into quarters to create a learning progression for the standards. Written by teams of seventh grade teachers and literacy specialists, the learning targets provide a shared meaning of what needs to be taught to meet the full expectations of each standard and the steps it will take to achieve the standard.
Frayer Model The Frayer Model is a vocabulary development tool. In contrast with a straight definition, the model helps to develop a better understanding of complex concepts by having students identify not just what something is, but what something is not. The center of the diagram shows the concept being defined, while the quadrants around the concept are used for providing the details. Words that work well with the Frayer Model include quadrilaterals, insects and democracies. Resources for Implementation Sample curriculum framework documents District curriculum framework documents need to address the curriculum at different grain sizes to be effective, and the Charles A. Dana Center supports districts in creating such framework documents. Sampled below are three of the four types of curriculum framework documents on which we work. These documents represent our thinking about how the concepts and skills described in the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics might be developed across the course of a school year. Year-at-a-glance Year-at-a-glance documents show an overview of the mathematics through a year of instruction on one page. Sequenced Units Each of these documents shows the standards clustered into units, and suggests a sequence to the units. These documents are intended as a starting point for districts as they think about the design of their own courses. Elaborated Scope and Sequences www.agilemind.com.
Argument, Persasive writing ReadWriteThink couldn't publish all of this great content without literacy experts to write and review for us. If you've got lessons plans, videos, activities, or other ideas you'd like to contribute, we'd love to hear from you. More Find the latest in professional publications, learn new techniques and strategies, and find out how you can connect with other literacy professionals. More Teacher Resources by Grade Your students can save their work with Student Interactives. More Home › Classroom Resources › Lesson Plans Lesson Plan Overview Featured Resources From Theory to Practice In this lesson plan, students analyze World War II posters, chosen from online collections, to explore how argument, persuasion and propaganda differ. back to top Argument, Persuasion, or Propaganda? Visual texts are the focus of this lesson, which combines more traditional document analysis questions with an exploration of World War II posters. Further Reading National Council of Teachers of English. 1975.
Proving Parallelograms | BetterLesson Loading... Proving Parallelograms Objective: SWBAT prove that quadrilaterals are parallelograms using the definition of parallelogram and six key parallelogram property theorems. Stephanie Conklin 75 Lessons Big Idea: Two pair-share proofs await to challenge students in this lesson on proving that quadrilaterals are parallelograms. Give Stephanie some positive reinforcement Common Core: Subject(s): Math, Geometry 80 mins Do Now 10 min Students will use algebra skills and properties of parallelograms to find the measure of sides and angles in a given parallelogram. Resources (1) Resources (1) Do Now - Proving Parallelograms Vocabulary and Exploration 1 25 min Students with Disabilities: Visualizing Angles and Sides Play Current Time 0:00 Duration Time 0:00 Remaining Time -0:00 Loaded: 0% Progress: 0% Fullscreen Mute Resources (2) Vocab and Pair Share 1 Proving Paralleograms Complete Student Notes - Proving Paralleograms Resources (2) expand content Pair-Share 2 and Coordinate Proofs 30 min … Read more Resources (1) 15 min
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