blog post earlier this week entitled, «Malloy / Pryor
Common Core Strategy — Hey, but we've got some computers!»
post earlier this month entitled, «Malloy / Pryor
Common Core Strategy — Hey, but we've got some computers!»
Not exact matches
When Usable Knowledge launched in September — with a handful of stories focused on the
Common Core, how teachers can make caring more common, and the best strategies to expand high - quality early education, among others — we had no idea what the response mig
Common Core, how teachers can make caring more
common, and the best strategies to expand high - quality early education, among others — we had no idea what the response mig
common, and the best
strategies to expand high - quality early education, among others — we had no idea what the response might be.
One of the most familiar complaints about
Common Core math references the «new» or «different»
strategies used to solve problems.
Dec. 4, 2 p.m. ET:
Common Core State Standards: Literacy and English - Language Learners As educators begin putting the common core into classroom practice, what instructional strategies will they need to bridge the gap between acquiring language and truly mastering academic content for
Common Core State Standards: Literacy and English - Language Learners As educators begin putting the common core into classroom practice, what instructional strategies will they need to bridge the gap between acquiring language and truly mastering academic content for E
Core State Standards: Literacy and English - Language Learners As educators begin putting the
common core into classroom practice, what instructional strategies will they need to bridge the gap between acquiring language and truly mastering academic content for
common core into classroom practice, what instructional strategies will they need to bridge the gap between acquiring language and truly mastering academic content for E
core into classroom practice, what instructional
strategies will they need to bridge the gap between acquiring language and truly mastering academic content for ELLs?
However, the
common core deliberately leaves out specific instructional
strategies to help students meet those standards, and researchers say they will have to hustle to develop best practices for teachers.
Beside focusing on developing communication and reading skills, Marilee Sprenger — an expert in brain - based instructional
strategies and author of Teaching the Critical Vocabulary of the
Common Core — recommends that ELLs learn high - frequency academic language terms that are embedded in the
Common Core State Standards.
The book demonstrates how to use the Six Thinking Hats, Questivities, and other
strategies to spice up
Common Core and provides step - by - step projects and lessons.
In every class, both
core and elective curriculum, Trinidad Garza uses the six
strategies from the
Common Instructional Framework — collaborative group work, literacy groups, scaffolding, writing to learn, questioning, and classroom talk — to align their instruction, create a rigorous environment, and foster students who take ownership of their learning.
If close reading becomes de facto reading instruction — if it becomes just another iteration of the knowledge - free, mind - numbing skills - and -
strategies approach of the past several decades — it will be fatal not just to
Common Core, but to reading itself.
«The whole controversy about the
Common Core and the assessments risks becoming an enormous distraction from the much more difficult work, the central education reform work of devising effective
strategies for educating children to higher levels,» says Reville.
Finally, and importantly, many district leaders are using
Common Core implementation to innovate their assessment
strategies by focusing on performance assessment.
Thankfully, this information has led to the development of brain - compatible
strategies to help students through the bleak terrain created by some of the current trends imposed by the
Common Core State Standards and similar mandates.
Second, without
Common Core — aligned summative data, districts don't know whether their implementation
strategies are effective on a school - and district - wide scale.
If you believe autonomy, cooperation, and some degree of commitment are necessary to make things like the
Common Core, School Improvement Grants, or teacher evaluation deliver (and I do), then this is a
strategy that ensures lots of troubled implementation and disappointing outcomes.
More focused instructional and teacher quality
strategies — like implementing the
Common Core standards or improving teaching through better evaluation systems — are more likely to result in big gains, it seems to me.
Yesterday, I noted a few worrisome signs that the
Common Core effort is moving forward with a lack of attention to how it may clash with other practical considerations or improvement
strategies.
Then, nearly a decade ago, he became commissioner in Massachusetts, where he embraced the
Common Core, revamped teacher evaluation, and championed turnaround
strategies for some of the state's most - challenged districts.
Great for
common core language arts lessons ~ daily 5, rhyming, concepts of print, reading
strategies, independent reading, retelling, and sequencing, Great for PreK, kindergarten, and 1st grade.
What are your most effective instructional
strategies for helping ELLs meet the
Common Core Writing Standards?
Peer review is one collaborative writing
strategy that can assist students in achieving a number of the
Common Core Standards, including the one stating that students will improve their writing by «revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach.»
The lesson plan and set of resources for «How I Spent My Summer Vacation» focuses on Suffix - ly and includes the following: Lesson Plan Interactive Activity Practice Page Independent Word Work This set of resources also includes the following: Running Record Assessment
Common Core Aligned Comprehension Assessment Answer Keys
Common Core State Standard Alignment Spanish translation of the comprehension
strategy practice pages, reader's notebook prompts (complete with Spanish
Common Core «I Can» statements), and extension activities for use with How I Spent My Summer Vacation BONUS: Surprise Sample Resource I hope that you will enjoy using my resources along with your copy or copies of «How I Spent My Summer Vacation» by Mark Teague.
The lesson plan and set of resources for «Miss Nelson is Missing» focuses on Long and Short Vowel Sounds and includes the following: - Lesson Plan - Interactive Activity - Practice Page - Independent Word Work This set of resources also includes the following: - Running Record Assessment - Answer Keys -
Common Core State Standard Alignment - Spanish translation of the comprehension
strategy practice pages, reader's notebook prompts (complete with Spanish
Common Core «I Can» statements), and extension activities for use with «Miss Nelson is Missing» - BONUS: Surprise Sample Resource I hope that you will enjoy using my resources along with your copy or copies of «Miss Nelson is Missing» by Harry Allard.
The lesson plan and set of resources for «Little Blue Truck» focuses on Onomatopoeia and includes the following: Lesson Plan Interactive Activity Practice Page Independent Word Work This set of resources also includes the following: Running Record Assessment
Common Core Aligned Comprehension Assessment Answer Keys
Common Core State Standard Alignment Spanish translation of the comprehension
strategy practice pages, reader's notebook prompts (complete with Spanish
Common Core «I Can» statements), and extension activities for use with Little Blue Truck BONUS: Surprise Sample Resource I hope that you will enjoy using my resources along with your copy or copies of «Little Blue Truck» by Alice Schertle.
The first excerpt from our book reviewed the
Common Core Writing Standards and offered general
strategies for teachers of English - language learners.
I've written eight books: Navigating The
Common Core With English Language Learners (with co-author Katie Hull Sypnieski); Building A Community Of Self - Motivated Learners:
Strategies To Help Students Thrive In School and Beyond; Classroom Management Q&A s: Expert
Strategies for Teaching; Self - Driven Learning: Teaching
Strategies For Student Motivation; The ESL / ELL Teacher's Survival Guide (with co-author Katie Hull Sypnieski); Helping Students Motivate Themselves: Practical Answers To Classroom Challenges; English Language Learners: Teaching
Strategies That Work; and Building Parent Engagement In Schools (with co-author Lorie Hammond).
Michelle Cahill, vice president of national programs for the Carnegie Corporation of New York, discussed
strategies toward transformative change, including the development and implementation of
Common Core Standards at the Askwith Forum on October 23.
Part 1 of this series describes the
Common Core Writing Standards and shares general
strategies that ELL teachers can use to meet them.
Here's a plan to put a hopeful message in a bottle for the summer of 2015: America Achieves and the Center for Education Policy Research (CEPR) would work with the America Achieves to design a teacher survey asking about the
Common Core implementation identified treatments and other
strategies (e.g., instructional coaching using digital video captured by coached teachers, a specific textbook or curriculum, supplemental programs for students, etc.) their school is using, and a principal survey asking about similar topics.
Attendees will also learn how RTI and data - driven
strategies can be used in the implementation of the
common core.
This webinar will bring together two math - education experts immersed in teacher training who will discuss the
strategies districts can use to help their teachers understand and implement the
common -
core math standards at the elementary level.
Webinar participants will learn about the wealth of information well - crafted assessments can reveal, and will gain insights into how districts of all sizes can use assessment
strategies, tools, and services to improve student outcomes and prepare for the
Common Core State Standards.
Each
strategy is
Common Core - aligned and includes a special note about English language learners and connections to anti-bias education.
In his speech to principals in New York City,
Common Core author David Coleman presented the new standards as an antidote to the leveled - instruction, skills - and -
strategies approach to education.
One of the main goals of the English Language Arts
Common Core Standards is to build natural collaboration and discussion
strategies within students, helping to prepare them for higher levels of education and collaboration in the workforce.
With the adoption of the
Common Core standards by 43 states, the nation's schools have embarked on one of the most ambitious reform
strategies in the post-World War II era.
These Learning Plans reflect backward design, combining the Teaching Tolerance Social Justice Standards,
Common Core - aligned literacy
strategies and student performance tasks with windows - and - mirrors texts from the Perspectives library.
1)
Common Core is important because it is a gigantic distraction from other productive reform
strategies.
[24] James Stergios, «We Now Have a Smart Exit
Strategy from
Common Core,» Pioneer Institute, August 27, 2014, http://pioneerinstitute.org/news/we-now-have-a-smart-exit-
strategy-from-
common-
core/ (accessed September 16, 2015); Lindsey Burke, «A National Education Standards Exit
Strategy for States,» Heritage Foundation WebMemo No. 3437, December 21, 2011, http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2011/12/a-national-education-standards-exit-
strategy-for-states.
This engaging session provides participants with practical
strategies that will prepare students for the
Common Core and other assessments.
Before
Common Core, teachers in Reno used what they call a «skills and
strategies» approach to teaching.
Handling this situation effectively and calmly requires two things: 1) a clear understanding of why the scores have decreased; and 2) specific
strategies to explain the
Common Core assessment shifts to the community.
Preparing Adolescent English Learners (ELs) for the
Common Core: Practical
Strategies for Tackling Complex Texts (B - 1)
The Higher Achievement Evaluation will examine whether out - of - school programs can help students meet the new
Common Core standards by pairing an analysis of Higher Achievement's impact on academics with an examination of program fidelity, service contrast, and the extent to which mentors» instruction supports
Common Core Common practices, standards, and learning
strategies.
Understand the role of close reading
strategies and how it relates to the
Common Core standards
A final note is that planning and research for the communication
strategies and tactics for implementation of the
Common Core is provided by NSPRA with assistance of a planning grant from the Pearson Education Foundation.
Each
Common Core - aligned
strategy includes explicit connections to anti-bias education and adaptations for English language learners.
Whole class discussions are, after lecture, the second most frequently used teaching
strategy, one mandated by the
Common Core State Standards because of its many rewards: increased perspective - taking, understanding, empathy, and higher - order thinking, among others.
As part of their efforts to help students meet the
Common Core State Standards, adopted in 43 states including California, teachers in Santa Ana and elsewhere throughout California are increasingly turning to the
strategy of «project - based learning» as exemplified in Siebert's raft - building exercise.
strategies for teaching math and English language arts aligned to the
Common Core standards and the state ’s