PBL Connection: To meet
the demands of the Common Core, teachers need a framework for designing units.
Part of the promise of the Common Core initiative was that the new standards would be joined by «next - generation» assessments — tests that match the intellectual
demands of the Common Core, are harder to game, and actually deserve to guide classroom instruction rather than encourage mindless test preparation.
As educators work to help students meet
the demands of the Common Core State Standards in English / language arts and mathematics, many arts education advocates are making the case that the arts can be a valuable partner.
Are better prepared to master complex academic content and meet the heightened
demands of the Common Core State Standards.
Tim Shanahan, the study's author and a former president of the International Reading Association, wrote that «these results reveal that many teachers have not yet confronted the new text complexity
demands of the Common Core.
Jacqueline Raphael and Rhonda Barton look closely at
the demands of the Common Core State Standards on student writing and show how a traits - based model for teaching writing can help educators meet...
Comprised of research - based teaching strategies and laid out like a road map, this lesson segment gives educators directions for moving classroom instruction towards rigor, to
the demands of Common Core State Standards, and toward preparation for CCSS's aligned assessments, such as PARCC and SBAC.
Develop strategies to master complex academic content, including the heightened
demands of the Common Core State Standards.
Through this webinar, participants will be able to understand the language
demands of Common Core mathematics by engaging in a mathematical task, identifying the language demands of the task, and determining literacy practices to equip ELLs to successfully complete the task.
As teachers struggle to work with the rigorous performance assessment
demands of the Common Core State Standards, a well - designed project can be the vehicle for highly authentic, rigorous, and personalized learning experiences for students.
In the third one - day institute series, Using Formative Assessment to Meet
the Demands of the Common Core, educators will learn how to align the multiple measures of assessment available with the CCSS and create a system of data collection and analysis to enable higher levels of student achievement.
The high
demands of Common Core Reading Standards necessitate higher expectations in the classroom regarding how students interact with text.
Remember, although the common core might tell us what to teach, it doesn't tell us how to teach it — and by focusing in on a few key strategies, you can attend to
the demands of the Common Core standards while keeping students at the center in your classroom.
By focusing in on a few key strategies, you can attend to
the demands of the Common Core while keeping students at the center of your classroom.
Jacqueline Raphael and Rhonda Barton look closely at
the demands of the Common Core State Standards on student writing and show how a traits - based model for teaching writing can help educators meet the challenge.
How can educators ensure that their teaching meets the rigorous
demands of the Common Core State Standards, so that all students are well prepared for college or careers?
Student - Engaged Assessment ignites the capacity of students to take responsibility for their own learning, building the independence, critical thinking skills, perseverance, and self - reflective understanding they need to meet
the demands of the Common Core, reach higher levels of achievement, and succeed in college, career and life.
Moving forward, Study Island will continue to keep up with
the demands of the Common Core.
With the new and rigorous
demands of the Common Core State Standards, I think it is imperative that schools identify the gaps and help students be successful.
The curriculum will focus on formative assessment practice to support the language
demands of the Common Core State Standards.
Kulkarni is on the staff of Student Achievement Partners, a group that supports teachers in adapting to the new
demands of the Common Core.
Sara currently focuses on facilitating collaboration between district leaders and national experts to design an EdLeader21 4Cs Performance Assessment System that meets
the demands of Common Core.
An effective secondary school design incorporates 10 integrated principles to meet
the demands of the Common Core.
Together, teachers are constructing more nuanced understandings of the new
demands of the Common Core State Standards in these areas and learning about what it takes to support their students throughout the developmental continuum.
But for the most part, on - the - job teacher training, which has long been criticized for its ineffectiveness, hasn't changed much in response to
the demands of the Common Core.
«The Biggest Classroom in the Building: Libraries Staffed with Certified Librarians in Many Schools Hold Unexploited Potential to Raise Achievement and Meet the More Rigorous
Demands of the Common Core.»
Not exact matches
Today's
demands for measurable childhood success — from the
Common Core to college placement — have chased household chores from the to - do lists
of many young people.
Anger and confusion over implementation
of the
Common Core standards, a set
of tougher curriculum guidelines for English and math, has led lawmakers to
demand change.
One - third
of voters think
Common Core standards are too
demanding, just over one - quarter feel they are not
demanding enough and just under one - quarter say standards are «about right.»
He was met with hundreds
of protestors
demanding changes to everything from gun laws to
common core.
Although new state tests will be rolled out this spring based on
demanding Common Core national standards, almost 8 out
of 10 New York City teachers surveyed said the city's Department
of Education has yet to address the new learning benchmarks, including failing to provide any curriculum or other instructional materials keyed to the new standards.
Addressing a question about how best to communicate
Common Core curriculum
demands to parents
of English language learners, Contreras plugged a SCSD program - «Parent University» - that helps parents understand how best to support their children.
These movements are challenging variations
of common lifts that increase
core stability and mobility
demands.
Though he sees potential in the «commonness»
of the
Common Core, he argues that true learning gains will only follow if states turn more
demanding ELA standards into a mandate for knowledge - rich curricula and if test makers understand that «close reading»
of texts could make things worse unless those texts are integrated with such a curriculum.
But we can expect, and
demand, that their preparation be based on a
common core of professional knowledge that practitioners can not do without.
They should
demand an acknowledgment from Duncan (making it easier for him to deliver that essential mea culpa), insist on safeguards regarding data collection and federal involvement, and seek clarity as to how governance
of the
Common Core and the assessments are going to be ordered so as to respect state sovereignty and guard against E.U. - style bureaucratic creep.
Thus, our proposal reflects the essence
of backward design: Conceptualize and construct the curriculum back from sophisticated «cornerstone» tasks, reflecting the performances that the
Common Core Standards
demand of graduates.
The success
of the Massachusetts approach has important implications, especially as states roll out the new
Common Core standards academic goals for what students should be able to do in reading and math at each grade level to ensure high school students graduate ready for the
demands of higher education and the 21st century workforce.
«
Common Core raises cognitive
demands and expectations for all students,» says Hahnel
of Education Trust - West.
The real value here is that if the SAT aligns more to the
common core, we won't be giving an assessment at the end
of K - 12 that's out
of kilter with what we
demand at the end
of the day.»
By marked contrast,
Common Core asks teachers to think carefully about what children read and choose grade - level texts that use sophisticated language or make significant knowledge
demands of the reader (teachers should also be prepared,
of course, to offer students support as they grapple with challenging books).
The authors
of Little to Gain would do early - childhood education a considerable service if instead they pushed aggressively for teacher education and professional development that enabled more teachers to meet
Common Core benchmarks with the teaching techniques they favor, not
demand that we «withdraw kindergarten standards from the
Common Core so that they can be rethought along developmental lines.»
One
of the most interesting points brought up from the
Common Core is that we must
demand appropriate Lexile scores to College and Career Readiness standards, as articulated by this chart:
Given the new
demands levied by the
Common Core standards, teammates and ’14 master's degree graduates Taylor Percival, Michelle Skinner, and Jessica Yarmosky are busy with CommonLit, a free online library for middle school teachers to help them easily find news articles, poetry, and other short texts aligned with the
Common Core curriculum that help build reading skills across a wide array
of abilities.
Though New York was the only state to spend the money it won from the federal Race to the Top competition to build a curriculum, its policymakers seem to have tapped a nerve — and a deep well
of demand for
Common Core - aligned materials far beyond their borders.
But Denver schools appear to have adjusted far better to the more
demanding,
Common Core aligned PARCC tests than schools in the rest
of the state.
The
Common Core State Standards are among the first standards to stress the crucial link between knowledge and reading comprehension — something that will, if faithfully implemented, force many teachers to rethink whether their preferred reading programs meet the content and rigor
demands of the CCSS.
It entails using a two - dimensional framework to compare how similar or different the
Common Core's topics and cognitive
demands are to those
of existing state standards.
Ze'ev Wurman:
Common Core standards may in fact be clearer and more
demanding than many, though not all,
of the state standards they replaced.
In this on -
demand webinar, two
of the people featured in this series — Dowan McNair - Lee, a middle - school teacher, and Brian Pick, a top curriculum official from the District
of Columbia schools — discuss how they are implementing the
Common Core State Standards in English / language arts.