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Common Core: Now What?:Making the Shifts December 2012/January 2013 | Volume 70 | Number 4 Common Core: Now What? Pages 24-27 Here we are at the end of 2012. Who would have thought just three years ago that education would be in the position that it is in today—that 46 states, three U.S. territories, and the District of Columbia would have voluntarily agreed to share a set of standards for English language arts and literacy and mathematics? One would be hard-pressed to identify another initiative that has a greater potential to affect the teaching and learning that take place in so many classrooms across the United States.
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.
Common Core 360 Free 30-Day Trial Educator Effectiveness System Common Core 360™is the only training tool that will help every teacher in your school or district integrate the Common Core with fidelity in the very first year of implementation. With hundreds of videos, case studies, and footage of real Common Core classrooms, Common Core 360 places you right in the middle of schools and classrooms that are doing the day-to-day implementation of the Common Core Standards. You can receive access to the growing Common Core 360 library and watch training segments and access other content that outlines the foundations, goal, and vision of the Common Core Standards. When you register for your free license, you will gain a free, lifetime membership to the PD 360 community, the world’s largest online PLC with over one million verified educators.
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 New Common Core and Essential Standards Align Teaching and Learning to Career and College Readiness As North Carolina public school students return to school for the 2012-13 year, teachers are preparing new lessons and new teaching strategies to match new teaching and learning standards in every grade and every subject. This is the first time that North Carolina has implemented a completely revised Standard Course of Study in all areas and grades at once. North Carolina teachers and students in kindergarten through 12th grade will follow Common Core state standards in mathematics and language arts. In other subjects, the state's own revised Essential Standards will be their guide.
Reform to support Common Core If the Common Core initiative is to have a chance to take off, a new strategy of professional development, coupled with thoughtful evaluation is necessary. This is according to Peter Youngs, writing under the auspices of the Center for American Progress. This new strategy requires reform of the current system of teacher evaluation and needs the buy-in of principals and other school leaders. In the introduction to the report, Youngs provides the following background: The Common Core State Standards Initiative, in its aim to align diverse state curricula and improve educational outcomes, calls for K-12 teachers in the United States to engage all students in mathematical problem solving along with reading and writing complex text through the use of rigorous academic content. Until recently, most teacher evaluation systems in this country did not measure or promote the ability of teachers to practice in these ways.
illustrativemathematics Illustrated Standards Count to 100 by ones and by tens. (see illustrations) Count forward beginning from a given number within the known sequence (instead of having to begin at 1). (see illustrations) Write numbers from 0 to 20. Class dissection: 'Lesson study' aims to improve teaching In the sunlit library at Jorge Prieto Elementary on Chicago’s’ northwest side, an experiment is underway. A provisional classroom has been set up. A white board sits at the front of the room, and 20 eighth graders are seated at library tables.
: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. Carefully constructed criteria that develop and isolate the key instructional shifts that are embodied in the Common Core.3.
Number Sense - ChildrensPictureBooks.Info Bears Odd, Bears Even by Harriet Ziefert An easy-to-read mathematics book teaches the concept of odd and even through an amusing and colorful tale of bears playing a game of basketball. Even Steven and Odd Todd by Kathryn Cristaldi The arrival of Cousin Odd Todd greatly upsets Even Steven who likes everything to come in even numbers, his pets, his library books, and even his pancakes. Common Core State Standards Initiative We have a lot to say about CCSSI’s treatment of fractions, which starts tentatively with 1.G.3, but we’ll initially hone in on Grade 3, which is where Common Core begins its big push. We’ll discuss Common Core’s sequence, and compare or contrast it to our own preferences for how fraction concepts should be introduced, and if we differ, provide a (hopefully justified) rationale for our choices.3.NF.1 states, ``Understand a fraction 1/b as the quantity formed by 1 part when a whole is partitioned into b equal parts; understand a fraction a/b as the quantity formed by a parts of size 1/b.’’Certainly when formally introducing fractions and fraction notation, understanding the meaning of a fraction comes first. In 3.NF.1, though, CCSSI is already on the wrong track, for it assumes fractions only refer to parts of whole objects. Students in Grade 3 already understand cardinality, so using counting as an entry point into fractions makes sense, but Common Core ignores this obvious segue. 3.
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. This complements the award by ICMI to Alan Schoenfeld of the 2011 Felix Klein Medal for Lifetime Achievement in research.
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." Common Core State Standards 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 ]