Nearpod Socrative Student Clicker - Socrative for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch on the iTunes App Store Metryx | Track | Analyze | Differentiate Explain Everything ™ Follett Destiny for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch on the iTunes App Store The Times and the Common Core Standards: Reading Strategies for 'Informational Text' Update | Sept. 2012: We’ll be exploring the new Common Core State Standards, and how teaching with The Times can address them, through a series of blog posts. You can find them all here, in the lesson plan category “Common Core.” Forty-four states and United States territories have adopted the Common Core Standards and, according to this recent Times article, one major change teachers can expect to see is more emphasis on reading “informational,” or nonfiction, texts across subject areas: While English classes will still include healthy amounts of fiction, the standards say that students should be reading more nonfiction texts as they get older, to prepare them for the kinds of material they will read in college and careers. In the fourth grade, students should be reading about the same amount from “literary” and “informational” texts, according to the standards; in the eighth grade, 45 percent should be literary and 55 percent informational, and by 12th grade, the split should be 30/70.
Knowledge Building Centers - learningcommons Knowledge building is a central focus of the learning commons program. The program of the learning commons is to use the power of information and technology, the physical space of the learning commons as an extension of the classroom, and the curriculum of the various classrooms, to push excellence in the school through effective collaboration. The emergence of collaborative technologies, the opening of quality information and multimedia resources, and quality instructional designs, allow classroom teachers new opportunities to develop super learning experiences jointly with the specialists of the school. Knowledge building can happen as a face to face experience, a totally online experience, or a combination of both. As a companion to knowledge building centers, we recommend that every child, teen, and adult create thier own Personal Learning Environment (PLEs) as a companion to working in Knowledge Building Centers. What is a Knowledge Building Center? The Science of Baking (grade 7):
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