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The Best Articles Sharing Concerns About Common Core Standards - 4 views

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  • Kathy Kaldenberg on 29 Jan 11
     
    Larry Ferlazzo "For the almost four years I've been writing this blog, I've periodically shared my concerns about developing national standards."
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Iowa H.F. 45 - 1 views

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  • H.F. 45 17. CORE CURRICULUM AND CAREER INFORMATION AND 1 DECISION-MAKING SYSTEM 2 For purposes of implementing the statewide core curriculum 3 for school districts and accredited nonpublic schools and a 4 state-designated career information and decision-making system: 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 1,901,556 6 75,556
  • The funding for implementation of the statewide core 16 curriculum for schools and for the career information and 17 decision-making system are eliminated and legislative intent is 18 stated for amending the law relating to the curriculum.
  • Matt Townsley on 18 Jan 11
     
    proposed legislation eliminating Iowa Core funding
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outcome6.jpg (1416×735) - 4 views

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  • Matt Townsley on 18 Jan 11
     
    a visual of Iowa Core outcome #6
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gwaea - EduVision - 8 views

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  • Andy Crozier on 19 Dec 10
     
    Matt, you guys are going to have access to your own Solon themed channel here in the next few months with EduVision.
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State Board of Education Adopts Common Core State Standards - Iowa Department of Education - 3 views

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  • Matt Townsley on 19 Aug 10
     
    common core / Iowa Core merger information
  • Matt Townsley on 19 Aug 10
     
    more information about Iowa Core concepts & skills merger with Common Core
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Creating a Passion for Learning: My Response to the Fordham Report - 1 views

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shared by Matt Townsley on 27 Jul 10 - Cached
  • What I will say is that any comparison of the Iowa Core to the Common Core is not an apples-to-apples comparison. The Iowa Core is not standards and benchmarks and has never pretended to be.
    • Matt Townsley
      Matt Townsley on 27 Jul 10
       
      How can we get this word out to the masses in Iowa?
  • Matt Townsley on 27 Jul 10
     
    "What I will say is that any comparison of the Iowa Core to the Common Core is not an apples-to-apples comparison. The Iowa Core is not standards and benchmarks and has never pretended to be."
  • Matt Townsley on 27 Jul 10
     
    Iowa Core is more than just concepts and skills.
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WELCOME! (Heartland AEA 11: Alignment Wiki) - 8 views

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  • Matt Townsley on 10 May 10
     
    information about the ICAT alignment tool for outcome 4.
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The Iowa Core Curriculum. Perfect? No. Enhanced Rigor? Yes. | edventuresome - 2 views

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  • Matt Townsley on 20 Apr 10
     
    John Nash's thoughts on Iowa Core
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Educational Leadership:Informative Assessment:The Best Value in Formative Assessment - 3 views

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shared by Russell A on 27 Jul 09 - Cached
  • Even though assessments will continue to be labeled formative or summative, how the results are used is what determines whether the assessment is formative or summative.
  • but some, by design, are better suited to summative use and others to formative use.
  • Although such assessments are sometimes intended for formative use—that is, to guide further instruction for groups or individual students—teachers' and administrators' lack of understanding of how to use the results can derail this intention
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  • however, teachers must plan and allow time for students to learn the knowledge and skills they missed on the summative assessment and to retake the assessment
  • When we try to teacher-proof the assessment process by providing a steady diet of ready-made external tests, we lose these advantages. Such tests cannot substitute for the day-to-day level of formative assessment that only assessment-literate teachers are able to conduct.
    • Russell A
      Russell A on 10 Apr 10
       
      music instructors are said to do formative assessments every 5-10 seconds. I haven't figured out whether that's good or bad.
  • Where am I going? Give students a list of the learning targets they are responsible for mastering, written in student-friendly language. Show students anonymous strong and weak examples of the kind of product or performance they are expected to create and have them use a scoring guide to determine which one is better and why. Where am I now? Administer a nongraded quiz part-way through the learning, to help both teacher and students understand who needs to work on what. Highlight phrases on a scoring guide reflecting specific strengths and areas for improvement and staple it to student work. Have students identify their own strengths and areas for improvement using a scoring guide. Have students keep a list of learning targets for the course and periodically check off the ones they have mastered. How can I close the gap? Give students feedback and have them use it to set goals. Have students graph or describe their progress on specific learning targets. Ask students to comment on their progress: What changes have they noticed? What is easy that used to be hard? What insights into themselves as learners have they discovered? When students use feedback from the teacher to learn how to self-assess and set goals, they increase ownership of their own success. In this type of assessment environment, teachers and students collaborate in an ongoing process using assessment information to improve rather than judge learning. It all hinges on the assessment's ability to provide timely, understandable, and descriptive feedback to teachers and students.
    • Teresa Bellinghausen
      Teresa Bellinghausen on 11 Apr 10
       
      One of the most important features of formative assessment is that teachers and students are both actively involved in the assessment process. Students are not just passive recipients of grades, but must set learning goals and reflect on their own learning, making adjustments in strategies when needed. My guess is that in most classrooms, especially at the high school level, this will be a radical departure from the norm.
  • When teachers assess student learning for purely formative purposes, there is no final mark on the paper and no summative grade in the grade book.
  • What is formative assessment, then? First, it's not a product.
  • Assessment for learning can take many different forms in the classroom.
  • Matt Townsley on 27 Jul 09
     
    great article on what 'formative assessment' is and is not.
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  • Russell A on 10 Apr 10
     
    great article on what 'formative assessment' is and is not.
  • Michele Arman on 10 Apr 10
     
    I feel that modern language teachers do many assessments during each class. This year, we tracked all the kinds of assessments that we do. I have already ended up with a huge notebook full of the different types of assessment that is used in my classroom. My question is if we should have that many or should we concentrate on ones that give us the best results on depicting a student's progress.
  • Bridgette Wagoner on 12 Apr 10
     
    I always think back to what Doug Reeves says about the difference between formative and summative assessments. He says formative assessment is like exploratory surgery; summative assessment is like an autopsy.
  • Renee Harmon on 19 Apr 10
     
    Great description Bridgette. I love this and will use it with my college students.
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Iowa Core Curriculum - Literacy - 0 views

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  • Literacy — defined by Meltzer, Smith, and Clark as the ability to read, write, speak, listen, and think effectively — enables students to learn and to communicate clearly about what they know. Being literate gives people the ability to become informed, to inform others, and to make informed decisions (2001). Literacy is synonymous with learning. The partnerships between reading, writing, speaking, listening, and viewing — connecting with the ever-increasing knowledge base for each content area — provide the means for thinking among and between concepts and ideas. It is an active process.
    • Laurie Wyatt
      Laurie Wyatt on 17 Apr 10
       
      Literacy is social.
  • By its nature, literacy is social. In being effective critical members of a literacy community, students collaborate with others. Whether it be engaging the ideas of an author or actively discussing and debating issues about their lives with their peers, this collaboration helps students gain an appreciation of themselves, others, and the world. There is a cumulative advantage to the reciprocity of sharing ideas. The more students engage in literacy, the deeper their conceptual understanding and motivation to learn becomes.
  • Laurie Wyatt on 17 Apr 10
     
    "By its nature, literacy is social. In being effective critical members of a literacy community, students collaborate with others. Whether it be engaging the ideas of an author or actively discussing and debating issues about their lives with their peers, this collaboration helps students gain an appreciation of themselves, others, and the world. There is a cumulative advantage to the reciprocity of sharing ideas. The more students engage in literacy, the deeper their conceptual understanding and motivation to learn becomes. "
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21st Century Technology Literacy - 1 views

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shared by Michele Arman on 17 Jun 09 - Cached
    • Dan Rader
      Dan Rader on 17 Jun 09
       
      One of the things I notice is the use of the generic terms. Sometimes my staff gets so caught up in the "tools", ie specific software, they over look the big picture.
    • Jennifer Kitzman
      Jennifer Kitzman on 17 Jun 09
       
      With technology the 'tools' seem to change so quickly - that is where 'looking at the big picture', 'being willing to adapt to new changes, and 'the process of learning about technology' becomes important.
  • Collaborate with peers, experts, and others using interactive technology
    • Dan Rader
      Dan Rader on 17 Jun 09
       
      I think currently the students could help the teachers with this more than we can help them.
    • Dan Rader
      Dan Rader on 17 Jun 09
       
      I am not sure that we currently have anyone on staff that is a master of all of these essential concepts. I see a lot of Professional Development needed in this area.
  • anonymous on 17 Jun 09
     
    Some times we forget that technology items - computers, overhead, SmartBoard - are all tools to help us help our students. There is a whole new realm of literacy as mentioned, technology literacy, for both teachers and students. One overarching literacy principle is how to decide which tool to use when and what skills are needed to carry out the work.
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  • Jennifer Kitzman on 17 Jun 09
     
    It is a very broad range to cover with the words "technological knowledge and skills to learn effectively and live productively" because we know that that will look so different for each individual student. With that in mind, I feel the 'process' becomes the important thing and as educators we need to try to 'open the doors' and 'help each other go through them' - teacher to student, student to teacher, student to student and teacher to teacher.
  • Michele Arman on 11 Apr 10
     
    I like this vision that we are striving for. Today's students need technology knowlege and skills. All students will be able to make individual contributions if we keep this goal. Tehnology has changed the way we work today and how we have our relationships.
  • Julie Schwertley on 14 Apr 10
     
    I totally agree. We always need to be looking at the big picture because the tools in our tool box change so often.
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Effects of Technology on Classroom and Students - 4 views

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  • Michele Arman on 11 Apr 10
     
    I agree with this article. I began using a technology based textbook this year. A teacher does become more of a facilitator when the students are working with technology. It does improve motivation for students who normally don't get excited about school.
  • Kim Renning on 11 Apr 10
     
    I agree as well. Some of the classes we offer at our Alternative School are done on the computer, and you are right, we as teachers do become more of a facilitator with those students. It's funny, we have some students who really like the computer classes, and others who don't like them at all.
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