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Tracy Watanabe

Common Core Practice | Hit Films, Glowing Trees and an Underwater Menagerie - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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shared by Tracy Watanabe on 13 May 13 - No Cached
  • A few weeks ago, Mrs. Gross, Mr. Olsen and their students explored how they might pair Times content with basic computer coding to practice Common Core skills. This week they show how the news and the standards can be jumping-off points for exploring video design and gaming. Here are three recent STEM-related articles, related writing prompts, and links to the student projects that resulted–from an undersea-themed game to pop-up analyses of viral videos to interactive biographies of inspiring innovators.
Tracy Watanabe

achievethecore.org :: Text-Dependent Questions - 1 views

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shared by Tracy Watanabe on 06 May 13 - No Cached
  • Tracy Watanabe on 06 May 13
     
    The Common Core State Standards expect students to use evidence from texts to present careful analyses, well-defended claims, and clear information. A central tool to help students develop these skills is text-dependent questions: questions that can only be answered by referring back to the text. On this page teachers can find tools to help write and evaluate text-dependent questions, as well as a link to lesson materials with examples of text-dependent questions included.
Tracy Watanabe

AIMS to PARCC Transition - 2 views

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shared by Tracy Watanabe on 30 Jul 12 - No Cached
  • Tracy Watanabe on 30 Jul 12
     
    "Dear Arizona Educator,   In an effort to foster the successful transition to Arizona's Common Core Standards and the PARCC assessment, the Arizona Department of Education is providing the following information regarding the Spring 2013 and 2014 AIMS assessments and the changes that are necessary to effectively transition to the PARCC assessment.   Changes to the Spring 2013 and 2014 AIMS Assessments Although the AIMS assessment will remain the same concerning the blueprints and format, the passages and items will have several changes as outlined below.  The focus of the AIMS test will be to move closer to the expectations of the PARCC assessment. --------------------- Passages In order to prepare for the expected rigor of the PARCC passages, the AIMS passages will contain an increase in text complexity as well as higher Lexile levels.  The language used will have sophisticated text, both qualitatively and quantitatively. Items Many of the AIMS items are written at the Concept level, allowing for multiple Performance Objectives within a Concept to be addressed in a single item.  The item's complexity will be raised through selecting items at the Depth of Knowledge (DOK) levels of 2 and 3. Please note the attachment - Webb's Depth of Knowledge Levels (Table 1) and Hess' Cognitive Rigor Matrix (Table 2). To further support the transition from the AIMS assessment to the PARCC assessment, the test items have been aligned to the 2003 (Reading), 2004 (Writing), and 2008 (Mathematics) Standards as well as to Arizona's Common Core Standards for Mathematics and Language Arts. -----------------------   Transitioning to Arizona's Common Core Standards and the PARCC Assessment Since Arizona's Common Core Standards are the building blocks of the PARCC assessment, the following documents are provided to help make the transition a little smoother from the old standards/AIMS assessment to the new Common Core Standards/PARCC assessment.  The English Languag
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Testing to, and Beyond, the Common Core | Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Edu... - 0 views

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shared by Tracy Watanabe on 20 Mar 14 - No Cached
  • the push is now to implement next-generation learning goals that encourage higher-order thinking skills.
  • A critical piece in this roadmap will be new assessments, which have the potential to give school leaders new and better tools to guide instruction, support teachers, and improve outcomes. Assessment decisions will have a big impact on principals, who know the difference between leading a school constrained by punitively used tests that fail to measure many of the most important learning goals, and a school that uses thoughtful assessments to measure what matters and inform instruction.
  • Become part of a new accountability system that replaces the old test-and-punish philosophy with one that aims to assess, support, and improve. Tests should be used not to allocate sanctions, but to provide information, in conjunction with other indicators, to guide educational improvement.
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  • some schools, districts, and states are developing more robust performance tasks and portfolios as part of multiple-measure systems of assessment.
  • In addition to CCSS-aligned consortia exams, multiple measures could include: Classroom-administered performance tasks (e.g., research papers, science investigations, mathematical solutions, engineering designs, arts performances); Portfolios of writing samples, art works, or other learning products; Oral presentations and scored discussions; and Teacher rating of student note-taking skills, collaboration skills, persistence with challenging tasks, and other evidence of learning skills.
  • How can we engage students in assessments that measure higher order thinking and performance skills—and use these to transform practice? How can these assessments be used to help students become independent learners, and help teachers learn about how their students learn? How can teachers be enabled to collect evidence of student learning that captures the most important goals they are pursuing, and then to analyze and reflect on this evidence—individually and collectively— to continually improve their teaching? What is the range of measures we believe could capture the educational goals we care about in our school? How could we use these to illustrate and extend our progress and successes as a school?
  • Tracy Watanabe on 20 Mar 14
     
    this was written by Linda Darling-Hammond, a Stanford University professor
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debrennersmith: Writing and Reading Lessons: Getting to the heart of the common core st... - 2 views

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shared by Tracy Watanabe on 08 May 12 - No Cached
  • *Standards - what we teach *Text Complexity - what we teach with *Focus on comprehension Scaffolds - how we teach *The Task - how we measure what we teach Comprehension Standards - What's new? NOT the same cake with different frosting
  • Key ideas and details - what is author saying Standard 1Standard 2Standard 3 Craft and Structure - How is the author saying itStandard 4Standard 5Standard 6 Integration of Knowledge and Ideas - Why is the author saying itStandard 7Standard 8Standard 9 Text Complexity and RangeStandard 10
  • NEW ADDITIONS to think about when thinking about the CCSS 1. More on character development (characters who change from beginning to end) 2. Summary includes theme 3. Paraphrasing 4. Vocabulary: tier2, tier3, figurative language (simile, personification, idioms), TONE (where did the character have a bad attitude,  a good attitude, change attitude) 5. Genre, text structure 6. Text to text connections 7. Broader definition of text (digital, live, video) 8.Illustrations part of message (picture shows mood of character) 9. Point of view / perspectives (values and belief systems) NO LONGER TEACHING in CCSS: text to self connections because it takes students away from the texts Creative thinking
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