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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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Removing Barriers and Educational Technology | The Principal of Change - 1 views

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shared by Tracy Watanabe on 04 May 13 - No Cached
  • How is technology changing the face and pace of K-12 education?  Information is abundant and as Daniel Pink discusses in his latest book, it is not about accessing information, but about curating it. When you have access to all of the information in the world, there is obviously some great stuff, and some stuff that is of a poor quality. How are students critical of what they see, and how do they reflect and share? Too many schools are worried about students “googling” answers on test because that would make them “cheaters”, yet as adults, we would be considered resourceful if we did the same thing. What we do with the information is much more important now than simply finding it. We need to look at how students are not only consumers of information, but creators of content as well. That is where the real learning happens and technology gives us the opportunity to be able to share easily with the entire world
  • Tracy Watanabe on 04 May 13
     
    This is so right on -- and reminds me of two Common Core Standards also: CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.7 Integrate and evaluate content presented in diverse media and formats, including visually and quantitatively, as well as in words.1 AND CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.8 Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources, assess the credibility and accuracy of each source, and integrate the information while avoiding plagiarism. They must be able to currate to do these! -- My recommendation is to get the students on Diigo (where they can create collaborative annotative bibliographies!)
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Common Core: Fact vs. Fiction | Scholastic.com - 0 views

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commoncore Informational text nonfiction instruction scholastic vocabulary

shared by Tracy Watanabe on 04 Dec 12 - No Cached
  • What is informational text? Common Core uses “informational text” as another term for “nonfiction text.”  This category includes historical, scientific, and technical texts that provide students with factual information about the world. Typically, they employ structures such as cause and effect, compare and contrast, and problem and solution. They also contain text features like headlines and boldface vocabulary words.  Because of their narrative structures, biographies and autobiographies do not look like other nonfiction texts. In fact, they are often classified as literary nonfiction. But the Common Core considers them to be informational text as well.  Another category of informational texts includes directions, forms, and information contained in charts, graphs, maps, and digital resources. Simply put, if students are reading it for the information it contains, it’s informational text. 
  • Putting It Into Practice  With an understanding of what the standards are calling for, it’s time to start thinking about what instruction in informational text could look like in your classroom. Here are a few ideas.
  • . The phrase “academic and domain-specific vocabulary,” which appears several times, refers to words readers often encounter in textbooks across all subject areas.
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  • Domain-specific vocabulary words, on the other hand, are likely to be encountered only in a particular content area.
  • Tracy Watanabe on 04 Dec 12
     
    Some examples here of what Common Core could look like in the classroom for various grade levels.
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CCLS | Greece Athena Staff Blog - 0 views

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  • Tracy Watanabe on 10 Mar 13
     
    "Summary of this Page: This page will serve as a warehouse of information for us as we adjust to and implement the Common Core Standards over the coming year. This page will fill up with more resources in the next few weeks."
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Exactly What The Common Core Standards Say About Technology - 0 views

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commoncore tech technology

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  • Tracy Watanabe on 13 May 13
     
    "The Common Core standards don't just suggest novel technology use as a way to "engage students," but rather requires learners to make complex decisions about how, when, and why to use technology-something educators must do as well."
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Educators Evaluating Quality Instructional Products | Achieve - 1 views

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shared by Tracy Watanabe on 29 Apr 13 - No Cached
  • Educators Evaluating Quality Instructional Products (EQuIP) is a collaborative of ADP Network states that are focused on increasing the supply of quality instructional materials that are aligned to the Common Core State Standards and available for instruction in elementary, middle, and high school classrooms. 
  • Tracy Watanabe on 29 Apr 13
     
    As we think about how to evaluate progress, I wonder about rubrics such as this. More importantly, I think about the Analyzing Students' Work, Thinking, and Learning Analysis Tool we created at the beginning of this school year. -- I heard Heidi Hayes Jacobs refer to this in a recent webinar I watched of her. 
Tracy Watanabe

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

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  • 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.
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At an East San Jose high school, students react to new Common Core test | EdSource Today - 0 views

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Smarter Balanced commoncore assessment pilot

shared by Tracy Watanabe on 17 Apr 14 - No Cached
  • “With this test, you had to make your point and explain your answer,” said Desiree Jones. “In the future, you may have to do the same thing – back up your claim –where you work. You can’t just say, ‘That’s good.’ You’ll need to say what you think and why.”
  • Citing evidence, defending a position Desiree was referring to the performance assessment part of the test. It represents the biggest change from the state tests.
  • They were asked to take a position, using evidence based on what they read. They could use a split screen to cut and paste from the articles – a task that some students found difficult to do, especially for math problems, using their portable Chromebooks  – and they could write as much and take as much time as they wanted.
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  • Students said there were annoying aspects to doing a test on a computer, but overall they said they preferred it. They said it was cumbersome to type out a formula; they complained there was no scratch paper to solve math problems (actually, scratch paper is allowed, but a proctor on the first day misread the rules).
  • “Geometry concepts are hard to remember,” said Daisy De La Cruz, who is now taking Calculus. Desiree said, “In the past, questions went gradually from easy to hard. This one was jumbled.” Field tests are designed to test the validity of questions, not simulate actual tests that students will take starting next year. As a result, there was an intentional randomness in the question selection and order that caught students by surprise. Questions ranged from pre-algebra they took in middle school to graphing problems in pre-calculus, students said.
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Teaching Students To Use Textual Evidence - 0 views

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commoncore Teaching Channel annotate annotation textual evidence evidence citation child labor justify

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  • Tracy Watanabe on 10 Mar 13
     
    "Lesson Objective Identify, discuss, and apply textual evidence Length 6 min Questions to Consider: How does each part of the lesson prepare students for writing? What skills do students develop in the lesson? How could the scaffolds Ms. Norris puts into place be taken away as students gain fluency? Common Core Standards ELA.RI.6.1, ELA.SL.6.1a, ELA.W.6.2a"
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achievethecore.org / Basal Alignment Project - 2 views

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  • Tracy Watanabe on 10 Mar 13
     
    Text Dependent questions -- 3rd-5th grades for Harcourt Trophies There's also a 6th-8th grade group too. These groups rewrite the questions of the book. -- We can always look at the quality and bump it up if needed. But, much of the work is done as a starting point. Just join on Edmodo using the codes listed on these pages.
  • Jodi Walker on 03 Apr 13
     
    I just joined their group and looked at one example. I think this is definitely something that is worth looking into further and possibly sharing out with teachers.
Tracy Watanabe

A new look at classroom activities and methods - The Miami County Republic: Education - 0 views

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shared by Tracy Watanabe on 26 Feb 13 - No Cached
  • The rigor and approach of the Common Core standards schools are adapting to is requiring teachers to reexamine not just the content they teach but the way they teach.
  • What I like about Common Core is it’s focused just as much on how we teach as what we teach
  • And while teachers are having to step up and incorporate new methods into their classrooms, they’re also having to step back and let students figure out concepts on their own.
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  • “I think your teacher will be more of a facilitator,” Pam Best, USD 416 assistant superintendent, said. “I would even hope that they would encourage the students to learn from each other. That’s the movement. That’s where we’re going.”
  • Fouraker is referring to Bloom’s Taxonomy, which describes the depths at which people think. Currently, schools often focus on lower-order thinking, like knowledge, comprehension and application. What flip classrooms allow teachers to do is get into higher-order thinking – anaylsis, synthesis and evaluation – by engaging in interactive projects.
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Connected Learning: 'ENGAGED' on Vimeo - 2 views

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  • Tracy Watanabe on 07 May 13
     
    Awesome video about student engagement (and rigor that goes with that). In my mind, it goes back to the student-centered task -- the evidence of learning. Powerful statements in the video are: What's wrong with education is we think of end results, content we have to chung and plug, with deadlines. We plan our calendars in the summers before we even get the kids in our classrooms. It's as if the kids don't matter. Engagement is what matters. Is the kid engaged? What is the learning experience we want the kid to have? -- SO, it starts with the kid (instead of the outcome). Make room for curiosity. In the traditional classroom, there's not time for curiosity, inquiry, ... Take the time to fail, risk to innovate, be curious, inquire, and LEARN! Have a passion for learning! Hook the kids to want to learn! Engage them! "Content is the context for participating." -- What do we want kids participating in? -- Connect the content with student task. = Engagement
Tracy Watanabe

SchoolsMovingUp - Designing Quality Units Aligned to the ELA Common Core State Standards - 1 views

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  • Tracy Watanabe on 09 May 12
     
    This is the Webinar that LInda recommended as a starting point.
Tracy Watanabe

Late Elementary (Grades 3-5): English Language Arts: Reading Standards for Informationa... - 1 views

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ELA english resources lesson standards informational_expository

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  • Tracy Watanabe on 02 Jul 12
     
    "As you work to integrate Common Core standards into your classroom, it may help to look at sample lessons. In this set, you can see lessons, presentations, and assessments working with informational text (grades 3-5). Remember that you can search the site by grade level and common core standard and that other subject areas besides Common Core are included on the site." --Vicki Davis
Tracy Watanabe

Lexile Analyzer® - 1 views

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shared by Tracy Watanabe on 10 Jul 12 - No Cached
  • The Lexile® measure of text is determined using the Lexile Analyzer®, a software program that evaluates the reading demand—or readability—of books, articles and other materials. The Lexile Analyzer measures the complexity of the text by breaking down the entire piece and studying its characteristics, such as sentence length and word frequency, which represent the syntactic and semantic challenges that the text presents to a reader. The outcome is the text complexity, expressed as a Lexile measure, along with information on the word count, mean sentence length and mean log frequency.
  • Tracy Watanabe on 10 Jul 12
     
    You can scan your text (or type it in) to see the complexity of what you've written (or text in any website).
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Lesson Plans - Search Education - Google - 0 views

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shared by Tracy Watanabe on 24 Jul 12 - No Cached
  • With more and more of the world's content online, it is critical that students understand how to effectively use web search to find quality sources appropriate to their task. We've created a series of lessons to help you guide your students to use search meaningfully in their schoolwork and beyond. On this page, you'll find Search Literacy lessons and A Google A Day classroom challenges. Our search literacy lessons help you meet the new Common Core State Standards and are broken down based on level of expertise in search: Beginner, Intermediate, or Advanced. A Google A Day challenges help your students put their search skills to the test, and to get your classroom engaged and excited about using technology to discover the world around them.
  • Tracy Watanabe on 24 Jul 12
     
    There are challenges for internet searching that has culture, geography, history, or science as the theme.
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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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Periodic-Table of the CCSS.png (720×540) - 3 views

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  • Tracy Watanabe on 14 Aug 13
     
    Love this infographic of CCSS as Periodic Table
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Principals slam 2014 NY Common Core tests as badly designed - 0 views

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  • Tracy Watanabe on 08 Apr 14
     
    This article includes letters from principals to parents about the test and organizes protests...
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Using Student Blogs to Achieve Standards for Mathematical Practice - 1 views

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shared by Tracy Watanabe on 25 Feb 13 - No Cached
  • In this article, I make a case for student blogs as a tool that can support and extend students’ mathematics proficiency through the Standards for Mathematical Practice.
  • Teachers who use math journals can easily convert that process to a digital one through blogging.
  • The act of blogging allows for: students to make their thinking visible students and teachers to give one another feedback students and teachers to keep a record of student progress with mathematics What follows is a definition of the eight Standards for Mathematical Practice and a description of how blogging can enhance and strengthen students’ use of these practices:   Teachers who use math journals can easily convert that process to a digital one through blogging.
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  • 1. Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them
  • 2. Reason abstractly and quantitatively
  • 3. Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.
  • 4. Model with mathematics.
  • 5. Use appropriate tools strategically.
  • 6. Attend to precision.
  • 7. Look for and make use of structure.
  • 8. Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.
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