Group items tagged comprehensive - Common Core and 21st Century Learning

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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
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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
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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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shared by Theresa Bartholomew on 18 Jul 12 - No Cached

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.
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What I like about Common Core is it’s focused just as much on how we teach as what we teach
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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.”
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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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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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shared by Tracy Watanabe on 13 Aug 12 - No Cached

These tests will be different and not solely because of the technology, but a look in this direction is enough to start thinking more deeply about how different these assessments will be
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1.  ONPAR (Obtaining Necessary Parity through Academic Rigor) from the University of Wisconsin. 2. CBAL (Cognitively Based Assessment of, for, and as Learning) from Educational Testing Services (ETS). 3.  Research conducted at Shell Centre for Mathematical Education at the University of Nottingham.
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PARCC is developing a comprehensive system of five assessments;
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States that choose to adopt PARCC and replace their already existing statewide assessments in the coming years will only be required to administer two components for accountability purposes.  These two assessments, the performance based assessment (PBA) and the end of year assessment (EOY), will be “free” to districts
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shared by Tracy Watanabe on 28 Jan 14 - No Cached

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