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Tracy Watanabe

wwwatanabe: Connecting 21st Century Learning, Technology, and Common Core Standards - 1 views

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Speaking and Listening Academic Conversations technology 21st century learning commoncore Nancy Frey

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  • 21st century learning and technology integration are part of the Common Core design.
  • Tracy Watanabe on 20 May 13
     
    "21st century learning and technology integration are part of the Common Core design." This post includes Tech in Common Core Prezi & webinar links/resources by Nancy Frey on Speaking and Listening (academic conversations).
Tracy Watanabe

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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Creating Cross-Curricular Text Sets for the Middle Grades | MiddleWeb - 0 views

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text set commoncore intertextual

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  • To design the text set, each person thought about a theme in the anchor text to explore. In this way, different people designed different text sets around a common anchor text. Next, each preservice teacher began to put a text set together. These requirements framed the assignment: The text set needed to include 6-8 texts, including the anchor text. The text set had to include both narrative and informational genres. The text set had to include both print and digital texts. The text set needed to include texts of varying complexity.
  • The authors inspired us to include both narrative and informational texts. The goals of this assignment were to help preservice teachers (1) understand what a text set is and (2) experience putting a text set together. Although the task seemed daunting at first, most preservice teachers were satisfied with their outcomes. The challenges we ran into included: Selecting an anchor text; Deciding on a theme in the anchor text to explore through the text set; Making informed choices about other texts to include.
  • These standards can seem daunting to preservice teachers. A text set assignment like the one described here is one way  teacher educators can help prepare our university students to plan curriculum and instruction that helps students make deeper connections.
  • Tracy Watanabe on 21 Apr 14
     
    Great ideas for text sets (intertextual lessons/units) -- with specific resources & ideas
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ELA Lesson Planning: Evidence And Arguments - 0 views

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commoncore evidence argumentative writing Teaching Channel ELA.W.6 authentic audience

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  • Lesson Objective Plan a lesson about identifying main ideas and developing arguments Length 6 min Questions to Consider How does Mr. Hanify integrate the different Common Core standards into this lesson? Notice the varied opportunities for student discussion throughout the lesson. How does Mr. Hanify design activities that scaffold student learning? Common Core Standards ELA.RI.9-10.2, ELA.W.9-10.6, ELA.SL.9-10.1a
  • Tracy Watanabe on 10 Mar 13
     
    Part 1 -- lesson planning argumentative writing writing for an authentic audience through blog
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Common Core Practice | Hit Films, Glowing Trees and an Underwater Menagerie - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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commoncore tech technology argumentative writing writing information literacy informative writing narrative STEM

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  • 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

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

SchoolsMovingUp - Designing Quality Units Aligned to the ELA Common Core State Standards - 5 views

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  • Tracy Watanabe on 15 Aug 12
     
    I haven't viewed yet, but wanted to bookmark and share.
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Testing to, and Beyond, the Common Core | Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Edu... - 0 views

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  • 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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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

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  • “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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