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Education Week: Retooled Textbooks Aim to Capture Common Core - 0 views

www.edweek.org/...12cc-textbooks.h32.html

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    • Josh Flores
      Josh Flores on 27 Nov 12
       
      Same content, different expectations for students.
  • Pearson
  • excised
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  • "reader response" questions
  • replaced
  • "use examples from the text to justify your answer."
  • analyzing text features, to citing evidence, to de-emphasizing personal responses
  • basal-reading
  • Are the changes sufficient?
  • it's a shallower interpretation of that standard than what the [standards] writers intended."
  • more than materials
    • Josh Flores
      Josh Flores on 27 Nov 12
       
      Curriculum Materials aren't enough; it's about teaching practices.
  • structured in ways that help instructors make use of the material
  • Expeditionary Learning
  • Core Knowledge Foundation
  • seven non-negotiable requirements
  • text dependent
  • nonfiction
  • Argumentative writing didn't really exist in the early-elementary grades; that's one of the things we really had to change
  • New Tests
  • basal textbooks may no longer be an ideal way to teach to the depth envisioned in the standards
  • educators across the country are increasingly making use of free or open-source materials to craft lessons
  • quality
  • variable
  • open-source
Josh Flores

Grade 6 - ELA/Literacy | PARCC - 0 views

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      Josh Flores on 24 Aug 12
       
      Sounds like another way of saying, "Multiple Choice Test".
Josh Flores

Education Week Teacher: Four Myths About the ELA Common-Core Standards - 0 views

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      Josh Flores on 24 Jul 12
       
      Clarification phase is important.
  • Both of these teachers think they are setting students up to read
  • preview of the plot doesn't create a need
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  • makes it easy for students not to
  • missing an opportunity to set up the expectation that students should read closely
  • close read
    • Josh Flores
      Josh Flores on 24 Jul 12
       
      Step one in the lesson planning framework  "Close reading"
Josh Flores

Preparing History Teachers for the Common Core Standards « Blueprint for Hist... - 0 views

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  • Then we would go back to our classrooms and do what we had done before
  • They will not willing adopt any program that devalues historical content
Josh Flores

History and the Common Core Writing Standards « Blueprint for History Education - 0 views

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  • Teaching writing is difficult
  • grading
  • When a student can explain his or her logic and understanding, the teacher can see where to modify instruction.
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  • teaching them how to express their reasoning in an intellectual style
  • students have read and analyzed five of Lincoln’s speeches or writings
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    CW5.7 Historical Interpretation
Josh Flores

Common Core Standards: Writing in Science | The Biology Corner - 0 views

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  • what can we do as science instructors to add a writing component to daily (or weekly) lessons that are related to the current topics and have authentic purposes?
  • online social component
  • make comments
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  • students specific strategies for dealing with essay questions
    • Josh Flores
      Josh Flores on 02 Nov 12
       
      Hypothesis = Brainstorm
  • encourage writing as an everyday learning tool.
  • asserting and defending claims
  • conveying
  • experienced
Josh Flores

What's Really Best for Learning? | Common Sense Media - 0 views

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      Josh Flores on 02 Jul 12
       
      Will Common Core meet these goals?
    • Josh Flores
      Josh Flores on 02 Jul 12
       
      Components for effective learning.
  • shouldn't be exclusively or excessively spending time with a particular product or technology
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    • Josh Flores
      Josh Flores on 02 Jul 12
       
      Example of a holistic PBL.
  • open-ended questions
    • Josh Flores
      Josh Flores on 02 Jul 12
       
      Teacher as facilitator. Teach students to develop questions too.
Josh Flores

The Times and the Common Core Standards: Reading Strategies for 'Informational Text' - ... - 0 views

learning.blogs.nytimes.com/...ategies-for-informational-text

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      Josh Flores on 23 May 12
       
      Neat! Resources!
  • nonfiction texts as they get older,
  • 12th grade, the split should be 30/70
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  • Common Core definition of “informational text” includes pretty much everything The Times publishe
    • Josh Flores
      Josh Flores on 23 May 12
       
      Examples of informational texts
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Librarydoor: Thus Saith the Common Core about Graphic Text - 0 views

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    • Josh Flores
      Josh Flores on 23 May 12
       
      Skills taught with visual text/literacies
    • Josh Flores
      Josh Flores on 23 May 12
       
      Disagree.
  • graphic texts are actually embraced as "knowledge product"
Josh Flores

States work to reform education, student tests | Digital Hub for News & Entertainment - 0 views

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      Josh Flores on 17 May 12
       
      So... more testing through out the school year... like what's already happening.
Josh Flores

REAC3H Network Toolkit #1 - OSDE-TCS01 - Content Server - 0 views

164.58.238.140/tcs

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      Josh Flores on 09 May 12
       
      If you don't see the video, change the format here:
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REAC3H Network | State Department of Education - 0 views

www.ok.gov/reac3h-network

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      Josh Flores on 09 May 12
       
      Info about the PARCC assessment based on Common Core standards
Josh Flores

Common Core Toolkit Aligns Standards with 21st Century Skills Framework -- THE Journal - 0 views

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    Common Core Alignment with 21st Century Skills Framework http://tinyurl.com/3khhran
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