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seth_mitchell

Common Core State Standards Initiative | Mathematics | Introduction | Standards for Mat... - 0 views

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math Standards common core Technology writing

shared by seth_mitchell on 27 Feb 12 - Cached
  • Mathematically proficient students can explain correspondences between equations, verbal descriptions, tables, and graphs or draw diagrams of important features and relationships, graph data, and search for regularity or trends
  • the ability to contextualize, to pause as needed during the manipulation process in order to probe into the referents for the symbols involved. Quantitative reasoning entails habits of creating a coherent representation of the problem at hand; considering the units involved; attending to the meaning of quantities, not just how to compute them; and knowing and flexibly using different properties of operations and objects.
  • They justify their conclusions, communicate them to others, and respond to the arguments of others.
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  • In middle grades, a student might apply proportional reasoning to plan a school event or analyze a problem in the community. By high school, a student might use geometry to solve a design problem or use a function to describe how one quantity of interest depends on another. Mathematically proficient students who can apply what they know are comfortable making assumptio
  • Mathematically proficient students at various grade levels are able to identify relevant external mathematical resources, such as digital content located on a website, and use them to pose or solve p
  • roblems. They are able to use technological tools to explore and deepen their understanding of concepts.
  • In the elementary grades, students give carefully formulated explanations to each other. By the time they reach high school they have learned to examine claims and make explicit use of definitions.
  • seth_mitchell on 27 Feb 12
     
    Plenty of opportunities in these math standards for reflection, publication, revision, and collaboration.
Alyssa Littlefield

The Writing Revolution - Peg Tyre - The Atlantic - 3 views

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shared by Alyssa Littlefield on 29 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • For the first time, elementary-­school students—­who today mostly learn writing by constructing personal narratives, memoirs, and small works of fiction—will be required to write informative and persuasive essays. By high school, students will be expected to produce mature and thoughtful essays, not just in English class but in history and science classes as well.
    • Elizabeth Tewksbury
      Elizabeth Tewksbury on 29 Sep 12
       
      I love this, because usually when a student cannot write, everyone (including fellow teachers) simply point fingers at the English teachers and blame us.  
    • Alyssa Littlefield
      Alyssa Littlefield on 29 Sep 12
       
      Where does the information for the Nation's Report Card come from? 
  • he new writing standards are meant to reverse a pedagogical pendulum that has swung too far, favoring self-­expression and emotion over lucid communication.
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  • Although New Dorp teachers had observed students failing for years, they never connected that failure to specific flaws in their own teaching.
  • “Most teachers,” said Nell Scharff, an instructional expert DeAngelis hired, “entered into the process with a strongly negative attitude.”
    • Elizabeth Tewksbury
      Elizabeth Tewksbury on 29 Sep 12
       
      Big surprise.  I KNOW this would happen at my own school as well.  :-/
    • Alyssa Littlefield
      Alyssa Littlefield on 29 Sep 12
       
      This seems like a pretty broad statement...
  • seth_mitchell on 29 Sep 12
     
    Interesting conversation starter.  
thebda

ThumbScribes - Collaborative Writing Community - Login - 1 views

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collaborative interactive

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  • thebda on 01 Mar 12
     
    On line community for collaboration.  More of a high school thing I think but it seems like you can set up your own private group.
seth_mitchell

Are We Learning the Right Lessons From New Dorp High School? - Jim Fredricksen - The At... - 4 views

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writing teaching grammar WAC WTL PD

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  • seth_mitchell on 29 Sep 12
     
    Great response to Peg Tyre's "The Writing Revolution"
seth_mitchell

How My Learning Has Changed « - 1 views

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PD conferences education

shared by seth_mitchell on 05 Dec 12 - No Cached
  • So, having also recently attended an EdCamp, I can say there is something between that and a traditional conference that would be best for how I want to learn.  And, I am okay with giving up a Saturday (with the promise of a bagged lunch) to sit in a high school to talk teaching and learning.
    • seth_mitchell
      seth_mitchell on 05 Dec 12
       
      Boy, this sounds a whole lot like SMWP's upcoming tech conference.
  •  If I am going to travel to conferences, then I need it to add value — not only to come away with new ideas, but new tools that I have had the chance to try, and the experience I couldn’t have had if I were not there.
  • What I need now is a chance to spend time making sense of what I am hearing — I crave the opportunity to engage with the smart people who are with me in the room.
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  • Focussed visits to districts, schools and classes are very powerful, with specific objectives and learning in action and not only in a presentation.  I also find the traditional ‘study group’ to continue to have a huge impact on my learning.
Suzanne Tighe

The Writing Revolution - Peg Tyre - The Atlantic - 4 views

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shared by Suzanne Tighe on 29 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • “How could they get passed along and end up in high school without understanding how to use the word although?”
    • Elizabeth Tewksbury
      Elizabeth Tewksbury on 29 Sep 12
       
      EXACTLY
  • Literacy, which once consisted of the ability to read for knowledge, write coherently, and express complex thoughts about the written word, has become synonymous with reading. Formal writing instruction has become even more of an after­thought.
    • Elizabeth Tewksbury
      Elizabeth Tewksbury on 29 Sep 12
       
      SO sad.
    • Hannah Rohner
      Hannah Rohner on 29 Sep 12
       
      What a bummer. 
    • Alyssa Littlefield
      Alyssa Littlefield on 29 Sep 12
       
      I think it's interesting that the focus is only on expository and grammar. Isn't there room for everything? 
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    • Alyssa Littlefield
      Alyssa Littlefield on 29 Sep 12
       
      I agree with early instruction, the how to, for writing. I can't help but allow creativity in there as well. 
  • Kids who come from poverty, who had weak early instruction, or who have learning difficulties, he explains, “can’t catch anywhere near what they need” to write an essay.
  • The harder they looked, the teachers began to realize, the harder it was to determine whether the students were smart or not—the tools they had to express their thoughts were so limited that such a judgment was nearly impossible.
    • Suzanne Tighe
      Suzanne Tighe on 29 Sep 12
       
      Sometimes its not whether a child is "smart" or not, but if they have the ability to express their thinking (verbally or written)
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  • don’t learn how to teach writing
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