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seth_mitchell

Common Core State Standards Initiative | English Language Arts Standards | Anchor Stand... - 3 views

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Standards common core Technology writing

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      seth_mitchell on 27 Feb 12
       
      These three standards hit all four of our tech PD focus areas: reflection, collaboration, publication, and revision.
  • 6. Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and to interact and collaborate with others.
  • 5. Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach.
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  • 10. Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of tasks, purposes, and audiences.
seth_mitchell

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

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math Standards common core Technology writing

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  • 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.
Susan Inman

Common Core State Standards in English spark war over words - The Washington Post - 1 views

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commoncore reading standards literacy

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  • Susan Inman on 04 Dec 12
     
    To teach or not to teach fiction...according to the Common Core.  An interesting read...
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.  
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