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Deron Durflinger

Classes a la carte: States test a new school model | Reuters - 0 views

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      Does this sound familiar, John?
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Are You Ready for Common Core Math? | District Administration Magazine - 0 views

  • Sovde, a former mathematics teacher and principal in the Bellevue (Wash.) Public Schools, says one of the tests PARCC is developing is a diagnostic assessment for the start of the year. He declares about the optional test, “If I were a district administrator, I would be jumping all over it, because it’s going to give you a good handle right up front about where your kids are.” All the new assessments will measure the abilities of students to solve problems, think conceptually, reason mathematically, and demonstrate more skills than rote memorization. “That’s going to be a shift, a different way of doing business,” says Sovde. The final, end-of-year summative assessment will require students to use computers or handheld devices to solve problems or think about mathematical issues. “It won’t be just a paper-and-pencil test put on a screen,” Sovde explains.
  • SBAC will ask students tailored questions based on their previous answers. It will continue to use one end-of-year test for accountability purposes but will create a series of interim tests to inform students, parents and teachers about whether students are on track.
  • more deeply than assessments do now into what students are learning in math and how they are learning it. “I think we’ll see some questions that apply to real-world settings, and I wouldn’t be surprised if students have to describe in writing how they got an answer rather than just filling in a blank with it
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  • questions students are asked will be delivered online and answered online instead of on paper.
  • The assessments will test students on practices such as making sense of problems, reasoning abstractly and quantitatively, constructing viable arguments and critiquing the reasoning of others, modeling with mathematics, using appropriate tools strategically, communicating precisely, and looking for and making use of structure.
  • “Students will be assessed on extended problem-solving and performance tasks and will need to show their reasoning
  • “need to help teachers implement the Standards for Mathematical Practice and connect them to math content. That is a big change for them.”
Deron Durflinger

Five Reasons I don't Assign Homework - South Euclid, OH, United States, ASCD EDge Blog ... - 0 views

  • Homework has nothing to do with teaching responsibility (HW advocates love this claim)
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      Probably my favorite argument he has listed... Would love to hear everyone's thoughts on this:)
Deron Durflinger

Educational Leadership:Expecting Excellence:Seven Reasons for Standards-Based Grading - 1 views

  • An A means the student has completed proficient work on all course objectives and advanced work on some objectives.
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      This is why grades are meaningless.
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