Greetings!
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Let's start with a Slides presentation that shares the facts noting the evolution of our old, state standards, through the Common Core Learning Standards, and now to our NextGen learning standards. Demonstrating that you can recall and recreate the knowledge of that evolution will be the first step on your journey to understanding. Don't worry. From here, we'll climb ever higher.
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It's time for some strategic thinking! Let's apply these standards to a real-life learning scenario. How would you create a lesson to teach and assess these standards. Please realize that teaching and assessing are two vastly different, but collectively important teaching skills to think about simultaneously.
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In many ways, writing effective, text-dependent questions is at the core of the common core. It's easy to think of text-dependent questions as low Webb's DOK parroting about shirt colors and ship's names, but genuinely, with a little time and creativity they can be incredibly engaging questions that allow students to bridge the gap between their lives and the text in ways that would be impossible otherwise.
To learn about, and practice writing text-dependent questions, enjoy this presentation. |
This presentation is intended to draw connections between the education words we already know, and the renamed versions of those words endorsed by the Common Core.
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What's the point of a Common Core webpage without a section devoted to lesson planning based on the standards? Take a walk through "unpacking" the Common Core Learning Standards and brainstorm the myriad ways that Common Core lesson planning easily fits in with what we already know is best for kids based on our classroom experience, and hopefully, based on the other three lessons linked on this page.
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In this presentation, you'll skim through the NYS CCLS Modules made by Expeditionary learning and, by cycling around Webb's DOK you'll look at the modules from a global, big-picture perspective, and then slowly zoom into a lesson-level vision of how the modules work in a classroom, for an actual teacher. Really, the goal is for students to come out with an accurate understanding of how the modules are organized, and what a module-based classroom could look like in both an "adopt" and an "adapt" district.
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