Greetings!

During this presentation, you'll learn to "do as little as needed, not as much as possible" (Henk Kraaijenhof) to meet the needs of the common core learning standards, and by extension, most of the Next Gen standards as well. 

We'll emphasize big-picture implementation knowledge that can easily apply to any grade level you end up teaching.

By forging connections between learning standards within a cognitive framework, it will be much easier to remember the standards themselves, and to recall that knowledge to look amazing during future interviews.

​Enjoy! 

Amazing drawing by Aurora Britton, a genuinely awesome human.

Learning Standard Links

Common Core Learning Standards

Next Gen Standards

Learn the Standards

Webb's DOK 1: Recall and Reproduction

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.

Learning Standards Mind Mapping

Webb's DOK 2: Skills and Concepts

Moving on up! Let's develop some skills to ensure we understand the concepts of the NextGen learning standards. At this point, we'll create a mind map of all the NextGen learning standards. I've added images to make the recall and reproduction more fluid. 

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After looking at ALL the NextGen standards for a single grade level, it only makes sense to look at a single standard longitudinally from grades 7-12. You'll discuss together, and utilize a strategy called "Dialectic Annotations" to capture your learning on the GoogleDoc itself.

Let's Plan a Lesson Like a Real Teacher

Webb's DOK 3: Short-Term Strategic Thinking

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.

Implications for Your Teaching

Webb's DOK 4: Extended Thinking

Let's get personal. How will these shifts affect your teaching?

Additional CCLS Materials:

Using Data to Justify Educational Choices

Text-Dependent Question Writing

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.

Common Core Vocabulary Connections

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. 

Standards-Based Lesson Planning

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.

Navigating the Common Core Modules

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.