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Using Common Core Language
High School ELA teacher Esther Wu explains how she uses the language of the Common Core to write objectives and assess her students. Esther shares how her students have begun to internalize and use the language of the Common Core with each other.
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Common Core for ELA and Literacy
See an introduction to the new Common Core state standards including background on the design process, key features, and major differences.
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Common Issues with Proportional Relationships
Students in Teri Walker's seventh grade math class work in pairs to determine proportional relationships between two quantities. First, the class works on a problem together. Then, the students work in pairs on a series of situation cards to determine which ones are proportional and which are not. Then, they
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Common Core State Standards for Math
See an introduction to the new Common Core state standards including background on the design process, key features, and major differences.
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Common Core: High School
Visit English and math classrooms who have already begun to adapt to the new Common Core standards. See what changes teachers are making in their practice to adapt to the new standards.
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Collaborating to Plan a Common Core Math Lesson
Gabby Vieth and Chuck Pack collaborate to plan a ninth grade geometry lesson about measuring the height of a flagpole. They reflect on how the lesson has gone in the past and make adjustments based on their current set of students. Gabby and Chuck discuss what tools to make available
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Common Core: Middle School
Visit English and math classrooms who have already begun to adapt to the new Common Core standards. See what changes teachers are making in their practice to adapt to the new standards.
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Unpacking Sample Assessment Items
Bonnie Hain and ELA teachers consider what can be learned from examining sample assessment items. They practice unpacking items in their grade level groups. They discuss what they learn from this process and how this learning will impact their instructional decisions.
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Assessing Text Complexity
Bonnie Hain and ELA teachers discuss what makes a text complex. Bonnie introduces PARCC's text complexity worksheet that teachers can use to assess texts. They discuss the importance of selecting and teaching complex texts to all students. They discover that teaching complex texts requires anticipating challenges and using scaffolding in
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Daily Assessment with Tiered Exit Cards
Marie Barchi models an effective process of formative assessment with her Algebra I students. During the lesson, Ms. Barchi assesses student readiness as they work problems so she can identify the type of exit card appropriate for each student based on where they are at in learning how to solve
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Text What You Learned: Using Technology to Assess
High School English Teacher Sarah Brown Wessling uses texting and word clouds to assess her students' learning. Using Poll Everywhere, Sarah has students text in what they learned in class. As students participate, their responses appear on the screen for everyone to see. After students have texted in their responses,
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Assessment Literacy: The Most Cost-Effective Cure for Our Schools
Improving the assessment literacy of educators is, hands-down, the most cost-effective way to improve the effectiveness of our schools.
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Transforming Assessment Into Authentic Engagement for 21st Century Learning
Learn assessment strategies and techniques designed to be integrated into your daily academic practice.
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The Stoplight Method: An End-of-Lesson Assessment
English Teacher Sarah Brown Wessling has her students complete exit slips to share what they learned, what questions they considered, and if anything stopped their learning. Students write their reflections on Post-it notes and place them on the green, yellow, or red parts of a stoplight. Sarah uses this data
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Assessing Students with Twitter-Style Exit Slips
Maria Perryman explains how she uses a Twitter style exit slip for formative assessment. At the end of class, she asks her students to answer one of three questions in 140 characters or less. She uses this slip to ask them questions about topics they explored in class. Because the
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Assess and Group
Mr. Yager uses assessment data and student relationships to encourage effective student collaboration. When grouping students for math tasks, he often groups students based on assessment data. However, his groups are fluid, and he will move students as they master tasks or encounter misconceptions. He also considers peer relationships when
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Student-to-Student Assessment
Students in Barbara Cleveland's 7th grade math class work in table groups to review their homework assignment. Students explain their thinking to their peers and ask one another clarifying questions. As students work, the teacher circulates from group to group to broadly assess what her students understand and where they
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Common Core: Elementary School
Visit English and math classrooms who have already begun to adapt to the new Common Core standards. See what changes teachers are making in their practice to adapt to the new standards.
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Common Core: PreK- 12
TCP03_302 - We'll start with Pre-K math students and finish up with high school English students as we explore the many ways Common Core is being integrated into classrooms--in both math and ELA the emphasis is teaching students how to think.
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Sharing Common Core Language with Students
Eighth grade ELA teacher Katie Novak uses the Common Core State Standards to communicate her expectations to students. Katie gives each student a copy of the CCSS and refers back to them as she teaches. Katie explicitly uses the language of the Common Core with her students, sharing the importance
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Teaching Others to Embrace Common Core
In this blog Sarah Brown Wessling and The Ignite Show's Anne Ostholthoff reflect on embracing the Common Core Standards.
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Adapting to the Common Core
High School literature teachers David Olio and Barbara Laurain reflect on the key shifts they've made when adapting to the Common Core State Standards. They discuss how the Core has caused them to move beyond asking basic who/what/where/when/why questions, how they plan with the end product in mind, and how
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Developing Common Core Habits
Jill Jackson leads a professional development session for teachers on developing Common Core habits. Jill focuses on two main habits: close reading and text-dependent responses. She explains how to adapt these habits when looking at art and teaching arts-integrated lessons.