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Math in the Common Core Classroom
Middle school math teacher Crystal Morey explains how she uses Common Core math in her classroom. Crystal explains how she puts the focus on strategies rather than the right answers and shares how she encourages students to learn from each other's work.
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Strengthening Lessons for the Common Core
Sasheen Phillips, Alissa Peltzman and peer review panelists give an overview of using the EQuIP rubric for aligning and evaluating Common Core lessons. They explain the history of the rubric, the dimensions of the rubric, and the peer review process. They discuss how it's being used by EQuIP's volunteer peer
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Owning the Common Core Math Practices
Middle school math coach Audra McPhillips helps her students understand the Common Core math practices through discussion and daily reflection. Audra explains how she shares Common Core language with her students and has them think about how they've used the practices each day.
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Common Core Questions- Answered!
Across the country, teachers are actively making changes in their classroom practices to reflect the expectations of the Common Core State Standards. To say the roll-out of the Standards has been flawless would be untrue. In the years since the introduction of Common Core, there has been controversy and confusion
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Teaching Novels in the Common Core Era
The teaching of literature, and novels in particular, has been a subject of some controversy and confusion since the advent of the Common Core.
The standards' call for a greater percentage of informational text (increasing from an equal percentage of informational and literary in fourth grade, to 70% informational and 30%
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Common Core Math: Differentiating for Special Education
The teachers at Tahlequah High School in Tahlequah, Oklahoma are committed to making sure all of their students receive engaging and rigorous math instruction. After realizing that some of their ninth graders weren't ready to take Algebra 1, they created an Algebra Skills class. In this class, students (many of
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Common Core Math Playlist: Engaging Students with “Productive Struggle”
Editor's Note: Math teachers across the country are learning the power of formative assessment in their classrooms. In this video series, we bring you an opportunity to see formative assessment in action, with the help of math consultant Ann Shannon and resources from the Mathematics Assessment Project (MAP). Ann provided
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Video Playlist: Strengthening Lessons for the Common Core
As you are setting up your classroom, planning your units, or perhaps already teaching (yikes!), you're probably digging through last year's lesson plans. As you look through those plans, you may be thinking, "Wow, this was a fantastic lesson!" Or, perhaps you're thinking, "Hmmm... this lesson could use a little
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Video Playlist: Collaborating to Plan Common Core Lessons for ELLs
We've partnered with the National Education Association (NEA) on a new series aiming to show some of the "invisible work" that goes into successful teaching. In this series, called Practice, Planning & Collaboration Around the Common Core State Standards, we get to see the end-result classroom lessons and the planning
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What Do 500,000 Teachers Have In Common?
We are all members of the Teaching Channel community! Just today registration passed the half million mark. And there is something else 500,000 of us share: a passionate belief that teachers should be honored for the hard work and dedication demanded by this profession.
The 22 of us who work at
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Talking to Parents About the Common Core (Resources & Tips)
Sometimes I think we get so busy trying to unpack and implement Common Core that we forget one of our important roles in making this implementation stick: helping our larger communities, especially parents, to understand it, too. With back-to-school nights on the horizon and parent communications getting underway, we wanted
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September is Common Core Q&A Month!
As the new school year begins, many teachers throughout America will be implementing the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for the first time. But we've been hearing from you, our growing community on Teaching Channel, that many teachers feel uncertain about the "right" way to do this. So we're very
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Building Common Core Skills: Beyond "Turn and Talk"
Recently, I have been spending quality time with the Common Core Standards. My current obsessions are text complexity, close reading, and the speaking and listening standards. Starting at first grade, students are expected to know and be able to do the following during small- and whole-group discussions: follow participation rules, build
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3 Strategies for Bringing Argument and Critique into Common Core Math Classes
Math is supposed to be cut and dried, right? Do the work, find the one correct answer, and… you're done.
We must retire this way of thinking. The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) in mathematics call for shifts in depth, focus, and rigor.
In my last Tch Blog post, I examined the
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Are Teachers Ready for Common Core?
Each year the MetLife Foundation conducts the important Survey of the American Teacher offering a temperature reading of perceptions related to our educational system. While in the past, they've focused on facets such as teacher preparation, parental involvement or even professional development, this year they zeroed in on the complexities
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A Common Core Challenge You Can Tackle: Mathematical Discourse
Mathematical discourse has been articulated as one of the Common Core Mathematical Practices: construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others. Sounds stuffy and maybe even intimidating, right?
Not necessarily.
My teaching is heavily influenced by John Seely Brown and Daniel Pink, who encourage teachers to incorporate more creativity and "playful
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The Key to Unlocking Common Core Standards in Mathematics
In the beginning stages of Common Core implementation for Mathematics, it is only natural for teachers to examine the shifts in content. We are driven to answer the question, "Exactly what skills do I have to teach?"
But if we are truly going to meet the requirements of the Common Core
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Debunking 5 Common Core Myths
You've heard the adage: one step forward, two steps back. Sometimes I think that's how we all feel when confronted with change, especially the kind of change that quickly gets swept up by debate, speculation, and confusion. Even though the Common Core State Standards have been met with a great
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Responding to Concerns: Does the Common Core Demoralize Teachers?
"If we want uncommon learning for our children in a time of common standards, we must be willing to lower the voices of discontent that threaten to overpower a teaching force who is learning a precise, deliberate, and cohesive practice." – Sarah Brown Wessling, Huffington Post, February 2013
Recently I began
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You Want More Common Core!
I get so excited when our Tchers' Voice Survey results come in. I can't wait to see what you have to tell us. With our latest July survey the message was very clear: you want more Common Core!
79% of you selected the Common Core State Standards as one of the
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Top 10 Common Core Insider Secrets
Even though it's just two years old, the Common Core has made a profound entrance into our teaching lives. As you get ready for another school year where understanding and implementation of the standards has become even more pressing, Teaching Channel has been developing helpful, free resources for you!
I continue
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Assessment Diaries: Aligning Classwork to the New Assessments
Editor's Note: Teaching Channel has partnered with Student Achievement Partners on a blog series about the new assessments aligned to the Common Core State Standards. Learn more about this series.
THIS WEEK'S TOPIC
How do Common Core-aligned assessments relate to your work in the classroom?
TEACHER NOTES FROM THE FIELD
Cay Freeman: Grade 6-8
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Assessment Diaries: Incorporate Technology Into Your Assessment Practices
Editor's Note: Teaching Channel has partnered with Student Achievement Partners on a blog series about the new assessments aligned to the Common Core State Standards. Learn more about this series.
THIS WEEK'S TOPIC
How have you and your school helped students prepare for computer-based assessments this spring? What have you learned as you have incorporated technology
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Assessment Diaries: Why New Assessments?
Editor's Note: Teaching Channel has partnered with Student Achievement Partners on a blog series about the new assessments aligned to the Common Core State Standards. Learn more about this series.
THIS WEEK'S TOPIC
As a teacher, why do you think we need new assessments? What needs to be true of these new assessments so
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The Assessment Diaries: Teacher Perspectives on How New Assessments Can Fuel Learning
Editor's Note: Teaching Channel has partnered with Student Achievement Partners on a blog series about the new assessments aligned to the Common Core State Standards. They have assembled a group of teachers who have either tried aligned sample assessment questions with their students or have participated in field testing of