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Pathway to the Common Core question

by Linda

Jul 25, 2012

To those of you who have read the book, are there any performance tasks in there that would make it worthwhile for me to purchase?

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Linda Judy, truthfully I don't understand myself. I just spent 2 days in training on this and I walked away confused. It's something like research but the way we were doing it was we looked at the ela and math standards as well as the science/social studies state framework and tried to do multiple standards and objectives in one project. They were saying...See More

Jul 26, 2012

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LS The training I attended yesterday in Hills. Co., Fl. gave an example of a performance task as two questions following a short reading of a larger text that required the student to cite evidence in the text for their answer. I feel that will be the new buzz words "cite the evidence" after "turn and talk" of course (hehe)

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Jul 26, 2012

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Linda This is exactly what I feared would happen. What you were told is like what appendix b has. But that's not what we were told. Interpretation is everything even though we are all supposed to be "on the same page."

On 7/26/12, LS wrote: > The training I attended yesterday in Hills. Co., Fl. gave an > example of a performance task as tw...See More

Jul 26, 2012

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LS On 7/26/12, Linda wrote: > Judy, truthfully I don't understand myself. I just spent 2 days > in training on this and I walked away confused. It's something > like research but the way we were doing it was we looked at the > ela and math standards as well as the science/social studies > state framework and tried to do multiple standar...See MoreOn 7/26/12, Linda wrote: > Judy, truthfully I don't understand myself. I just spent 2 days > in training on this and I walked away confused. It's something > like research but the way we were doing it was we looked at the > ela and math standards as well as the science/social studies > state framework and tried to do multiple standards and objectives > in one project. They were saying something about the students > would do three of these in a 9 week period. There are a few > examples in appendix b of the common core standards but that is > NOT the way we were being taught. What we were shown was > something like a unit. I wish I could explain better, sorry :( >

Linda, It sounds like your group is trying to be helpful and put together units of study that include the CC Standards. The performance tasks of those readings are to be similar in nature to the performance tasks in appendix B. I purchased a membership to the common core mapping project which is putting together units of study like your group is suggesting. You can preview what they've done so far at [link removed]

I honestly do not see this as a major shift in my teaching. Citing evidence from the text has always been a focus during discussion and in written responses. We use the McGraw/Hill basal series Treasures and when using the Weekly Skills test (typically not on a weekly basis) the hardest part and the most important part to discuss with students is the written response portion where the question must be answered using details from the text.

I'd love to hear more about what other districts are saying and how they plan to implement Common Core. I just heard that we are not going towards a national test but instead states with PARC will take a PARC test and those with SMARTER will take one created by them. I thought one of points of this system was to then be able to compare states' progress. Which then makes me feel like we are a pawns in someone's nefarious scheme with the public TOTALLY uninfomred. Sorry- new tangent I'll reserve opinion on:)

Jul 28, 2012

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Linda I looked at your link. The samples look great but I'm still puzzled. I don't know if I'm supposed to change and just do stuff like on the link or what. I guess my district will tell me. But this I do know--I have read the appendix carefully (close reading I guess you would call it) and frankly I don't see what my district is talking about with what...See More

Jul 28, 2012

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