12 Common Core Tools For Teachers

The Council is focusing its resources on supporting teachers and teamsas they make their own professional decisions -- informed by reflectionand research -- about how best to foster literacy learning. "NCTE Past President Keith Gilyard NCTE offers , online learning, journal articles, lesson plans, and more to support your focus on keeping students at the center of instruction.

There are many ways to turn a huge pile of academic standards into learning activities, the most common of which is the "unit." I've talked before of chloroforming the grand old unit . It's not that there's anything wrong with the unit, any more than there's anything "wrong" with an abacus or a chalkboard.

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The enacted curriculum surveys provide teachers a detailed set of indicators that support teacher reflection on their instructional strategies and can inform their curriculum planning. Additionally, content analyses of various state and national assessments provide teachers information about the assessed curriculum in a manner that makes comparison to their own instruction easy.

A Common Core development template to plan units.

Common Core resources from the state of Illinois.

The transition to the Common Core Standards is likely the single most significant change in the last 10 years in American public education. While the English-Language Arts and Math haven't changed, what the standards say about those content areas-and their relative complexity and rigor-are indeed different.

This guide is a practical tool that teachers, and teacher-trainers, can use (and re-use!) in order to build fluency with the Common Core State Standards (CCSS).

Core Math Tools is a downloadable suite of interactive software tools for algebra and functions, geometry and trigonometry, and statistics and probability. The tools are appropriate for use with any high school mathematics curriculum

The states that make up the PARCC consortium are taking the exceptional step of releasing test items from this year’s PARCC assessment to give teachers a powerful tool to inform and improve classroom teaching and learning. The test items were built with robust mathematics problems and authentic reading passages selected and reviewed extensively by dozens of educators from PARCC states.