Georgia Public Broadcasting’s Teachers Ignite produced special episodes of “The Ignite Show” featuring state teachers of the year bringing the Common Core into the classroom. These shows were developed by the National Network of State Teachers of the Year and The Hunt Institute in partnership with the American Federation of Teachers, the National Education Association, and the National PTA.
These professional development videos were developed by the Council of Great City Schools for central office and school-based staff and teachers as an introduction to the instructional shifts required by the CCSS. The videos feature some of the content writers speaking about the CCSS at professional development conferences hosted by the Council.
Developed by the American Federation of Teachers and TES Connect, Share My Lesson’s Common Core Information Center offers facts, figures, and tips about the CCSS and high-quality resources aligned to the standards across all subjects.
Teaching Channel offers a free library of high-quality videos featuring real teachers demonstrating their best educational practices. The large library of CCSS videos includes tags that specify the exact standards to which a lesson is aligned.
Common Core in Practice: Great Teachers Demonstrate Moving to Deeper Learning
America Achieves developed a series of videos demonstrating effective instruction aligned to the Common Core. These five videos show how teachers are putting the new standards into practice in their classrooms and how enthusiastically their students are responding.
Student Achievement Partners’ website offers a variety of free, high-quality materials to help educators align their instruction to the Common Core State Standards and raise student achievement. Resources include materials and guides aligned to the standards, essential actions for school and district leaders, professional development modules, and information on how educators can support the CCSS outside of the school.
Developed by ASCD, the EduCore tool provides secondary teachers with high-quality teaching and learning resources aligned to the CCSS.
The National Education Association’s Common Core Working Group produced this toolkit to ensure members have the knowledge and understanding necessary to prepare for the implementation of CCSS.
I love all of these resources, but I just wish we had more time to dive into them! I guess that's the heart cry of every teacher! Hehe. I will definitely add this blog post to my to-do list, and take some time to pick apart these resources to see what I can use! I watched the Implementing CCSS in ELA and Literacy video. I actually knew more about CCSS than I thought I did! I can definitely see the value in the shift away from narrative writing. This might be the thing I'm most excited about. One of the speakers said, "It's very rare that students have to read something on their own, address some questions about what they just read.... no guidance from us.... which, of course, is exactly what they do in college. But we have to hold them more accountable to learning from text independently. If this is not done in Science and Social Studies, then this whole thing will completely fail." I appreciate him saying this because I feel (at least in 6th grade) the focus has gone way away from Science and Social Studies. That's definitely going to be a must-change situation. Good video! Lots to think about! :)
ReplyDeleteThanks for all of your amazing resources! You guys are great!