dave forrest's List: commoncore

The Turnitin Company has designed Common Core rubrics for the three main types of writing. They have used the language of the common core standards in their descriptors. It may be useful to look at this work as we think about developing rubrics for our writing tasks.

Here is our agenda for our two days of meetings.

I will use this slideshow during our two day US Team meeting.

Some of our students will be receiving Chromebooks this fall. Here is a summary of the recent professional development days, with specific connections to Chromebook integration into social studies classes. For example, we learned about the Google Research Panel, which allows students to find and cite Internet sources into documents.

Alida found this source on evaluating web pages. The common core emphasizes writing from multiple sources, so this might be used or adapted to help our students evaluate the authenticity of sources.

Rubistar might help us make rubrics related to the type of writing we choose to assign and grade.

The Teaching Channel has created a variety of videos of model lessons. In this video, Reading Like a Historian: Contextualization, the teacher takes her students through a close reading of primary sources by Gandhi and Ho Chi Minh, with an emphasis on getting students to understand the historical context for each document. The series also contains an overview and videos on historical sourcing and corroboration.

The Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium are the assessments that California is adopting. This website, originally shown to us by Mary, includes sample test items.

An on-line version of the Common Core State Standards.

The NEA's perspective on the Common Core. It includes contrasting facts with myths about the common core and some specific examples of the current educational shifts in reading and writing.

America Achieves is a repository of videos, websites, and lessons on the Common Core.

NHUSD sent out a Common Core Lesson Plan Template last spring.

In spring NHUSD published its Guidelines for Literacy which stated, "Beginning in the fall of 2013, NHUSD teachers will use the Common Core State Standards as the outcomes measures to assess student learning. Teacher grade and subject teams will develop units/lessons of study framed by and aligned to the CCSS and embedded in disciplinary content."

The US History team will be engaging in action research. We will make plans, design lessons and assessments, look at student work, and then evaluate our work in preparation for the following year. This short article provides an overview of the process.

I often forget the formal terminology for various types of assessments. These short web articles helped me with definitions.

I often forget the formal terminology for various types of assessments. These short web articles helped me with definitions.

I often forget the formal terminology for various types of assessments. These short web articles helped me with definitions.

I've created a web page for my EL US History class which contains presentations, worksheets, reading guides and activities for my EL students. Students can access the web page if they are absent or during the class period for various activities.

Jeff sent this link which contains over one hundred short videos on US History topics. Some of these videos might be appropriate to supplement our courses and could be used in a "flipped teaching" scenario, where students view the videos at night in preparation for class room activities the next day.

NHUSD will be moving to the Illuminate Information program. It replaces Data Director in many ways. For our purposes Illuminate will give us the capability of creating and sharing test and quizzes for our students. This tool may help us collectively develop a test bank or various assessments for our history classes.