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1. Common Core Implementation in the Classroom
2. You know you are in trouble when..
3. You are standing in front of the class and lecturing over
40% of the class time
4. Students are not engaged during guided practice or no guided
practice.
5. The chairs are in a straight row.
6. The overhead projector / smart board is your main
presentation mode (only one learning style is addressed).
7. The lesson is not student oriented (less teacher talk)
8. One word answer is the standard mode of student
response
9. No problems are being solved
10. No vocabulary introduced/integrated
11. No products or evidence are apparent to indicate that
students have learned the concept.
12. Only pencil and paper assessments are used.
13. Levels of questions are on the knowledge level (over
15%)
14. No application to real life situations to the concept or
skill being taught.
15. No essential question demonstrated/known to the teacher or
to the students or to the observer.
16. No comprehension skills demonstrated in content areas
(science-social studies)
17. The ELA content used is over 50% fiction
18. No linkage of the skills/content to other grades, academic
disciplines
19. The textbook guides what is being taught (beginning of the
book to the end-taught sequentially)
20. No use of themes in the texts/lessons
21. Not teaching the identified skills outlined from the
Standard Course of Study
22. Not doing cumulative review daily
23. When basic mathematical practices are not implemented
24. When writing is not taking place in all classrooms
25. When students are not working collaboratively to reach a
goal/answer an essential question
26. When technology is not being integrated across the
disciplines