Preparing Preservice Teachers for the Common Core

Teacher’s Experiences, Perceptions, & Expectations of

the Common Core

Presented & Compiled by: Patricia DickensonNational University

Thursday, August 12, 2015

What do teachers think about CCSS?-

Encourage learners to think deeply

Students are being asked to discuss, comprehend & struggle

If implemented correctly this is monumental.

Agreed upon standards that that can be implemented locally is a whole lot better than NCLB

Reducing literature in schools is taking enlightenment out of education

We now have the capacity for inquiry base learning, social just focused lessons & culturally relevant

pedagogy

IDENTIFY WHAT STUDENTS SHOULD KNOW & DO

• Identify the verbs (skills): What do the students have to do (perform)?

• Identify the nouns (concepts and contents): What do the students have to know/produce (thing)?

UNPACK A STANDARD

What every teacher needs to know:

Key Ideas and Details:CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.3.1Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.3.2Determine the main idea of a text; recount the key details and explain how they support the main idea.CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.3.3Describe the relationship between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text, using language that pertains to time, sequence, and cause/effect.

Grade 3: ELA

Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources, using search terms effectively; assess the credibility and accuracy of each source; and quote or paraphrase the data and conclusions of others while avoiding plagiarism and following a standard format for citation.

Writing Standard 7.8What do students need to know and be able to do?

Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources, using search terms effectively; assess the credibility and accuracy of each source; and quote or paraphrase the data and conclusions of others while avoiding plagiarism and following a standard format for citation.

Writing Standard 7.8What do students need to do? (verbs)

Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources, using search terms effectively; assess the credibility and accuracy of each source; and quote or paraphrase the data and conclusions of others while avoiding plagiarism and following a standard format for citation.

Writing Standard 7.8What do students need to produce? (Noun)

3 Major Shifts in ELA

1. Regular Practice with Complex Text & their Academic Language

2. Reading, Writing & Speaking Grounded in Evidence from Text both literary & informational

3. Building Knowledge through Content-Rich Nonfiction

3 Major Shifts in Math

1. Greater focus on fewer topics 2. Coherence linking topics and thinking across grades.

3. Rigor pursue conceptual knowledge, procedural fluency, and application with equal intensity

Grade 3: MathCCSS.MATH.CONTENT.3.NBT.A.2Fluently add and subtract within 1000 using strategies and algorithms based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction.

How many ways can you show the sum of 62 and 26?

RTI & Common Core

What Skills do Pre-Service Teachers Need? • Design assessment and assignments that

meet the needs of ALL learners.• Create authentic tasks to engage learners in

mastery of a standard.• Analyze student responses to a task and

provide feedback.• Demonstrate strategies for reinforcing

academic vocabulary.• Use technology to collaborate,

communicate, demonstrate and have students produce a product.

• Analyze and interpret student data.• Support student misconceptions and ask

questions to guide the learner.• Unpack a standard & align across grade

levels, learning theory & child development.

• Relevant Models who practice what they preach

• Understand what it means to be a facilitator and guide the students in open-ended and rigorous lesson.

WHY DO WE NEED TO CHANGE EDUCATION?

Our Future Depends on It

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

-Albert Einstein

THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE TODAY & CHOOSING TO MAKE OUR PROGRAM ONE THAT WILL SHAPE OUR FUTURE!