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Critical Literacy Across the Curriculum

A Principal's Reflections

You will hear from a science teacher, a social studies teacher, and an art teacher as each provides her take on how the Common Core and 21st Century learning goals affect what goes on in the classroom. We have neither the training to assess such skills nor the language to develop such assessments. But we need help.

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6 Ways to Make Classroom Typing Fun

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6.6 ) By 3rd grade, Common Core discusses the use of keyboarding to produce work, i.e., CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.3.6 which specifically mentions ‘use technology to produce and publish writing (using keyboarding skills)’ keyboarding is required to take Common Core Standards assessments in the Spring. for example.

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Fun Assessment for Silent Sustained Reading

Catlin Tucker

The challenge for me was to design an “assessment” that was meaningful. I had tried everything from the traditional book report style assessment to more creative movie trailers, but I didn’t feel like they accomplished what I wanted from a silent sustained reading assessment. Sans the wine, of course.)

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Core Tech for Learning with ELA Common Core #ISTE2014

wwwatanabe

One of the #ISTE2014 sessions I attended was "Core technologies for the Common Core" by Kyle Brumbaugh and Elizabeth Calhoon. They had a great introduction to the Common Core and a plethora of helpful tools. Evernote : This tool is great for note taking, keeping documents organized, and annotating documents.

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Communicating a Concept With Instagram

A Principal's Reflections

In your comment for both photos, you will quote the lines accurately and include the parenthetical documentation for the act, scene, and page number. A rubric as well as the Common Core Standards that are to be assessed can be found HERE. A person should be willing to do a job he/she hates to provide for their family.

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Need a New Job? Here’s What You Do

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Rather than a two-page printed document that can be lost and serves only one user, a digital portfolio posts your resume online, in an easy-to-understand format. Include not only the step-by-step, but samples, artifacts, assessment strategies, feedback from students and parents, and reflections from you after it’s completed. .

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What is Actively Learn and Why Should I Try it?

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Actively Learn is a freemium online education platform that allows students to read a book (or some other document), make comments, answer questions posed by the teacher, and even collaborate with others. These nicely replace the quick formative assessments that are currently so popular (and time-consuming) in classes.

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