Common Core State Standards Professional Learning Modules Common Core Content Standards for ELA: Overview PowerPoint Presentation CCSS: Overview of the Common Core State Standards for California Educators California's Common Core Standards An Introduction for Teachers - English Language Arts and Literacy in History/Social Science
Common Core in Action: Narrative Writing Common Core in Action: Argumentative Writing is a Key Focus in Common Core Standards |
| PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT |
Common Core State Standards Professional Learning Modules
http://myboe.org/portal/default/Group/Viewer/GroupView?action=2&gid=2996
This series of professional development was created through collaborative efforts between the California Department of Education and content and professional learning experts throughout California to help educators transition to the Common Core State Standards. Here is a set of modules that will be completed by September 2013, and are available in both online and on-site professional learning formats.
Common Core Content Standards for ELA: Overview PowerPoint Presentation
http://www.ccsesa.org/index/sp_CommonCoreStandards.cfm
At the site, scroll to the title listed for the initial PowerPoint with notes developed to introduce the Common Core State Standards in ELA in 2011 and updated in mid 2012. This is a starting point for teachers, administrators, and parents. The introductory information on the CCSS.org website is based on this document.
CCSS: Overview of the Common Core State Standards for California Educators
http://myboe.org/portal/default/Content/Viewer/Content?action=2&scId=306588
This is a video professional development module describing how the Common Core Standards are different from the previous California standards.
California's Common Core Standards An Introduction for Teachers - English Language Arts and Literacy in History/Social Science
and Science and Technical Subjects
http://www.ccsesa.org/index/sp_CommonCoreStandards.cfm
This is another of the early introductory PowerPoints on the meaning of the Common Core State Standards reform developed for teachers of grades 6 through 12 and updated in mid 2012. The goal of the reform is stated as “All students are college and career ready in literacy by no later than the end of high school. “
CCSS ELA: Reading Informational Text
http://myboe.org/portal/default/Content/Viewer/Content?action=2&scId=306592
This CCSS video module deals with reading literature and informational text, dimensions of text complexity, and how to support student comprehension
of informational text.
CCSS ELA: Writing to Inform, Argue, and Analyze
http://www.myboe.org/portal/default/Content/Viewer/Content?action=2&scId=504695
This CCSS video module deals with understanding and teaching the common core writing standards, planning lessons for informational and argumentative writing, and learning from students’ work and teachers’ lessons.
Common Core in Action: Narrative Writing
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/common-core-in-action-narrative-writing-heather-wolpert-gawron
Blogger Heataher Wolpert-Gawron offers a deeply engaging way to integrate H-SS content into a mixed genre of narrative/informational writing through historical fiction as a method to support implementation of Common Core ELA Standards.
Common Core in Action: Argumentative Writing is a Key Focus in Common Core Standards
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/common-core-standards-persuasive-writing-heather-wolpert-gawron
Writing persuasively is a key skill for college and career readiness regardless of the path a student takes. Here are three ways of looking at the skill through thesis, evidence, and commentary.
LACOE - Common Core State Standards Workshop Materials
http://commoncore.lacoe.edu/resources/trainings.php#p022513
This set of workshop resources, especially those on English Language Arts, provides useful materials for elementary, middle and high school social studies teachers to integrate H-SS content with Common Core ELA Standards skills.
Aligning Materials and Curriculum
http://achievethecore.org/leadership-tools-common-core/aligning-materials/
Here are tools for evaluating and developing Common Core-aligned materials, as well as free Common Core-aligned resources.
Identifying Common Core in the Classroom
http://achievethecore.org/leadership-tools-common-core/instructional-practice/
This webpage has Evidence Guides: Common Core-aligned practice made clear. These tools provide specific guidance for what the Common Core State
Standards for ELA / literacy and math look like in planning and practice. They are designed as developmental tools for teachers and those who support
teachers.
Teaching Channel
https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos?page=4&categories=subjects_history-social-sciences&load=4
Here are brief videos of classrooms in action. This link is to the series of H-SS videos that demonstrate the types of learning and thinking that are in the
Common Core State Standards. Included are clips of classrooms using various elements of “reading like an historian,” active inquiry, analysis of non
traditional reading materials such as maps, charts, film, and art and responding to real events, and much more.
Below are videos that demonstrate other strategies that are applicable to common core in a H-SS setting. The Teaching Channel site is rapidly expanding
so continually revisit the site for more ideas.
- See more at: http://www.ccss.org/page-1630321#sthash.KCYh4IVm.dpufRead /Discuss Debate: Evaluating Arguments
https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/evaluating-both-sides-of-argument?fd=1Socratic Seminar: Supporting Claims and Counterclaims
Evidence & Arguments: Lesson Reflection
https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/using-socratic-seminars-in-classroom
https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/evidence-arguments-lesson-reflection
Getting Ready to Write Using Textual Evidence-Child Labor
https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/teaching-about-textual-evidence?fd=1Exploring Copyrights and Wrongs
https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/teaching-students-copyright?fd=1
email the URL and short descriptor to drpeghill@verizon.net
for review.
| Common Core & Social Studies Professional Development |
Common Core State Standards Professional Learning Modules
http://myboe.org/portal/default/Group/Viewer/GroupView?action=2&gid=2996
This series of professional development was created through collaborative efforts between the California Department of Education and content and professional learning experts throughout California to help educators transition to the Common Core State Standards. Here is a set of modules that will be completed by September 2013, and
are available in both online and on-site professional learning formats.
Common Core Content Standards for ELA: Overview PowerPoint Presentation
http://www.ccsesa.org/index/sp_CommonCoreStandards.cfm
At the site, scroll to the title listed for the initial PowerPoint with notes developed to introduce the Common Core State Standards in ELA in 2011 and updated in mid 2012. This is a starting point for teachers, administrators, and parents. The introductory information on the CCSS.org website is based on this document.
http://myboe.org/portal/default/Content/Viewer/Content?action=2&scId=306588
This is a video professional development module describing how the Common Core Standards are different from the previous California standards.
California's Common Core Standards An Introduction for Teachers - English Language Arts and Literacy in History/Social Science
and Science and Technical Subjects
http://www.ccsesa.org/index/sp_CommonCoreStandards.cfm
This is another of the early introductory PowerPoints on the meaning of the Common Core State Standards reform developed for teachers of grades 6 through 12 and updated in mid 2012. The goal of the reform is stated as “All students are college and career ready in literacy by no later than the end of high school. “
Common Core ELA Literacy - Shift 1: Balancing Informational Text and Literature
http://www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/engny.pd.ccvs.ela3/common-core-in-ela-literacy-shift-1-pk-5-balancing-informational-text-and-literature/
As you watch this video focused on the Common Core's increased emphasis on Informational text, plan with colleagues how to enrich the curriculum with text sets of various genre of fiction and non fiction reading selections on key history-social science topics for your grade level.
http://myboe.org/portal/default/Content/Viewer/Content?action=2&scId=306592
This CCSS video module deals with reading literature and informational text, dimensions of text complexity, and how to support student comprehension of informational text.
Elements of Informational Text
http://www.learnnc.org/lp/multimedia/19273
In this University of North Carolina video, classroom footage and teacher interviews explore the features of nonfiction texts and illustrate how instruction with nonfiction differs from instruction using fictional texts. Of particular interest is the lesson on the difference between history and historical fiction. It links to two other relevant videos and an article.
http://www.myboe.org/portal/default/Content/Viewer/Content?action=2&scId=504695
This CCSS video module deals with understanding and teaching the common core writing standards, planning lessons for informational and argumentative writing, and learning from students’ work and teachers’ lessons.
Common Core in Action: Narrative Writing
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/common-core-in-action-narrative-writing-heather-wolpert-gawron
Blogger Heataher Wolpert-Gawron offers a deeply engaging way to integrate H-SS content into a mixed genre of narrative/informational writing through historical fiction
as a method to support implementation of Common Core ELA Standards.
Common Core in Action: Argumentative Writing is a Key Focus in Common Core Standards
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/common-core-standards-persuasive-writing-heather-wolpert-gawron
Writing persuasively is a key skill for college and career readiness regardless of the path a student takes. Here are three ways of looking at the skill through thesis,
evidence, and commentary.
Elements of Informational Text
http://www.learnnc.org/lp/multimedia/19273
In this University of North Carolina video, classroom footage and teacher interviews explore the features of nonfiction texts and illustrate how instruction with nonfiction differs from instruction using fictional texts. Of particular interest is the lesson on the difference between history and historical fiction. It links to two other relevant videos and an article.
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/pbl-role-shift-to-ccss-sara-hallermann
This Edutopia blog article by Sara Hallermann from the Buck Institute describes six ways the Problem-Based Learning is aligned to the thinking and practice of Common Core Standards.
LACOE - Common Core State Standards Workshop Materials
http://commoncore.lacoe.edu/resources/trainings.php#p022513
This set of workshop resources, especially those on English Language Arts, provides useful materials for elementary, middle and high school social studies teachers to integrate H-SS content with Common Core ELA Standards skills.
Aligning Materials and Curriculum
http://achievethecore.org/leadership-tools-common-core/aligning-materials/
Here are tools for evaluating and developing Common Core-aligned materials, as well as free Common Core-aligned resources.
http://achievethecore.org/leadership-tools-common-core/instructional-practice/
This webpage has Evidence Guides: Common Core-aligned practice made clear. These tools provide specific guidance for what the Common Core State
Standards for ELA / literacy and math look like in planning and practice. They are designed as developmental tools for teachers and those who support
teachers.
Teaching Channel
https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos?page=4&categories=subjects_history-social-sciences&load=4
Here are brief videos of classrooms in action. This link is to the series of H-SS videos that demonstrate the types of learning and thinking that are in the
Common Core State Standards. Included are clips of classrooms using various elements of “reading like an historian,” active inquiry, analysis of non
traditional reading materials such as maps, charts, film, and art and responding to real events, and much more.
Below are videos that demonstrate other strategies that are applicable to common core in a H-SS setting. The Teaching Channel site is rapidly expanding
so continually revisit the site for more ideas.
Read /Discuss Debate: Evaluating Arguments
https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/evaluating-both-sides-of-argument?fd=1Socratic Seminar: Supporting Claims and Counterclaims
Evidence & Arguments: Lesson Reflection
https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/using-socratic-seminars-in-classroom
https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/evidence-arguments-lesson-reflection
Getting Ready to Write Using Textual Evidence-Child Labor
Exploring Copyrights and Wrongs
https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/teaching-about-textual-evidence?fd=1
https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/teaching-students-copyright?fd=1