common core implementation in the classroom 1
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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
- 27. WHEN YOU ARE NOT AWARE OF THE NEW STANDARDS!!
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