Understanding Teachers' Experiences, Perceptions and Expectations of the Common Core and how we can support our Pre-Service Teachers.

1. Teacher’s Experiences,
Perceptions, & Expectations of
the Common Core
Presented & Compiled by: Patricia
Dickenson
National University
Thursday, August 12, 2015

3. What do teachers think about CCSS?
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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

5. 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:

6. Key Ideas and Details:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.3.1
Ask and answer questions to demonstrate
understanding of a text, referring explicitly to
the text as the basis for the answers.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.3.2
Determine the main idea of a text; recount the
key details and explain how they support the
main idea.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.3.3
Describe 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

7. 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 7.8
What do students need to and be able to ?

8. 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 7.8
What do students need to do? (verbs)

9. 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 7.8
What do students need to produce? (Noun)

12. 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

17. 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

19. Grade 3: Math
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.3.NBT.A.2
Fluently 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?

29. RTI & Common Core

32. 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.

33. WHY DO WE NEED TO CHANGE
EDUCATION?

34. Our Future Depends on It

35. 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!