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Showing 1 to 20 of 176 for “"Common Core"”.
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Embedding Story in the Common Core
This article addresses the Common Core Standards' focus on informational texts. It suggests that using informational texts that build arguments and information with narrative structure will create an engaging and effective classroom experience for students caught in this shift of standards.
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Common Core Math and Critical Reasoning
… for selected strands of math under the new Common Core Math Standards with their performance under the old California State Standards. Student scores from in-class tests and quizzes were comparatively analyzed over the duration of a year in one sixth grade classroom in Northern California. …
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Some Common Sense For The Common Core
<p>The arrival of the Common Core Curriculum has brought many changes into the educational world. These changes have been subtle in some cases and controversial in others. Much of the controversy lies in the testing policies put forward by the proponents of this new era in educational policy. In …
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Mathematics Curriculum Revised to Align to Common Core State Standards
The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) are the first set of national standards issued in the United States. Currently, all states are in the transition from implementing individual state standards to CCSS in ELA and mathematics. As the CCSS are being introduced and implemented into classrooms, …
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Using Inquiry to Teach the Common Core State Standards: Two Exemplars
… five essential strategies of implementing the Common Core State Standards through inquiry. The author classifies this lesson as a guided inquiry activity. Both lessons are aligned to the Algebra I Common Core State Standards (CCSS), but the concepts in both lessons are standard mathematical …
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Teachers' Experiences with the Implementation of the Common Core State Standards
… the implementation of the English Language Arts Common Core State Standards during the first two years of required implementation in a southwestern state. The focus of this study examined these experiences by answering three primary questions: (a) How are teachers experiencing the implementation …
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Toward a genre writing curriculum: Schooling genres in the Common Core State Standards
<p>The Common Core State Standards (CCSS), published in 2010 and adopted by the majority of U.S. states, established a set of expectations for student writing in K-12 education. In describing these expectations, the CCSS used three general “text type” classifications: Narrative, …
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Addressing the Higher Level Language Skills for the Common Core State Standards in Kindergarten
… for children’s success in school. With a common set of standards, the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), finalized and made available to states for adoption critical skills in numeracy and literacy will be uniformed from kindergarten through high school. Some children enter school with a …
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Teachers Adapting Common Core Informational-text Writing Instruction for Students With Mild to Moderate Disabilities
<p>With the adoption of the Common Core State Standards, students must now become skilled at using different types of writing to help them critique text and process information. They also are required to write informational text. Informational-text writing is challenging for students with mild to …
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Concerns of Elementary School Leaders and Teachers When Implementing a Common Core Aligned Mathematics Program
… school leaders and teachers when implementing a Common Core Learning Standards-aligned elementary mathematics curriculum in an age of accountability and reform; second, this research aims to identify the interventions that school leaders employ in response to the concerns of teachers.</p> <p>This …
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Revising Common Core Georgia Performance Standards Statistics Lesson Plans to Better Align with Statistical Practice
<p>In this thesis, lesson plans provided by the Georgia Department of Education are revised to give students better exposure and practice working with real-life data. Three learning tasks and a performance task are presented covering a unit lesson on statistical regression. The development of …
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The Relationship Between the Implementation of the Common Core State Standards and 21st Century Learning Skills
… community, of the imminent implementation of the Common Core State Standards in the elementary school classroom has been received with cautious fanfare. What will be the steps for implementation of the Common Core State Standards in the elementary school? How will the implementation of the Common …
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A Curriculum Project on Expressions and Equations in Mathematics 8 Aligned to the Common Core State Standards
In response to the implementation of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), this curriculum project was designed to help teachers with the transition to these standards. This curriculum project provides a unit plan on solving equations for the eighth grade curriculum, which is aligned to the …
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Common Core Canon vs Literary Canon: What Works, What Doesn’t, and What Teachers Can Do About It
The Common Core Canon is both a blessing and a curse to teachers across the nation, who are adapting to the new curriculum that the Common Core has brought to the forefront. These teachers are dealing with multiple moving pieces that are not easy to cope with, including novels that do not fit the …
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Common core thesis and a qualitative and quantitative analysis of mysticism in Chinese Buddhist monks and nuns
… mysticism across religions and cultures. Stace’s common facets of mysticism as measured by Hood’s scale successfully described Buddhist experience as modified by Buddhist doctrines. Confirmatory factor analysis demonstrated that these facets could be formed into Stace’s three-factor structure. A …
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LEADING CURRICULAR CHANGE: THE ROLE OF THE SCHOOL PRINCIPAL IN IMPLEMENTATION OF THE COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS
… standards-based reform is comprised within the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), which are currently fully implemented in 42 states. Despite the essential role of the school leader in implementation of standards-based reform, research is limited on how principals understand their role, and how …
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Zoom: The Changing Nature of Middle School Shared Instructional Leadership on the Way to the Common Core
… and performance found in the adoption of the Common Core State Standards. This dissertation describes the early CCSS implementation efforts of the middle schools in a Midwest suburban district. In particular, it examines the instructional leadership that was shared among the administrators and …
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Teacher Perceptions on Changing Instructional Practices in Mathematics with the Implementation of the Common Core State Standards
<p>As schools across the U.S. begin to implement Common Core State Standards in Mathematics (CCSSM), teachers must shift their instructional practices from a traditional emphasis on procedures and algorithms to a conceptually based model in which students engage more meaningfully with mathematical …
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