Tuesday is grade level teaming meetings. It is also the once a month meeting that Special Ed, ESL, and Title 1 attend. Thank you for you flexibility and patience.
Change can be hard, but it can also be exciting for growth opportunities. We definitely have several changes occurring in education right now with curriculum, assessments, demographics, environments, and others. Here is a short article and image with 9 items to consider as we approach each of those changes that we encounter:
9 Statements of Affirmation
This chart is from California, but it might be helpful when deciding which technology and digital skills to target when teaching common core state standards.
Digital Literacy and Technology Skills
We talked at WISE team on Monday about a mind shift. There is definitely a skill shift, but also a mind shift. Instead of starting with activities and lessons, going unit by unit or chapter by chapter, we are starting with the standards first. Then we determine assessments to help us determine whether students have shown mastery with those standards. Finally, we decide the activities and instruction. You may have seen/heard this from Wiggins and McTighe. Here are two handouts that explain this with the new common core standards. The second link has some fonts hard to read, but should still give a nice overview:
Understanding by Design Link 1
Understanding by Design Link 2
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