A day of Common Core training
To follow is an excerpt of a post written by a teacher who experienced a day of training for the Common Core Standards (CCS).
We began the pivot toward the actual point of the by re-affirming that how we teach should be how we assess. Don’t do a project and then give a test– use the project as the actual assessment. Not for the last time today, I could see that if you squint your eyes and look at the good parts of CCSS (what I like to call “things good teachers already do”) it provides, all on its own, a pretty strong indictment of the high stakes testing program that is its conjoined twin.
Today the state of Pennsylvania provided me with some CCSS training (well, not exactly, but we’ll get to that). This blog post will probably be on the long side and perhaps not as entertaining, but for those of you who are wondering what some of this stuff looks like up close, let me give you a look. Today’s training is:
Depth of Knowledge through Performance Tasks (presented in partnership with the Common Core Institute)
Training today involved about seventy teachers and administrators at the Intermediate Unit office (in PA, there are regional field offices for the PA DOE) in the Hemlock Room. Yes, just like the poison you drink if you’re an ancient Greek philosopher who