...Educator Guide to the 2014 Grade 7 Common Core English Language Arts Test THE UNIVERSITY OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK Regents of The University MERRYL H. TISCH, Chancellor, B.A., M.A., Ed.D. ................................................................ ANTHONY S. BOTTAR, Vice Chancellor, B.A., J.D. ............................................................... ROBERT M. BENNETT, Chancellor Emeritus, B.A., M.S. ....................................................... JAMES C. DAWSON, A.A., B.A., M.S., Ph.D. .......................................................................... GERALDINE D. CHAPEY, B.A., M.A., Ed.D. ........................................................................... HARRY PHILLIPS, 3rd, B.A., M.S.F.S. .................................................................................... JAMES R. TALLON, Jr., B.A., M.A. .......................................................................................... ROGER B. TILLES, B.A., J.D. ................................................................................................... CHARLES R. BENDIT, B.A. ..................................................................................................... BETTY A. ROSA, B.A., M.S. in Ed., M.S. in Ed., M.Ed., Ed.D. ............................................. LESTER W. YOUNG, Jr., B.S., M.S., Ed.D. .............................................................................. CHRISTINE D. CEA, B.A., M.A., Ph.D. .......................
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...Matt on Common Core Standards This is for student's from 6-8th grade in Language Arts. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.WHST.6-8.1.E Provide a concluding statement or section that follows from and supports the argument presented. "The Common Core is a set of high-quality academic standards in mathematics and English language arts/literacy (ELA). These learning goals outline what a student should know and be able to do at the end of each grade. The standards were created to ensure that all students graduate from high school with the skills and knowledge necessary to succeed in college, career, and life, regardless of where they live." (http://www.corestandards.org/ELA-Literacy/) This common core standard is for the conclusion of arguments and reports for students. It is placed to gauge the conclusion of thoughts on these reports. The expectations of this common core standard is to assess the students and how well they finish off their thoughts and then recap the piece. The academic impact of this common core standard is to ensure that students are completing their assignments in a standard up to par with 6th through 8th graders. Differentiated instruction is imperative for these common core standards because as teachers we are always evolving. Much like our students are always different, every student learns in different. Differentiated instruction allows us a professionals find the best way to teach your pupil and every student equally so that everybody is on the same pace...
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...Common Core State Standards and Differentiated Classrooms KaTayla Evans Instruct Strat for Differentiated Teach and Learn EDU 673 Alan Belcher 9/11/2017 Standards for Mathematics The common core standards for mathematic is a skill that children will need from kindergarten all the way up in till college and career. The common core mathematic is divided into two set, mathematic practices and mathematic content. Mathematic practice is a standard that student are engaged into and they grow in maturity from kindergarten through high school. Also with mathematic its purpose is to help with learning and engaging the content in a meaningful way, the goals are most likely to change the mindset of student and as well as the teachers. Mathematic content...
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...in a web of dreams. However hearing this my ears perk up, like a dog barking at the mailman, I drag my head up, eyes adjusting to the light, brain rebooting, I raise my somewhat limp and half extended hand up. I asked so you mean to tell us that the ACT doesn’t even look for our academic ability? She proceeds with the deadly stare as is if this 60 year old woman was going to grab the yardstick nearby and break it over my head for asking such a dumb question. She clears her wrinkly dangling throat and proceeds with of “course it’s about academic ability, we are just trying to teach you how to look at the test”. Standardized Tests were devised by experts convened by state education commissioners and governors to set uniform benchmarks for learning. They come labeled in different names from District Assessments,...
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...Handwriting Without Tears Putting pen to paper gets the brain’s attention like nothing else, even in this modern age of texting, e-mails and tweets. In fact, learning to write in cursive is shown to help brain development in the areas of thinking, memory, and language. Cursive handwriting stimulates brain synapses between the left and right hemispheres, something printing and typing doesn’t do for you. The College Board found that students who wrote in cursive for the essay portion of SAT scored a bit higher than those who didn’t write in cursive and just printed. As a result, the physical act of writing in cursive leads to increased and better comprehension and participation. A few years ago, the College Board found that students who wrote in cursive for the essay portion of the SAT scored slightly higher than those who just printed, which experts believe is because the speed and efficiency writing in cursive allowed the students to focus more on the content of their essays and actually think when they’re writing. Some argue that cursive is no longer relevant because it isn’t included in Common Core State Standards and because most people don’t handwrite that often. But these standards only include those skills that are testable and measurable in the classroom; they don’t address basic...
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...To Whom It May Concern: I am writing in regards to a high school position at your school I believe that my enthusiasm for Social Studies, students and learning would make me an excellent candidate for this position. I believe as educators we are ourselves are constantly learning what works and what doesn’t work by our diverse students and it is essential as teachers to keep in mind the needs of each and every one of our students. I am confident that my lesson plans and curriculum are designed to fit the requirements of the New York State Standards and the Common Core, which also reflects my contribution as a teacher to the classroom. I have a strong understanding of student development and have been consistently recognized by my cooperating teacher and her administrators for the relationships I create with my students in conjunction to the functionality of the classroom. My purpose in the classroom is to create a free space where students can engage in critical thinking, making inferences and supporting their ideas and opinions with primary and secondary sources. I believe it is important to utilize up to date pieces of information to engross the student’s attention and participation in the classroom. Being that our students are technologically savvy I also believe it is important to incorporate technology into lesson planning. I am also fluent in Greek and am to communicate with students and parents from Greek-speaking households in hopes to promote their parents...
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...In this section, I will list a sequence of events including student-student and teacher-student interactions from my observation. I won’t overwhelmingly display every detail; however, will attempt to list the important aspects, which I will later elaborate on and analyze in the reflection section. In class discussion of the assigned reading (To Kill a Mocking Bird) o After each assigned reading for the day they are given TKAM study questions, which they would have to answer in essay format. Vocabulary exercises o Find Your Partner Students are given vocabulary words to define weekly. And by the end of the week instead of taking a spelling/vocab quiz they’d play a game called “Find Your Partner.” One student would have the vocab word,...
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...mastered I still seemed to not succeed in the skills of sounding out words, and learning the right amount of syllables the words contained. My reading skills was below basic as a child. My writing skills was even worse than my reading skills. Certain letters like for example an “M” would look like a “W” and these certain letters would play tricks on my brain making me think that, maybe the creator of the alphabet made a mistake and there was only just either or. My mom began to think I had Dyslexia, which is a general term for disorders that involve difficulty in learning to read or interpret words and letters. I soon went to the doctor to diagnose if I did have this type of learning disability and the results came back...
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...Schools & Society For this essay I will be discussing three standards documents; The Common Core Standards for Mathematics, which is a student curriculum and achievement set of standards, the California Standards for the Teaching Profession, which is a set of professional conduct standards aimed at teachers and lastly, The 21st Century Student Outcomes and Support Systems standards, which are targeted at both students and teachers. All three of these sets of standards make active claims to be raising the bar for achievement, be it for students or teachers. All three documents seek to fill a void in educational standards by clearly stating what they hope to achieve, why this is necessary and where past standards have come up short. All three documents are specific in nature, striving to lay out objectives as clearly as possible. Additionally, though the three sets of standards address students and teachers, and various subject matter, they all speak of a need for a holistic view. With The Common Core Standards for Mathematics for example, they talk of the interconnected nature of the various areas in math and how knowledge and ability in one area plays into the mastery of other areas. Similarly, both the California Standards for the Teaching Profession and the 21st Century Student Outcomes and Support Systems take a broad view on teacher and student success, looking at the whole picture of what makes a good teacher and what makes a good student. From a purely technical...
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...a Teacher How has education evolved in my lifetime? I think the biggest change in education since I was in school has got to be technology. Back when I was in school we didn’t have things like high tech calculators and computers and Interactive Smart Boards. We did all our work by hand using pencils, pens and paper. When I was in elementary school the basic core skills of reading, writing, and math were taught by hand, we had to do all our reading in books, we didn’t have the Smart Boards like they do today where teachers can load a book on the screen and each student can read together or individually to the other students. Anything that had to do with writing was done by hand on paper unlike today where students can use computers to write their essays. Math was all done by hand on paper long division was a process that was broken down step by step, not using calculators or computers to find the answers. We did our multiplication tables by hand until we had them memorized. Things were simpler back to a point and to a point they are easier now, everything that we had to research for essays in high school was done at the library. We had to learn to use the Dewey Decimal System to find the books we needed. Today most all research is done on the computer, I find that this aspect of research is much easier for students including myself, being a student again. I don’t think that if things were like they were before when I was in school I would be going...
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...viewed as merely hard work and long hours, it has illustrated nursing is a skill, a crucial facet of government health strategy, and a social and medical science. This passion extends from hard work and includes the profession shifting its core functions providing a flexible service that meets the changing health and social needs of society. The rewards to the profession and the community include personalized and case specific localized care, health program implementation, and guiding improved social trends at the ‘coal face’. Community based nursing is now at the forefront of social awareness and this important benefit is discussed throughout this essay. This essay focuses on the importance of community based nursing to the profession looking at aspects such as the role’s expanded influence on social trends, analysis, palliative care, outreach to vulnerable groups, and program implementation to the wider community. These functions in combination play a key role in ensuring this aspect of the nursing profession is effective in prevention and in tune with society’s needs. Community based nursing comprises several fields of expertise, including community health, public health, home health, and community mental health nursing. This essay looks at the collective benefits of these and the resulting influence brought to patients and the medical profession. The link between community nursing and progression of the medical profession in targeting the broader population is discussed...
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...student’s special need by maintain and adapting lesson plans to meet their individual need and ability. Adapting the lesson plan to their specific need and ability requires observations, meetings and lots of patience. This essay details my experience within a special education classroom, it includes observations and a detailed accommodated lesson plan. This experience provided me with insight on the daily life of a special education teacher, and prepares me for a future career in teaching. Teaching for Exceptionalities Benchmark Students with special needs require adapted teaching methods that vary from those of their peers. These adapted methods stem from detailed observations, that are then included in an adapted lesson plan that is specific to that child’s need. Each adapted lesson plan has a goal, both short term and long term. These goals are then further extended in the form of evaluations and even more observations that are essential in determining a child’s ability in a core area, which then aides the teacher in creating a lesson plan suitable for this child and their need. It is essential that a special education teacher actively observes her students, evaluates what they have learned, and adapts the lesson plan to their need, to create a learning environment that is developmentally appropriate and educationally enriching. The Student Ryan is a 10-year-old, male who is in fifth grade at Shughart Elementary School. Shughart is located within Linden Oaks military...
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...standardized testing. However, many students are unaware of how or why to cite text evidence in their writing. Starting in grade 4, students are tested on their ability to integrate information from two informational texts and respond to a prompt with a 4-5 paragraph essay. In this essay assessment, students are expected to cite text evidence from both articles. Teachers and students alike find the new assessment challenging and have been given few resources to help conquer the new task. Teachers would like to see students use text evidence more effectively in their writing as well as possess a deeper understanding of the value of using text...
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...The authors’ fellow teachers contributed their personal experiences as group members and teachers of English to the article to encourage other teachers to teach writing authentically and to collaborate with one another to improve student learning. The authors’ reported success is recorded in their article as the success of the group as a whole. The teachers in the teacher inquiry support group relay their processes to collect and use the data that will better their individual classes and their individual students in a step by step process. They first observe one another and share their expertise. They then research research-based practices to better their curriculum. Then the teachers use metacognition and reflect on why they taught writing the way they were. Lastly, the members of the group work together using the data gathered to improve the way their students were learning. The teacher-members of the support group and their students grew professionally and academically, respectively, because of the efforts of the group as a whole. (Shosh, Zales....
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...Introduction This essay mainly discussed the market for information, although this market is invisible, it plays an essential role in financial and banking industry. In part I, the essay will try to explain why the market will exist as well as why the different kinds of participates exist. The market for information is a complex market with a large number of chains and relations between information producers and information buyers. However, some chains and relations of the market are the core part for the market to function well. The essay will also discuss the “Chains of transacting and accountability” and “Networks of assurance”. However, in the process of information producing, there will be some difficulty in learning and knowledge creation. In part II, the essay will firstly introduce the ideal process of learning and knowledge production and secondly discuss the reason for the ineffectiveness of learning and knowledge creation processes. Based on the possible reasons of ineffectiveness, it will also give some suggestions on how to avoid the difficulties in the future. This essay is mainly based on John Holland’s two papers; therefore, in the end, the report will discuss some limitations of these two papers. I. Information production and assurance roles of participants in the ‘market for information’ What is the market for information and why does this market exist? Information markets are usually a place where individual knowledge is organized and aggregated...
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