Common+Core

Common Core



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The New Illinois Learning Standards. Incorporating the Common Core Standards Video: []

What Illinois Teachers Should Know About Common Core Standards Video: []

** Summary: **
=== Multiple videos focusing on Illinois Common Core Standards. Videos include: CCS Overview, Getting Started, Balancing Information, Text Based Answers, Building Knowledge and Disciplines, Academic Vocabulary, Close - Reading Strategies, and Common Core Math…And much more… ===



**Summary:**
===Learn about the key features and differences of the new standards. For example, what is the purpose of the college and career readiness anchor standards? What do you think about the shift to non-fiction and informational text in reading? Shift to non-narrative texts in writing?===

**Summary:**
===See how teaching to the Common Core affects classroom practice. Strategies on how open-ended problem solving prepares students for future math classes. As well as, how speaking and listening standards shape classroom activities.===

**Summary:**
===Learn about the key features and differences of the new standards. Strategies on how to link the standards to mathematical practices. Integration techniques and the impact of teaching fewer "topics" in each grade change your planning.===


 * Audience: All Educators –Elementary English/Math **
 * Topic ** : Common Core


 * Audience: All Educators – Upper Grades **


 * Topic ** : Common Core
 * Length of Video ** : 14 minutes


 * Link to Video: [|http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ym-] **
 * Summary: **
 * Visit English and Math classrooms who have already begun to adapt to the new common core standards. See what changes teachers are making in their practice to adapt to the new standards. **


 * Audience: All Educators **

** Summary: **
=== Katie McKnight, Ph.D from NLU offers 5 great tips on how to implement effective strategies within the classroom. Teachers need to offer 21st skills for content literacy including interwoven teaching strategies across all subjects and textual complexity. ===

**Summary:**
===Videos of standard writers explaining key issues of the Common Core State Standards. Provides professional-quality, modular videos they can be shared with educators, either sequentially or on an individual basis, that describe different important aspects of the ELA and mathematics standards and key implementation issues. The videos highlight David Coleman, Sue Pimentel, Bill McCallum and Jason Zimba. ===