Common Core

Select one of the shifts in the Common Core that you focused on in your class last year and answer the following questions.?

?1) Which instructional shift was a focus in your classroom last year? How did this shift change your instruction? Consider lesson or unit planning changes or instructional strategies.?

2) How successful were your students in mastering the skills required by the shifts ? How do you know? What types of student work were reflected in this shift?

3) Based on what you learned from your students’ progress, what modifications to your practice will you make this coming year to better support student learning around this instructional shift?

To get instructional shifts please visit:

https://schools.nyc.gov/NR/rdonlyres/9375E046-3913-4AF5-9FE3-D21BAE8FEE8D/0/CommonCoreInstructionalShifts_Mathematics.pdf

Common Core

Scenario: A colleague, Ms. Ortiz, is coming to visit your classroom the second week of school. She is interested in working on student participation (an aspect of Danielson 3b) and will be visiting your classroom to watch you demonstrate how you build student participation in your classroom.?

?In preparation for her visit, please write Ms. Ortiz an e-mail that does the following:??
1) Invites her into your classroom.??

2) Describes your objectives for the lesson Ms. Ortiz will be seeing. How have you planned for student participation within your lesson? Please describe specific strategies or resources you will use that she should watch for.??

3) Describes what actions you have taken to establish a classroom culture that supports student participation.?

4) Includes a plan for following up after the visitation.

You can google Danielson framework or check the NYC Department of Education website.
or try

https://www.danielsongroup.org/userfiles/files/downloads/2013EvaluationInstrument.pdf

Please look at the Danielson Framework 3b