I don't know if this helps, but you may want to look on the New Jersey DOE website. They have organized the CCS into five units for instruction. Look under the model curriculum tab and click on Math or ELA. Then click on the grade you teach and you can see unit 1, unit 2 etc... Our school began to follow the unit models for teaching and we are presently aligning our literature, poems and stories at each grade level to teach the standards. We spent last year working on resources for teaching and supporting the new Math CCS. Another teacher and I created a template for each unit. We literally copied and pasted the SLO into our school template and then added a column for suggested resources to meet the standards. Its a work in progress but has been helpful.
Donna/NJ Sent from my HTC Status™ on AT&T ----- Reply message ----- From: "evelia cadet" <cadeteve...@hotmail.com> To: "Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group" <mosaic@literacyworkshop.org> Subject: [MOSAIC] Curriculum Alignment Date: Wed, Jul 10, 2013 12:21 pm This teacher is not coming up with any ideas to improve instruction in OUR school. Does she has the best instructional strategies? Maybe, I don't know. As I mention before, what other teachers do is a secret in my school. I can tell you what she has shared about her instruction: she has the best standardized scores in the school, she doesn't believe in allowing the children to choose their books and reading anything outside the basal program, she believes every single reading should be assessed, she is great at teaching test taking strategy the entire year, she uses lots of practice tests passages to teach, she usually makes negative comment about teachers' poor test scores and incompetence. My point is, share your greatness now that you are in the leadership team. What is your plan to help OUR school? To assist and collaborate with the incompetent teachers? Sent from my iPhone On Jul 10, 2013, at 9:16 AM, "Renee Goularte" <share2lear...@gmail.com> wrote: > I would like to speak up for the seasoned, stand-alone teachers, since I was > one for years. > > Teachers being required to all be teaching the same genre at the same time > makes my hair stand up. If they elect to do so voluntarily, that's one thing. > Being ordered to is quite another thing. Plus, teachers do not have to all > be doing the same genres at the same time to be covering/teaching/addressing > all the standards. Those are two different issues. If there are teachers who > are not teaching everything they should be, that's an issue that should be > taken up by the principal. > > I do understand that you are looking for a solution to a problem. > > But the seasoned, stand-alone teacher is sometimes the one with the better > practices. :-) > > Renee > > > On Jul 10, 2013, at 6:41 AM, Deborah Hopp wrote: > >> >> >> >> Evelia, >> I am not an expert on alignment, but I have taught in a private school and >> now a public school. When you are trying to move seasoned teachers, it's >> overwhelming. Focus on finding like minds and spend your time collaborating >> with them. Take risks and spend you time being the BEST teacher that you >> can be. Don't let this frustration keep you from being just that, the BEST >> teacher you can be. Some will want what you have. Others won't-this is >> just a fact that very passionate teachers have to deal with. Good >> leadership is key in this area. Hopefully, the principal has a backbone. >> Debbie Hopp >> Kindergarten teacher >> Certified Reading Specialist >> Baltimore, Maryland >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: evelia cadet <cadeteve...@hotmail.com> >> To: Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group >> <mosaic@literacyworkshop.org> >> Sent: Wed, Jul 10, 2013 3:29 am >> Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Curriculum Alignment >> >> >> Here in Texas the standards are called TEKS. This one example of a 5th grade >> standard: >> 5.11.A Students will summarize the main ideas and supporting details in a >> text >> in ways that maintain meaning and logical order >> >> To answer your question about teaching genres, yes, all reading teachers >> will be >> working on the same genre during the same period. At least in the first >> semester. We had issues with teachers not teaching all standards and genres. >> So, >> they move from grade to grade with many learning holes. Thank you for your >> help. >> >> Evelia > > > > "Never forget that you are one of a kind. Never forget that if there weren’t > any need for you in all your uniqueness to be on this earth, you wouldn’t be > here in the first place. And never forget, no matter how overwhelming life’s > challenges and problems seem to be, that one person can make a difference in > the world. In fact, it is always because of one person that all the changes > that matter in the world come about. So be that one person." > ~ R. 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