Raising Rigor: Teaching with Text Sets
Raising Rigor: Highly Effective Instruction
Are you ready to take the next steps in the implementation of the new standards with your students? Learn about relevant tools that support your instructional planning and reflection. This course will support you as you dig deeper into the standards, student work samples and videos of teaching in action with an eye toward the effectiveness of instructional practices. You will learn to use student work protocols as well as practice guides to enhance your teaching and to unite educators in common discussion throughout your building. This class is designed to give you not only more resources, but deeper understanding of what quality Common Core instruction is all about!
Raising Rigor: Aligned Writing
Are you ready to take the next steps in the implementation of the new standards with your students? Dive into the writing standards for a new experience on how to raise rigor and lead your students toward college and career readiness. This course will give you the opportunity to look carefully at standards aligned writing so that you can better implement the standards and understand expectations for students. We will use SVVSD student work throughout the course. You will compare student pieces within grade clusters in order to distill the core elements of each writing type and to gain a better understanding of how to deliver truly standards aligned instruction in writing!