Teacher Update: What Common Core Means for Language Arts Teachers

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	Top Story Teacher Leaders Network Assessment & Reflection With ELLs—And All Students In an excerpt from their upcoming book, Larry Ferlazzo and Katie Hull Sypnieski highlight student reflection as an important tool in assessing the progress of English-language learners. Advertisement Get a rich collection of daily warm-up exercises for grades K-3. Number Sense Routines helps all students build number sense. Dozens of classroom examples illustrate step-by-step how the routines work and how they can easily be incorporated into your current practice. Browse the entire book online! PD Webinar Series: Reading the Future What Common Core Means for Language Arts Teachers Thursday, May 3, 4 to 5 p.m. ET 2010 National Teacher of the Year Sarah Brown Wessling will take you inside the documentation for the common core English/Language Arts standards and explain what the standards mean in practical instructional terms. Wessling will explore ways teachers can begin integrating the language arts standards into their planning and contextualizing them in relation to the specific learning needs of their own students. Get your questions answered in an extensive Q&A segment. Register for this webinar now. View the complete series, Reading the Future: New Directions in Literacy and Language Arts Instruction. Advertisement Featured Discussion Characteristics of a Good Principal In a recent Commentary, Karin Chenoweth and Christina Theokas describe the commonalities they found among principals at successful schools. The main one? They say it's supporting teachers. Do you agree? What other characteristics make a great school leader? Join the discussion. MORE HEADLINES First Person Classroom Management That Creates Harmony Instead of Hostility Music teacher Kevin Mixon offers tips on adopting a classroom-management style that reinforces learning goals and expectations instead of simply punishing bad behavior. (Teacher) Common Standards Ignite Debate Over Prereading Many educators have inferred that the common core bans the practice of providing students with context and content before they read text. (Education Week) Digital Gaming in Classrooms Seen Gaining Popularity A survey of K-8 teachers shows nearly half of them are incorporating digital games in lessons to engage students and personalize learning. (Education Week) N.Y. Plans to Unveil Online System for Teacher Evaluation Plans The state education department will unveil a new online system designed to make submitting and implementing teacher evaluation plans more efficient and transparent. (McClatchy-Tribune) Commentary Hooking Kids on Science With a draft of the science standards due out soon, Deanna Kuhn suggests how to make the subject more engaging to students. (Education Week) Advertisement Featured Company from the Directory of Teacher PD Sourcebook UVa School of Continuing and Professional Studies The Graduate Course Series in 21eTeacher prepares preK-12 educators to use e-learning tools and techniques to incorporate technology-based instruction into their classrooms to have a greater impact on student learning. Series meets the ISTE National Education Technology Standards (NETS) for Teachers. Click here for details. Click here for details. TEACHING NOW Education Week Teacher's editorial blog, Teaching Now, provides the latest news, ideas, and resources for teacher leaders. Comments welcome. • Resource Watch: Khan-esque Videos From MIT Students • Teachers: Kenneth Cole Should Stick to Shoes • Identifying the Characteristics of Top Teachers • Gap-Narrowing Calif. District Gives Teachers Freedom to Experiment • Google Hosting Virtual Conference for Educators • $25,000 and an Internship Awarded to Expert Teachers • Could Automated Graders Help Writing Teachers? What About Replace Them? • Teachers Lack Mental Health Training Education Week Teacher Book Club Creating Opportunities for 'Other People's Children' From May 16 to 18, acclaimed author Lisa Delpit will lead an online conversation about her new book "Multiplication Is for White People": Raising Expectations for Other People's Children and how educators can help improve learning for African-American students. Get ready for the discussion, which is sure to be an animated one, by reading this Q&A with Delpit on Education Week's BookMarks blog. For more information on the book, see our Book Backgrounder. You can buy the book here. Become a Teacher Book Club member to receive updates and resources on the discussion—and a chance to win a free book! TEACHER BLOGS Classroom Q&A With Larry Ferlazzo Ed Week Readers' Ideas on How We Can Teach Social Studies More Effectively In the final post of a three-part series, Larry Ferlazzo shares his own advice and a sampling of ideas that readers contributed on teaching social studies. Charting My Own Course Lesson Planning: The Task I Love to Hate Marilyn Rhames writes about the love-hate relationship she has with lesson planning. Teacher in a Strange Land Prom Queens & Ed Reform Nancy Flanagan reflects on a school tradition held every spring: the prom. The Book Whisperer Book Recommendation: The Hero's Guide to Saving Your Kingdom Special guest Christopher Healy discusses his new book, The Hero's Guide to Saving Your Kingdom, a middle grade adventure story. Living in Dialogue Alfie Kohn Interview: Will the Common Core Benefit Children? Anthony Cody asks scholar and author Alfie Kohn to share his thoughts on the common core standards. Unwrapping the Gifted Summer Learning Tamara Fisher provides a rundown of summer professional development opportunities for those wanting to learn more about gifted students and gifted education. Teaching Ahead: A Roundtable Is Parent Involvement the Missing Link in School Reform? Our teacher-panelists expand on their ideas for facilitating and building on parent engagement in student learning. Learning Forward's PD Watch Would You Do It All Again? "Knowing what you know now about our field, if you had the opportunity to begin your career all over again, would you still get into education?" asks Frederick Brown of Learning Forward. TEACHER PD SOURCEBOOK Getting Creative About Literacy The Spring 2012 issue of the Teacher PD Sourcebook, now online, highlights innovative instructional efforts that are showing signs of success in bringing reading and writing to life for today's students. See the complete Table of Contents. And don't miss our exclusive directory of PD resources and services. Browse listings in Reading/English, Project-Based Learning, School-Wide Improvement, Differentiated Instruction, and more. Upcoming Webinars Education's "Constructive Turbulence": How Innovation and Technology Can Help Improve Student Learning Tuesday, May 8, 3 to 4 p.m. ET Content provided by Apex Learning Join Gov. Bob Wise, the president of the Alliance for Excellent Education, and Apex Learning as we discuss how digital learning connects high school students with individualized learning experiences. This webinar will also address the three major challenges facing the nation’s education system: access to good teaching, tight budgets, and boosting student achievement. Click here to register for this free live event. Should Out-of-School Staff Be Trained Like Teachers? Monday, May 14, 3 to 4 p.m. ET Underwriting for this webinar is made possible by a grant from the Wallace Foundation. Efforts have sprung up nationally to professionalize out-of-school staff members, ranging from higher education certification to training by community partners. With pressure mounting on out-of-school programs to yield benefits for students, questions are arising about how much those staff members should resemble classroom teachers and what is the most appropriate professional development for them. Join two experts on the out-of-school community as they discuss the latest ideas on providing professional development for staff members. Click here to register for this free live event. Implementing the Common Core Math Standards Wednesday, May 16, 2 to 3 p.m. ET Sponsored by Wireless Generation Big shifts are afoot as school districts gear up to implement the Common Core State Standards in mathematics. The new standards emphasize learning fewer concepts in greater depth and engaging students in a set of “mathematical practices.” Join math experts from two districts who share strategies and early experiences in preparing schools for the new standards. Click here to register for this free live event.		FOLLOW US Teacher on Twitter Follow all of the latest Teacher news on Twitter. Teacher on Facebook Become a fan of Teacher on Facebook to stay up-to-date with teacher-related news! Most Popular Stories 1. The Book Whisperer: Launching Summer Reading 2. 2012 National Teacher of the Year Hopes to 'Restore Dignity' to Teachers 3. Strategies for Meeting All Students' Needs 4. Flattening the School Walls 5. Living in Dialogue: The Pineapple Story Tests Us: Have Test Publishers become Unquestionable Authorities? Some stories may require subscription. EDUCATION WEEK EVENTS What Common Core Means for Language Arts Teachers Webinar May 3, 4:00 p.m. Eastern Register now. 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