Common Core Implementation in the Classroom

You know you are in trouble when…..

You are standing in front of the class and lecturing over 40% of the class time

Students are not engaged during guided practice or no guided practice.

The chairs are in a straight row.

The overhead projector / smart board is your main presentation mode (only one learning style is addressed).

The lesson is not student oriented (less teacher talk)

One word answer is the standard mode of student response

No problems are being solved

No vocabulary introduced/integrated

No products or evidence are apparent to indicate that students have learned the concept.

Only pencil and paper assessments are used.

Levels of questions are on the knowledge level (over 15%)

No application to real life situations to the concept or skill being taught.

No essential question demonstrated/known to the teacher or to the students or to the observer.

No comprehension skills demonstrated in content areas (science-social studies)

The ELA content used is over 50% fiction

No linkage of the skills/content to other grades, academic disciplines

The textbook guides what is being taught (beginning of the book to the end-taught sequentially)

No use of themes in the texts/lessons

Not teaching the identified skills outlined from the Standard Course of Study

Not doing cumulative review daily

When basic mathematical practices are not implemented

When writing is not taking place in all classrooms

When students are not working collaboratively to reach a goal/answer an essential question

When technology is not being integrated across the disciplines

WHEN YOU ARE NOT AWARE OF THE NEW STANDARDS!!