November 2014: College and Career Standards Group Snapshot: Join the Conversations!
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New and Ongoing Discussions
- Jigsaw Vocabulary: Read and watch how to incorporate jigsaw puzzles into your vocabulary instruction, and let us know if you might try this out: https://community.lincs.ed.gov/discussion/jigsaw-vocabulary
- Using TED Talks in the Adult Education Classroom: TED Talks have endless possibilities for the classroom. How are you using TED in the classroom and how are adult learners responding? https://community.lincs.ed.gov/discussion/using-ted-talks-adult-education-classroom
- The Value of Revision: Jennifer Davis Bowman’s blog discusses the value of revision for student learning. Do you make revision part of your practice? https://community.lincs.ed.gov/discussion/value-revision
- Professional Development with a Focus on College and Career Readiness: Kentucky Adult Education Professional Development this fall concentrates on Collaborations to focus on working with colleagues on developing standards-based lessons. What kind of professional development have you done with the CCR standards? What is the topic of that professional development? https://community.lincs.ed.gov/discussion/professional-development-focus-college-and-career-readiness
- How are Adult Learners Doing on the New GED? If you are a GED teacher or GED program administrator, how does a 53 percent pass rate fit with your experience? https://community.lincs.ed.gov/discussion/how-are-adult-learners-doing-new-ged
- Checking Lessons to Determine the Alignment to the College and Career Readiness Standards for Adult Education: Achieve has partnered with the Teaching Channel for a series of videos that focus on EQuiP (Educators Evaluating the Quality of Instructional Products). EQuiP is an initiative designed to identify quality materials aligned to the Common Core Standards. Find out more: https://community.lincs.ed.gov/discussion/checking-lessons-determine-alignment-college-and-career-readiness-standards-adult
- Do You Give Vocabulary Quizzes? What is your approach to teaching academic vocabulary? Do you give vocabulary quizzes? Share your ideas here: https://community.lincs.ed.gov/discussion/do-you-give-vocabulary-quizzes
- Reading Informational Texts: Edutopia highlighted a lesson for middle schools that is relevant for adult learners. Read more about the lesson: https://community.lincs.ed.gov/discussion/reading-informational-texts
- Cooperative Learning and Assessment: Do you use the cooperative learning assessment strategy, “numbered heads”? If so, share the lessons you’ve used the strategy in and how it has worked for you: https://community.lincs.ed.gov/discussion/cooperative-learning-and-assessment-0
- Scaffolding on the Spot! Do you use the spot scaffolding strategy when you notice students do not understand what is being taught? What other strategies have been effective for you when it is clear students are not “getting it”? https://community.lincs.ed.gov/discussion/scaffolding-spot
- The Shifts Demanded by the Standards: Engage NY provides a good description of the twelve shifts in English Language Arts and Mathematics as outlined in the College and Career Readiness Standards for Adult Education: https://community.lincs.ed.gov/discussion/shifts-demanded-standards
- What’s In and What’s Out? Susan Pimentel, a lead writer of the Common Core State Standards and the author of the College and Career Standards for Adult Education, provides a list of English Language Arts instructional shifts. View the chart here: https://community.lincs.ed.gov/discussion/whats-and-whats-out
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New Group Bulletins
- CCR Standards Project: What started as an important announcement about the updates to the College and Career Readiness Standards in Adult Education project has evolved into a vibrant discussion about evidence-based reading instruction and reading apprenticeships: https://community.lincs.ed.gov/bulletin/ccr-standards-project
- Adult Literacy Researchers Wanted! Georgia State University has faculty lines open for three scholars with established external funding and research in adult literacy. For more information: https://community.lincs.ed.gov/discussion/adult-literacy-researchers-wanted
Have an announcement to share with other group members? Post to the Bulletin tab! https://community.lincs.ed.gov/node/257/content/bulletins
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New LINCS Announcements
- ED Launches Career Pathways Exchange: As a valued member of the LINCS Community, you are invited to subscribe to OCTAE’s new Career Pathways Exchange to receive targeted email digests of the latest high-quality resources, events, and information related to career pathways. For more information and how to subscribe to the Exchange, visit: https://community.lincs.ed.gov/notice/ed-launches-career-pathways-exchange
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New to the College and Career Standards group? Introduce yourself here! https://community.lincs.ed.gov/discussion/welcome-and-please-introduce-yourself-0
See you in the College and Career Standards group!
The LINCS Community Team