Description
The Common Core Companion is a book that was created by Jim Burke to help teachers understand the Common Core State Standards. The book is divided into three parts: the first part covers grades 9-10, the second part covers grades 11-12, and the third part covers topics such as indicators, glossary, and adaptations for ELL students. The book is well laid out and is extremely useful for teachers.
That version of the 9-12 standards you wish you had If you're a high school teacher, no need to despair. Jim Burke has created a Common Core Companion for you, too. This time positioning the grades 9-10 standards alongside 11-12, it's every bit the roadmap to what each standard says, what each standard means, and how to put that standard into practice across subjects. Jim clearly lays out: - Key distinctions across grade levels - Different content-area versions of each standard - Explanations of each standard, with student prompts - Content to cover, lesson ideas, and instructional techniques - Glossary and adaptations for ELL students
Review:
I must say, I am duly impressed. This book gives the kind of 'hands-on' support classroom teachers and curriculum committees really need in doing the work of 'unpacking' the standards and interpreting those standards into curriculum documents. The very detailed, complete discussions of the standards and the breakdowns that the Burke does are, in my opinion, exemplary ... Well done! -- Joe Crawford, Author of Aligning Your Curriculum to the Common Core State Standards Fundamentally different from other Common Core books, The Common Core Companion is s a user's guide designed by a teacher who actually uses the standards in his daily work with students. Jim Burke gently demystifies the Common Core State Standards and offers a practical tool for curricular alignment. I think you will find The Common Core Companion helps schools help themselves. -- Carol Jago, Member I love what Jim Burke has done to make the Standards less threatening and more useful for teachers. In particular, the indicators for what students and teachers should be doing, given the Standard, are extremely helpful; as are such a clear glossary and illuminating examples. All in all, The Common Core Companion is bound to be enormously useful and thus dog-eared! -- Grant Wiggins, President I have never read a book for teachers so well laid out and highly useful. I predict administrators across the country will purchase this book for their secondary teachers to use in their staff meetings, individual department meetings, their PLCs, and for individual teachers to use as Burke puts it as 'a personal compass to navigate the complexities of the Common Core Curriculum.' -- Debbie Silver, Ed.D., Author of Drumming to the Beat Different Marchers and Fall Down 7 Times, Get Up 8
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