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What is the ultimate aim of a curriculum according to the text?
What is the ultimate aim of a curriculum according to the text?
What is the ultimate goal of a curriculum according to the Common Core Standards?
What is the ultimate goal of a curriculum according to the Common Core Standards?
The ultimate goal of a curriculum according to the Common Core Standards is independent transfer.
True or false:The Common Core State Standards are intended to replace old ways of doing business.
True or false:The Common Core State Standards are intended to replace old ways of doing business.
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True or false: Standards are the same thing as a curriculum.
True or false: Standards are the same thing as a curriculum.
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What are the four categories involved in translating the Standards into curriculum?
What are the four categories involved in translating the Standards into curriculum?
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Which category of the Standards involves curriculum-embedded tasks designed to engage students in applying their knowledge and skills in an authentic and relevant context?
Which category of the Standards involves curriculum-embedded tasks designed to engage students in applying their knowledge and skills in an authentic and relevant context?
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Why is it important to unpack the Standards into the four categories?
Why is it important to unpack the Standards into the four categories?
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What are the four categories involved in translating the Standards into curriculum?
What are the four categories involved in translating the Standards into curriculum?
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True or false: Educators do not need to understand the structure and intent of the Standards in order to work with them effectively.
True or false: Educators do not need to understand the structure and intent of the Standards in order to work with them effectively.
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What is the difference between Overarching Understandings and Essential Questions?
What is the difference between Overarching Understandings and Essential Questions?
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What is the difference between Overarching Understandings and Essential Questions?
What is the difference between Overarching Understandings and Essential Questions?
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True or false: Curriculum is focused on outputs, not inputs.
True or false: Curriculum is focused on outputs, not inputs.
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What is the warning given by the Common Core Mathematics Standards regarding instructional sequence and pacing?
What is the warning given by the Common Core Mathematics Standards regarding instructional sequence and pacing?
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True or false: Cornerstone tasks are designed to be complex and challenging from the beginning of a student's education.
True or false: Cornerstone tasks are designed to be complex and challenging from the beginning of a student's education.
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What are Cornerstone Tasks?
What are Cornerstone Tasks?
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True or false: Lack of capacity for independent transfer of learning will not impact a student's readiness for college or the workplace.
True or false: Lack of capacity for independent transfer of learning will not impact a student's readiness for college or the workplace.
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What is the purpose of problem- and project-based learning, small-group inquiries, Socratic Seminars, and independent studies according to the text?
What is the purpose of problem- and project-based learning, small-group inquiries, Socratic Seminars, and independent studies according to the text?
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Why should a coherent curriculum be mapped backwards from desired performances?
Why should a coherent curriculum be mapped backwards from desired performances?
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What is the difference between Standards and curriculum according to the text?
What is the difference between Standards and curriculum according to the text?
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What is the warning given by the Common Core Mathematics Standards regarding instructional sequence and pacing?
What is the warning given by the Common Core Mathematics Standards regarding instructional sequence and pacing?
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True or false: The Common Core Mathematics Standards recommend a rigid sequence within each grade level.
True or false: The Common Core Mathematics Standards recommend a rigid sequence within each grade level.
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True or false: Designing a curriculum backward from the goal of autonomous transfer requires a deliberate and transparent plan for student support.
True or false: Designing a curriculum backward from the goal of autonomous transfer requires a deliberate and transparent plan for student support.
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What is the purpose of unpacking the Standards into four categories?
What is the purpose of unpacking the Standards into four categories?
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How can a deliberate and transparent plan help students become less reliant on teacher hand-holding and scaffolds?
How can a deliberate and transparent plan help students become less reliant on teacher hand-holding and scaffolds?
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True or false: Problem- and project-based learning should be used less as learners progress through the curriculum.
True or false: Problem- and project-based learning should be used less as learners progress through the curriculum.
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Which type of task is designed to recur across the grades, progressing from simpler to more sophisticated?
Which type of task is designed to recur across the grades, progressing from simpler to more sophisticated?
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What are some examples of teaching methods that should increase as learners progress through the curriculum across the grades?
What are some examples of teaching methods that should increase as learners progress through the curriculum across the grades?
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What is the Common Core State Standards' aim according to the text?
What is the Common Core State Standards' aim according to the text?
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What is the pathway to the performances envisioned by the Common Core?
What is the pathway to the performances envisioned by the Common Core?
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True or false: Mapping a curriculum in a typical scope and sequence based on grade-level content specifications is the best way to encourage connected and meaningful learning.
True or false: Mapping a curriculum in a typical scope and sequence based on grade-level content specifications is the best way to encourage connected and meaningful learning.
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Study Notes
- The Common Core State Standards require a careful reading and have new emphases.
- The Standards are not intended to be new names for old ways of doing business.
- Understanding the intent and structure of the Standards is imperative for working with them effectively.
- Standards are outcomes, not curriculum.
- Educators must translate the Standards into an engaging and effective curriculum.
- Curriculum works with the Standards to frame optimal learning experiences.
- Most definitions of curriculum focus on inputs, not outputs.
- The first step in translating the Standards into curriculum involves unpacking them into four categories.
- The four categories are Long term Transfer Goals, Overarching Understandings, Overarching Essential Questions, and Cornerstone Tasks.
- Unpacking the Standards helps to ensure clarity about the end results and an understanding of how the pieces fit together.
- The Common Core Standards have made transfer goals more overt.
- Transfer goals reflect the ultimate goals of education.
- Overarching Understandings and Essential Questions are two sides of a coin that state what skilled performers will need to effectively transfer their learning to new situations.
- Cornerstone Tasks are curriculum-embedded tasks designed to engage students in applying their knowledge and skills in an authentic and relevant context.
- Cornerstone tasks are designed to recur across the grades, progressing from simpler to more sophisticated.
- A coherent curriculum is mapped backwards from desired performances.
- Curriculum should be framed and developed in terms of worthy outputs.
- The ultimate aim of a curriculum is independent transfer.
- Lack of capacity to independently apply learning will make a student neither college nor workplace ready.
- The ELA Standards aim to develop students' autonomous capacity to use learned content effectively.
- Traditional curriculum sequencing reinforces a "coverage" mentality and assumes a prescribed instructional sequence and pacing.
- The Common Core Mathematics Standards explicitly warn against assuming a rigid sequence within each grade level.
- The Standards refer to the desired qualities of student work and the degree of rigor that must be assessed and achieved.
- Designing a school curriculum backward from the goal of autonomous transfer requires a deliberate and transparent plan for helping the student rely less on teacher hand-holding and scaffolds.
- Transfer is about intelligently and effectively drawing from your repertoire, independently, to handle new situations on your own.
- Problem- and project-based learning, small-group inquiries, Socratic Seminars, and independent studies should increase as learners progress through the curriculum across the grades.
- A curriculum mapped in a typical scope and sequence based on grade-level content specifications will encourage a curriculum of disconnected "coverage".
- Curriculum should be constructed around sophisticated "cornerstone" tasks, reflecting the performances that the Common Core Standards demand of graduates.
- Several standards can be addressed by a single rich task.
- Building the curriculum backward from worthy tasks offers the pathway to the performances envisioned by the Common Core.
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