{"id":4905,"date":"2016-07-08T12:36:35","date_gmt":"2016-07-08T19:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.educatoral.com\/wordpress\/?p=4905"},"modified":"2021-08-20T21:29:29","modified_gmt":"2021-08-21T04:29:29","slug":"the-core-shifts-the-way-we-teach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/educatoral.com\/wordpress\/2016\/07\/08\/the-core-shifts-the-way-we-teach\/","title":{"rendered":"The Core Shifts the Way We Teach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.educatoral.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/ShiftTeach.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4906\" src=\"http:\/\/www.educatoral.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/ShiftTeach-400x225.jpg\" alt=\"ShiftTeach\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/educatoral.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/ShiftTeach-400x225.jpg 400w, https:\/\/educatoral.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/ShiftTeach-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/educatoral.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/ShiftTeach-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/educatoral.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/ShiftTeach-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>The Common Core English Language Arts (CCSS ELA) standards were developed to provide our kids a relevant, engaging, rigorous education. At the heart of the standards are three major shifts to the way we teach our students. This year I have been fortunate enough to have one of the bloggers on our state&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/corelaboratewa.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CoreLaborate blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I managed to write a complete series on the three shifts called for in the CCSS ELA thanks to a series of trainings I attended. I attended two trainings put together by my state&#8217;s teacher union, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonea.org\/pd\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Washington Education Association (WEA)<\/a> and a similar training put together by <a href=\"http:\/\/achievethecore.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Achieve the Core<\/a>. I have to admit that it took me all three of those trainings before I actually started to get it because there&#8217;s so much there. I ended up writing two posts for the 1st shift, two posts for the second shift and one post for the third shift. Now I teach Science and I am working on wrapping my brain around the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nextgenscience.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)<\/a> and since Science includes reading, researching and writing, the CCSS ELA standards are appropriate for me too. Learning about the shifts was very helpful and I got a lot of great information and resources at the trainings that I share in my shift posts.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to link to all five shift posts here so they are in one place and easy to access (reading them in order will probably be the most helpful):<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Shift 1<\/strong>, Regular practice with <b>complex text <\/b>and its <b>academic language<\/b>. <a href=\"https:\/\/educatoral.com\/wordpress\/2016\/02\/16\/ccss-ela-shift-1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Part 1<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/educatoral.com\/wordpress\/2016\/03\/02\/implications-for-text-complexity-post-is-out\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Part 2<\/a><\/h3>\n<h3><strong>Shift 2<\/strong>, Reading, writing and speaking grounded in <b>evidence from text<\/b>, both literary and informational. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.educatoral.com\/wordpress\/2016\/04\/12\/text-is-boss\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Part 1<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.educatoral.com\/wordpress\/2016\/05\/05\/backing-up-claims\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Part 2<\/a><\/h3>\n<h3><strong>Shift 3<\/strong>, <b>Building knowledge<\/b> through <b>content-rich nonfiction<\/b>. <a href=\"https:\/\/educatoral.com\/wordpress\/2016\/06\/01\/building-knowledge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Part 1<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Common Core English Language Arts (CCSS ELA) standards were developed to provide our kids a relevant, engaging, rigorous education. At the heart of the standards are three major shifts to the way we teach our students. This year I have been fortunate enough to have one of the bloggers on our state&#8217;s CoreLaborate blog. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/educatoral.com\/wordpress\/2016\/07\/08\/the-core-shifts-the-way-we-teach\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[511],"tags":[3517,1833,93,34,3554,3555,3495],"class_list":["post-4905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ednews","tag-ccss","tag-common-core","tag-education","tag-learning","tag-shifts","tag-standards","tag-teaching","item-wrap"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/educatoral.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/educatoral.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/educatoral.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatoral.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatoral.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4905"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/educatoral.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7298,"href":"https:\/\/educatoral.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4905\/revisions\/7298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/educatoral.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatoral.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatoral.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}