What is effective teaching for the Common Core State Standards?
The Common Core State Standards chart a bold and compelling vision for moving beyond the rhetoric of college and career readiness to making certain students actually are ready.
The Common Core suggests shifts in teaching practices that will help students master them.
At the same time, schools and districts across the country are trying to figure out how to better align their instructional frameworks with the Standards.
Over the past few years we have helped districts create instructional frameworks for use in teacher evaluation. Throughout this work we puzzled, along with our partners, about how to integrate the instructional shifts required by the Common Core within the frameworks we were building.
We wanted to ensure that expectations about instruction outlined in the evaluation system were consistent with those implied by the Common Core. In the end, we pursued two strategies.
1. To develop a process to help districts align their existing frameworks.
2. To develop a new framework firmly rooted in the Common Core, called the Insight Core Framework.
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