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Getting Ready for College, Careers, and the Common Core : What Every Educator Needs to Know.

Create programs that prepare students for college, careers, and the new and challenging assessments of the Common Core State Standards Written for all educators but with an emphasis on those at the secondary level, this important resource shows how to develop programs that truly prepare students for...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Conley, David T.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Wiley, 2013.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Getting Ready for College, Careers, and the Common Core: What Every Educator Needs to Know; Copyright; Contents; Preface; The Social Justice Imperative; Putting Ideas into Practice: Easier Said Than Done; The Fork in the Road; An Unexpected Turn into College Readiness; Taking Readiness to the National Level; How Far Have We Come toward Readiness?; Acknowledgments; The Author; Introduction; The Common Core State Standards, Student Ownership of Learning, and College and Career Readiness; The Role of Elementary and Secondary Schools; The Elementary School as Frame Setter.
  • Secondary School, a Time for Students to Set Aspirations and Define InterestsOverview of the Chapters; Using This Book to Support Implementation of the Common Core State Standards; Design of the Book; What the Book Is Not About; What This Book Is About; Chapter 1: The New Challenge: All Students College and Career Ready; Why College and Career Readiness for All?; The Changing US Economy and the Changing Nature of Work; Economic Impact of Education; From Vocational Education to Career Technical Education; The Academic Core; Creating College Readiness and Career Readiness for All.
  • The Rise of College Readiness StandardsChapter 2: College Readiness, Career Readiness: Same or Different?; Exploring Readiness More Deeply; Academic Content and Cross-Disciplinary Skills; The Common Core Connection to College and Career Readiness; The Key Skills All Students Need; Connecting Student Interests and Goals to College and Career Readiness; Levels of Readiness; My Definition of College and Career Ready; Chapter 3: The Four Keys to College and Career Readiness; The Four Keys: An Overview; Key Cognitive Strategies; Key Content Knowledge; Key Learning Skills and Techniques.
  • Key Transition Knowledge and SkillsKey Cognitive Strategies in Depth; The Five Key Cognitive Strategies; Teaching to the Key Cognitive Strategies; Key Content Knowledge in Depth; What's Important to Know?; Teaching Key Content Knowledge; Chapter 4: The Four Keys Continued: Learning Skillsand Transition Skills; Key Learning Skills and Techniques in Depth; The Achievement Gap; Ownership of Learning; Learning Techniques; Valuing the Key Learning Skills and Techniques; Key Transition Knowledge and Skills in Depth; The Five Aspects of Key Transition Skills.
  • Preparing All Students for the TransitionThe Complexity of College and Career Readiness; Chapter 5: Toward Deeper Learning; Some Framing Characteristics of the Learning Process; Knowledge Complexity Progression; What Is Deeper Learning?; Historical Summary; Why We Need Deeper Learning Now; Four Models of Deeper Learning; Hewlett Deeper Learning Model; National Research Council Education for Life and Work Model; The Four Keys to College and Career Readiness Model; Partnership for 21st Century Skills Model; Comparison of Models; Overview of Research Foundation for Deeper Learning.