Whitepaper Essentials School Leader
Whitepaper Essentials School Leader
Whitepaper Essentials School Leader
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Introduction
Schools implementing new college and career
readiness standards across the nation are
facing serious challenges. While most districts
are fairly far along in the process of aligning
curriculum and textbooks to the standards,
teachers and school leaders still report that
they need targeted professional development
in pedagogy, the focused training to help
them teach lessons and units aimed at
achieving rigor.
These reports are more than anecdotal.
Indeed, multiple states have already shown
troubling drops in student scores with
assessments aligned to college and career
readiness standards. Our analysis of more than
2 million data points at Learning Sciences
International has revealed a significant
finding: Less than 6% of observed classroom
lessons are devoted to higher-order thinking
skills and cognitively complex learning
analysis, hypothesis generation and testing,
reasoning, decision-makingthose skills
that are the foundation of rigorous standards
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