Planning

Planning Rubic and Integration Ideas
 * **Indicator** || **Significantly Above Expectations (5)** ||  || **Technology Resources and Tools** ||
 * ==Instructional==

Plans
|| **Instructional plans include:** > content standards; > knowledge, and interests of all learners; and > opportunities to accommodate individual student > needs. ||  || MSP2 - Middle School Portal2 - Math and Science Pathways - Middle school math and science teacher social network.
 * measurable and explicit goals aligned to state
 * activities, materials, and assessments that:
 * are aligned to state standards.
 * are sequenced from basic to complex.
 * build on prior student knowledge, are relevant
 * to students’ lives, and integrate other disciplines.
 * provide appropriate time for student work,
 * student reflection, and lesson and unit closure;
 * evidence that plan is appropriate for the age,
 * evidence that the plan provides regular

Thinkfinity Teacher Community - A community site with lots of teaching and learning materials.

Thinkfinity - Thousands of free lesson plans available.

Common Core Website: Steal These Tools provides free tools for the implementation of common core. This is a growing database. @http://www.achievethecore.org/steal-these-tools

Info from BattelleforKids.org/Tennessee
[|www.BattelleforKIds.org/Tennessee]

[|www.tapsystem.org] [|www.nietbestpractices.org] In the training modules: one module for each domain. Under the domain, the performance indicator number on the evaluation rubric matches the training module number in the list of contents. Some provide a beginner module and an expert module. The video library includes lessons by subject-area and grade-level.

[|www.edutopia.org/teacher-development] Includes information and videos around teacher development and a link to resources related to Schools that Work and resources for each of the four grade bands.

[|www.tnelc.org] "ELC Presents" Effective Practice Series: 45 Podcasts focused on nine instructional strategies included in the teacher evaluation indicators. Presentations are relevant to all grade levels. Access to the podcasts is through iTunesU. "ELC Presents" and "Educator Resources" are the primary links for evaluation-related videos.

[|www.ReadTennessee.org] The "Teacher Toolkit" section of the website connects users with materials available through reading and language arts resource networks. It also provides research-based resources for reading and other areas of English language arts instruction as well as family engagement strategies.

BattelleforKids - List of Resources for Curriculum and Instructional Support Materials

[|www.BattelleforKids.org/Tennessee] Statewide access to Battelle for Kids' professional development, online learning and resources designed to accelerate Tennessee K-12 public school districts' efforts to increase student progress and achievement statewide as part of First to the Top.

[] Resources and information to translate research-based practices into practical tools to improve classroom instruction.

[|www.ct.gov/cen/cwp] Extensive list of resources for content support.

[|www.ncte.org] Resources and links to additional support for the teaching of literacy, communication and language arts.

[|www.parcconline.org/classroom] PARCC's goal is to provide guidance and support that will help teachers bring the Common Core State Standards to life in their classrooms. This section will contain a number of different tools over time to support educators.

[|www.stemresources.com] Standards-based instructional tools, curriculum materials and additional Internet resource links.

[|www.thegateway.org] This link will give you access to Internet-based lesson plans, instructional units and other educational materials in multiple formats. The Gateway''s goal is to improve organization and accessibility of the substantial collections of materials that are already available on various federal, state, university, non-profit, and commercial Internet sites.

w[|ww.TNCurriculumCenter.org] Includes online resources, information and links to websites that directly link to Tennessee standards for K-12 English/language arts, mathematics and science. || > evaluate information rather than reproduce it; > produce arguments that are supported through > extended writing; and > observations, feelings, or situations significant in > their daily lives both inside and outside of > school. ||  || Real World Math Adventure  - Math at the Mall is an interactive site where students can practice percentages while shopping at a virtual mall.
 * ==Student Work== || **Assignments require __students__ to:**
 * organize, interpret, analyze, synthesize, and
 * draw conclusions, make generalizations, and
 * connect what they are learning to experiences,

Math by Design- An interactive site that encourages students to problem solve and think critically as they encounter unique geometry and measurement challenges. Students are introduced to the TRC Architectural firm as junior architects who are commissioned to build environments by working through a series of mathematical tasks.

Maps Home Page - Interactive site that helps students understand reading a map, finding distances, latitude and longitude, contour maps, etc.

Real World Math - Lesson plans on using Google Earth in the mathematics classroom, includes tutorials.

The Futures Channel- The Futures Channel partners with schools around the country as well as a wide range of publishers, science centers, professional development service providers, public television stations, websites and more to provide high quality real world digital content to enhance their education.

CNN Student News - CNN Student News is a ten-minute, commercial-free, daily news program for middle and high school students produced by the journalists and educators at CNN.

The Big Picture- A photo blog where entries are posted every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. The Big Picture is intended to highlight high-quality, amazing imagery, with a focus on current events.

Vernier Probes and Sensors- organizing real world science and math data for students to interpret, analyze, synthesize, and evaluate. || > ways (e.g., in the form of a project, experiment, > presentation, essay, short answer, or multiple choice test; > student progress toward state content standards; and > will be used to inform future instruction. ||  || Formative Assessment Techniques - A list of formative assessment techniques from Highland Park Middle School. Even though this is a middle school website many of these techniques work for elementary and high school students also.
 * ==Assessment== || **Assessment Plans:**
 * are aligned with state content standards;
 * have clear measurement criteria;
 * measure student performance in more than three
 * require extended written tasks;
 * are portfolio-based with clear illustrations of
 * include descriptions of how assessment results

STEM- A list of formative assessment strategies from the Tennessee STEM website

STEM Pre-Assessment -A list of pre-assessment strategies from the Tennessee STEM website.

Portfolio Folders on School Servers - not deleted and follow student year to year

CPS

Socrative ||