Resources for Teachers
The CCRS program is developing a number of resources to help educators more completely facilitate college readiness in the classroom. These resources highlight and reinforce key readiness skills in each of the four core subject areas: English language arts, mathematics, science and social studies. These teaching resources may include videos, lesson plans and student handouts. All materials are TEKS and CCRS-aligned.
English language arts (ELA) as defined by the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) and the college and career readiness standards consists of five core skill areas: Writing, Reading, Speaking, Listening and Research. The resources below are designed to help educators deepen instruction in these five core ELA skill areas.
Standards Gap Analysis
This educator-developed analysis examines how effectively the existing ELA TEKS address the new college and career readiness standards. The gap analysis offers a fine-grained look at which skills may deserve additional instructional time in order to strengthen the academic readiness of students.
DownloadTeaching Resources
The CCRS project has developed instructional resources in each of the five ELA skill areas. These resources are designed to help teachers more directly emphasize ELA college and career readiness skills in their day-to-day instruction, and include:
- A set of web-based resources that support instruction on specific ELA competencies, and
- A companion set of sample instructional strategies (lessons) for each web resource
Special emphasis has been given to developing instructional resources in the writing skill area. Educators consistently rank this as one of the most difficult areas of practice for their students. The CCRS project has teamed with university and high school teachers to develop a series of videos that model effective instructional techniques in various key writing skills. Each video is accompanied by a full lesson plan.
Additionally, extensive writing resources have been developed for students themselves. These writing resources are located on the Student Writing Resources page, and offer an excellent complement to the teacher resources found here. Click on an ELA skill area to view all of the teaching resources that are currently available.
Mathematics instructional resources are under development now and will be available in 2010.
Standards Gap Analysis
This educator-developed analysis examines how effectively the existing mathematics TEKS address the new college and career readiness standards. The gap analysis offers a fine-grained look at which skills may deserve additional instructional time in order to strengthen the academic readiness of students.
Science resources are under development now and will be available in 2011.
Standards Gap Analysis
This educator-developed analysis examines how effectively the existing science TEKS address the new college and career readiness standards. The gap analysis offers a fine-grained look at which skills may deserve additional instructional time in order to strengthen the academic readiness of students.
Social studies resources are under development now and will be available in 2011.
Standards Gap Analysis
This educator-developed analysis examines how effectively the existing social studies TEKS address the new college and career readiness standards. The gap analysis offers a fine-grained look at which skills may deserve additional instructional time in order to strengthen the academic readiness of students.
