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If you have ever searched for resources on teaching CER to English Language Learners or students with IEPs, you have probably noticed something: almost everything out there is written for a general classroom. The assumption is that your students can read the prompt, understand the vocabulary, organize their thinking, and get words on paper without too much trouble.
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It is Thursday afternoon. You have a stack of CER paragraphs to grade, and all you can think of is, “Will I be able to get through all of these today without having to stay late or continue working over the weekend?” You open the first one, read it carefully using your rubric, write a comment about the missing numbers in the evidence, another comment about the reasoning n...
If you have ever been to a professional development session on teaching CER and walked away thinking “this sounds great, but I have no idea where it fits in my already packed curriculum,” you are not alone. That was a common topic of discussion at lunch when CER was first being rolled out during our district PD sessions.
This is the mindshift that changed everything...