The most helpful thing I see at first on the Georgia Standards website are all of the videos that you can watch directly there. There are English videos, one in particular on 9th grade Narrative Writing, which includes an interview with a teacher at Campbell High School in GA. This could be immensely helpful for first year teachers.
There is info for grades K-12, but I focused on what was available for just ELA teachers in 9-12. That alone was pretty full of information!
The “Frameworks” area offers the following helpful descriptions:
- EOCT Content
- American Lit & Comp
- 9th Grade Lit and Composition
- GA High School Graduation Test
- GA Writing Assessment
- CRCT Content
Wonderful glossaries for Reading, Writing, and Middle Grades appear under the heading “Vertically Aligned Matrices.” This section would be a great reference for teachers.
Lesson plans and sample syllabuses (or is it syllabi?) are on the ELA pages. This information helps not only first year teachers, but can be useful for us MAT’ers in our education classes as well as in our internships. The lesson plans are pretty specific, down to units on poetry, the power of persuasion, and classical tragedy. The best part about those on this site are that they would naturally be tied to the Georgia standards for each of the subjects. It also includes unit planning in ELA tied to Georgia standards. All of this is in addition to the actual standards that we have to meet in our teaching. Way more info than I thought would be there…and very practical!
Thanks, Dr. C, for showing us this!
