Resource Blog #3: LDC

It is interesting that this week’s topic is assessment. I took a class on assessment this
summer and it is where I learned about the resource I chose for this blog post. This
site is called Core Tools and is a resource from the Literacy Design Collaborative or
LDC. On this site, LDC provides a platform for teachers (users) to post lessons
complete with standards (from the common core and a variety of states’) as well as
aides to the content (including worksheets and powerpoints), and they provide rubrics
and some examples of student work to help guide your (the teachers) grading. This
website gives the user the opportunity to save particular lessons to their own
personal library for easy access later. The lessons are also scored by the LDC
and given marks such as exemplary, good to go or unrated. This is based off the
previously listed tenants and others. Teachers can also search for content based
on grade level and content area. This resource is best for English and history
teachers but does provide some information for math and science teachers as well.
This resource is free! Some of the content covered on the website consist of
information that one would not normally classify as something covered by the core
four, for example: academic integrity and plagiarism. These topics are not normally
covered exclusively in lessons but are usually glossed over, these topics can be great
to be able cover difficult topics and cover them in depth with the “why” versus just the
rule. I like this website because it is easy to use and provides me with a lot of different
resources and rubrics to use if I see fit. The literacy materials included with the lessons
are articles from journals and various other content which help teachers to get away
from textbooks. 

 

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