Online
Learning
Field
Activities
Common
Core 3.0
Classroom
Skill
Building

Common Core 3.0 Project Overview
Who can give a brief (two sentence) overview of one of these elements of
Common Core 3.0? (including the reason for the element)
• Practice Areas
• Modalities
• 100 and 200

Practice Areas

Modalities

Higher Order Thinking Skills
Evaluation
Synthesis
Analysis
Application
Comprehension
Knowledge
Lower Order Thinking Skills

New Projects: A Cycle
Stage 3:
Hopeful Realism
Stage 2:
Informed
Pessimism
Checking out
Stage 4:
Informed
Optimism
Stage 1:
Uninformed
Optimism
Stage 5:
Completion

Hopeful Realism

Activity: Perform a Project Premortem
We all know you learn more from failure than from success

Prospective Hindsight
• Imagining that an event has already occurred increases the ability to correctly identify reasons for future outcomes by 30%
• Using prospective hindsight to conduct a premortem helps project teams identify risks at the outset
• Doing this at the beginning of a project rather than the end allows the project to be improved rather than autopsied

It’s Better to Know Now

And Prepare for the Worst

4 Steps
• Work individually to imagine the project has failed spectacularly and independently write down every reason you can think of for the failure
• Group share – work together to make a list of all the potential pitfalls
• Work individually to identify one new thing you or your team can do to support the project or prevent a potential pitfall
• Group share – work together to make a list of all the pre-emptive supports

Step 1: Imagine Spectacular Failure

Step 2: Share Your Pitfalls

Step 3: Think of a Protective or
Preventive Action You Could Take

Step 4:
Share Your Best Ideas

Transition to Affinity Groups
Work together to identify ways your affinity group can begin preparing for CC3.0 implementation.