Unpacking Standards in Middle School PLC

This video of teachers in a Middle School PLC unpacking a seventh grade English standard, was produced as part of a partnership between NJIT and the NJDOE to provide support for NJ educators in the Online Professional Learning Exchange or OPLE. For more information, please visit www.NJCORE.ORG or www.online-plc.org". This video presents

[@leofrancovich3892]

I have a feeling that teachers rarely unpack standards like this. It is very staged.

[@dianerusso7715]

It is ironic to hear Christine say that it is "beneficial to hear other peoples' input" to hear about something overlooked. She was the one doing the majority of the speaking and interrupting the others.

[@cassidyvause5073]

This video focuses in on the white woman while she talks, and the white man when he's not even talking, but when the black women speak the camera only focuses in a few times on one and not at all on the other. I realize that isn't the point of the video, but what in the world kind of racial bias was going on with the filming.

[@MarkWilliams-gy9bi]

Bureaucratic nonsense. Busy-work.