Sunday, July 7, 2013
Common Core- Week 3
Common Core has been thrown out there as a common set of standards, but other then that...what is it? While exploring on Edutopia I found a great, short video from the Hunt Institute about them. I would like to share a little about what I found. The United States ranks #14 in education, to me that is unacceptable. Common Core was created by the states, for the states. The looked into other countries education and formed the best standards not to only prepare students for college, but for the workforce. The Common Core standards are clear, consistent, rigorous, and relevant. At the current time 45 states, District of Columbia, the Department of Defense (all military base schools), and 4 territories are following them. My question are they continually being looked over and updated? I don't believe education can be timeless so unless they are kept current student will be learning the same things, and be on the same level, but they may be out dated.
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I'm sure that is the plan...but the CC is still relatively new. Still controversial about how states (and individual) schools are using them. For example, what does it really mean when we say that "...we are aligning our curriculum to the Common Core?" What does that mean? Huge differences in interpretation. Examples from our class, anyone?
ReplyDeleteI would assume aligning curriculum to to CC means that we are changing it to meet this new updated curriculum. But, I am not teaching, so I don't have any insight to what is actually happening in school. I just know what we are learning in class.
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