Education is not the same anymore. I haven’t been doing this job for very
long. I completed my teacher education
program in May 2003. After that, I was
a substitute teacher, and then I worked as a ESL/Pre GED instructor at a for
family literacy program. I didn’t get my
first teaching job until 2006, months after I finished my Master’s degree in Special
Education. In the last few years, there has been significant shifts in education. One of the major shifts has been the Common
Core State standards. The Common Core
State Standards are an initiative that seeks to bring diverse state curricula
into alignment with each other. The idea behind having national standards may be good. I worked in various
states thought my career, each state use to have their own set of
standards. If we are a united country,
it may be necessary for our school systems to be united too, and to have one
goal…to prepare our students to be college and career ready by the end of 12th
grade.
Recently one of my Facebook friends posted about the Common Core modules. Her son is gifted and at age ten has already skipped a grade. He graduated from a private elementary school and had to go to public school, because there are no private Middle Schools in her area. The child is board at school. He finishes his work quickly and has to wait for other children to catch up. The teachers can't give this child a different assignment because they must follow these scripted modules. It was suggested that he be put into a 7th or 8th grade ELA class, but the books they read in these class, based on common core modules, have murder and rape in them so they are not age appropriate. Everyone's hands are tied in this situation.
One teacher wrote an excellent post about his take on the Common Core modules. Please read it, and form your own opinions on the Common Core.
theplainsatisfactions.wordpress.com/.../teacher-ken-siders-not-to-miss-perspective-on-classroom-modules/
Thank you for your thoughts. I am the one questioning CCSS on the other forum which you posted this link. I am NJS..... the post op on that forum. I am not in NY, I'm in TN. My sister is a school board member in IL, a Chicago suburb and she has been hot on this trail for about a year.
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