Holy Mesopotamia Batman: First Grade Common Core Social Studies vocabulary

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175. Yup. Throughout the thread.

In all honesty I think the majority of the teachers I am with like the common core. It's stressful, because the new teacher evaluations is married to this rubric, but I think it's an important and necessary part to putting all of America's children on the same page, so to speak. Mainly because finally majority of the States will have to follow the same prerequisites across the board. More often than not many students are father behind than other students dependent on the area they are from.

The other benefit of the common core I find is that it doesn't regulate how this information is being distributed. What I mean is that there is no regulations to restrict the creativity, individuality, or approach of a teacher. It basically gives us free license to bring the content and the academic language the States deems required in our own way.

Therefore this idea that there is a script is utter nonsense. There is no script written out. For instance as an ESL teacher, I have allowed my students to draw answers for me. As long as I can make out what they mean it's acceptable. This is preferable for our pre-writing ELL's. And it's a differentiated format in order to have the students meet the requirement but also maintaining a platform for students to be able to express their knowledge of the content in any way or form. This is through our discretion.

So the weird anti crowd against the common core, I feel don't really grasp it's intention. Ultimately the common core is set up to build students capacity to standardized testing. Which unfortunately, we cannot get away from and determines a students grade level. Since it is here, and we have a good two years or so before the new differentiated examinations are, hopefully, rolled out. The state is only laying a rubric for us to follow ---but not dictating how to implement it.