Holy Mesopotamia Batman: First Grade Common Core Social Studies vocabulary

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185. Don't believe what you're reading. What script?!

Find it for me and show me. Because if there is a script, why am I spending 3 freakin' hours a day writing lesson plans. Why am I spending an additional 45 minutes every day, except Friday where it's 2-3 hours talking to my fellow teachers in tweaking lesson plans, creating stations and differentiating the work?

If there is a bloody script why the fuck am I even bothering to create examinations periodically every 2 weeks and translating them into various languages.

Until you're a teacher please, don't tell me what is scripted. Those are a list of expectations to help guide the teacher on the information necessary students needed to have learned by the end of the year. In some cases for a standardized exam and in some cases not. It seems you would actually rather believe commentators on an article rather than the teachers themselves who work first hand with this rubric and use it to guide their teaching.

If that is a script. I didn't know, since my understanding of a script is pre-written words that are mapped out. If you told me our classes were like the Wilson Reading Method or the Spalding System and the myriad of other scripted phonics lessons--that I understand. However, our classrooms are nothing like that under the CCSS.

At this point I feel like I'm having a circular conversation. Because you believe what you want. My experience is saying something completely different. I was able to teach multi-culturalism in every class I had and I made it a point that at least 3 times a week students were given a content based lesson with executive function skills. Common Core doesn't push these things but they are all aspects I find important in lessons that are integrated with CCSS demands and they are successful--depending on the way they are presented.