Greetings to classmates,
After viewing the video on Common
Core Standards in the Elementary Schools, the advantage mentioned in the video
is the ability to bring teachers, principals, and parents together to work on same
concepts across the nation. When everyone work together to discuss about what
works and what doesn’t in achieving the standards, they become proactive about
future and present students’ achievements. CC initiatives enable all students
across the nation to be on the same page. They learn about the same things and
are able to compete with the world with further knowledge. The greatest
advantage is by having CCS across the nation, schools can work together in
promoting the best learning approaches and teaching style that correlates with
the same standards. Every child learns differently, therefore it is best for
teachers to work around those needs by adapting teaching techniques that cover
the CCS with other teachers.
CCS can be
a road block to the success of students learning because of the large amount of
time that teachers have to put out to cover all of the CCS. Some teachers teach
at a slower pace than others making it difficult to adjust to CCS. Another
disadvantage is exposing new and specific standards to teachers will take some
time. Most of the teachers learned the old standards and are more familiar with
them than CCS. They have a routine way of teaching those standards and will
find it difficult to adjust to newly adapted CCS. Overall, I think CCS is
amazing in its way to combine the national standards together so that students
and teachers can share their learning easily through the web and make the best
out of their learning goals.
Nhu Y
APA Citation:
Teaching Channel. (2011). Common
core state standards: Elementary school [Theater]. Available from
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IPxt794-yU&feature=youtu.be
Nhu,
ReplyDeleteI watched this video as well and believe that implementing these standards are a very good idea because it will unify education across the nation and create a larger pool of resources for teachers to glean from and provide more support for the students. As one spokesman said towards the end of the video 90% of what these standards are trying to accomplish is already occuring in the classroom so the only road block would be teachers that have been teaching for a long time. Once they see that this really isn't that much diffrent than what they are already doing thye will hopefully happily come on board. Personally I am excited to be entering the education field during this time of change and look forward to being able to implement these in my own classroom some day.
See you on Tuesday,
Sheila Lowe