blog : January 2013
Common Core State Standards 4-1-1
1/22/2013
The first thing that we need to think about when we look
at CCSS and this new generation of standards is one of the
most important aspects about it: students are at the center of
learning.
When you read the CCSS, you’ll notice that the standards are
written from a student perspective and provides us with a lens
as we consider the “how and why” of our instruction at the
classroom level. Using this lens, we notice that CCSS defines
skills and how these skills can be used and developed in order
to acquire content knowledge (and be able to use that content
knowledge in significant, meaningful and original ways).
CCSS promotes a different level of understanding –when kids
can synthesize, analyze, apply and talk about and be able to
articulate new understandings on their own.
In order to develop the skills that CCSS promotes, teachers
must immerse our students in a wide variety of texts in
many different subjects. Therefore, there's less emphasis
on textbooks and greater emphasis on original documents
and novels and texts that we can also find on the Internet.
Additionally, CCSS also positions students to become
increasingly independent learners. CCSS is all about
application.
In order to meet the expectations of CCSS, teachers need to
provide learning opportunities through inquiry projects,
portfolios, web quests, literature circles, and collaborative
projects. All of these are examples of valuable learning
experiences where students apply the skill sets and the
knowledge that they're learning. Students are at the center
of learning and I think that’s what drew so many of us to the
teaching profession.
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