Did Virginia adopt the common core?

[Anonymous]

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It shouldn't be passing out worksheets and then tutoring them individually if she has time while the students work in silence. Again, that's improper application of the flipped classroom. There may be some individual work, but it should be combined with group work where kids can help each other (which reinforces understanding even for the students who already get it) and the teacher can work with small groups to resolve confusion in a more efficient way than working with each child individually. It also can allow most sophisticated applications of the lessons when the teacher can come around and work with each group for a few minutes to help give them clarification and guidance. I'm not saying it's a flawless model, it's one that has to be implemented well to work (which is the case with any educational model), but it has a lot going for it.


I guess no one wants to be part of a system that fails but a teaching system reliant on the parents teaching at home and kids teaching each other in school is going to do just that...Fail. No amount of marketing propaganda is going to change that.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Not sure why the PP keeps rushing to defend Common Core.

Pretty sure that she's the one who has been saying not to blame the standards. She sees no connection between standards and curriculum.

There's more than one of us defending Common Core. Of course there is a connection between standards and curriculum, but poor implementation of curriculum does not necessarily mean the standards are bad.

Arne Duncan lives in Arlington right? Wouldn't be surprised if he comes on here to defend CC.

[Anonymous]

Arne Duncan lives in Arlington right? Wouldn't be surprised if he comes on here to defend CC.

LOL!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have to laugh. You are all obviously young people because common core is really how math was taught in the 50s and 60s. It actually works better because it teaches the relationships of numbers, beginning with the relationship to 10. It works the same way you use an abacus.

The way they taught math in the late 70's, 80's and 90's, and as far as I know into the 2000's was screwed up. That's when this country started to lose their advantage in math.

Instead of complaining, educate yourselves.

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[Anonymous]

I have to laugh. You are all obviously young people because common core is really how math was taught in the 50s and 60s. It actually works better because it teaches the relationships of numbers, beginning with the relationship to 10. It works the same way you use an abacus.

False statement. I knew fifties math. I taught sixties math. Common Core is no fifties or sixties math.

[Anonymous]

Well, I don't know where you taught math, but if you didn't use the abacus as a basis for foundational understanding of math, then you weren't teaching in my school district. I grew up in New England, so maybe they were behind in the south.

[Anonymous]

I wasn't addressing the abacus. If you think Common Core is all about the abacus, you are sadly mistaken.