Why are people so upset about Common Core?
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Anonymous
Again, not first grade skill for many. End of first grade, perhaps. |
Anonymous
But in NY, where these worksheets are coming from, the teacher's job is not to pick or create a worksheet. The teacher's job is to assign the worksheet that is in the pacing guide. You can argue that that shouldn't be the way it works, but that's the way it currently does work. |
Anonymous
I can see this as not meeting the standard to some teachers. For instance, I can say that wanting to eat ice cream every day does not provide adequate closure. Wanting to eat ice cream every day isn't really closure. So when testing for something like this, I can see that there might be multiple sentences that could meet the standards. Does the child pick A or B? Why is A a better answer than B, especially when dealing with "some sense of closure". |
Anonymous
That's what standards are. They are a description of the point where a student should be at the end of the grade. Most kids can write a simple 3 or 4 sentence piece in first grade. It may not be spelled beautifully or grammatically correct but they can meet the standard. |
Anonymous
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2014/05/02/6-reasons-to-reject-common-core-k-3-standards-and-6-axioms-to-guide-policy/
From " Six Reasons to Reject Common Core" "An example of a developmentally inappropriate Common Core standard for kindergarten is one that requires children to “read emergent reader texts with purpose and understanding.” Many young children are not developmentally ready to read in kindergarten and there is no research to support teaching reading in kindergarten. There is no research showing long-term advantages to reading at 5 compared to reading at 6 or 7.6" AND "The CCSS do not comply with the internationally and nationally recognized protocol for writing professional standards. They were written without due process, transparency, or participation by knowledgeable parties. Two committees made up of 135 people wrote the standards – and not one of them was a K-3 classroom teacher or early childhood education professional. When the CCSS were first released, more than 500 early childhood professionals signed a Joint Statement opposing the standards on the grounds that they would lead to long hours of direct instruction; more standardized testing; and would crowd out highly important active, play-based learning. " |
Anonymous
If I went to my boss and said "Well, I picked the document out of the guide and it was incorrect, but I handed it out anyway, as that's my job", I would be looked upon as inefficient and having no initiative. And that's being kind. If the worksheet is wrong in the guide, FIX IT FIRST AND THEN HAND IT OUT. This is not rocket science. If you are saying it's not the teacher's job to do this, you have just proved my point. And if that's the way it's supposed to work, then you've just proved how inefficient public schools are. |
Anonymous
The teacher is who is in the classroom with the children. Are you stating that the teacher should hand out something that he/she knows is incorrect because she didn't create them? |
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From http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2014/05/02/6-reasons-to-reject-common-core-k-3-standards-and-6-axioms-to-guide-policy/
As a teacher for 24 years who has spent her entire career teaching inner city youth, all I can say is YES! The standards are inappropriate for young children. Today was the last day of NYS math tests, and I had to supervise lovely, bright, hard-working students who were crying, sitting in fetal positions, asking me questions I was not allowed to answer, and two of them ended up in the nurse's office throwing up. The ELA test was entirely appropriate for 5th graders, not the third graders who endured 3 1/2 hours of it without the slightest chance of understanding it. The first two days of the math test were fair, full of questions that third graders can understand and reasonably answer. That was not the case today. All of the adults had trouble answering a number of the questions. Each question required 2 or 3 different computations and a level of math comprehension well beyond what a child this age could truly be expected to answer. Why are people with no credentials in these areas creating the standards, curriculum and testing? If this was any other field, there would be an uproar. Imagine if elementary teachers were creating standards for lawyers, if doctors created the standards for bankers, if politicians created the standards for medical care? Would it be acceptable? We are losing a generation of children to nonsense. It should be intolerable for everyone. |
Anonymous
You don't know what to say because you deliberately changed the subject to the child being taught personal responsible. The child is the victim here - being sent home with homework that makes no sense due to errors. If you send one a worksheet that the child can't figure out due to errors, the child is put in a bind. He/she knows she's supposed to do the homework but can't because it's wrong. So the child is now supposed to go into the teacher and say "this worksheet is wrong and I couldn't do my homework?" Since when is it a child's job to confront a teacher about the teacher's inadequacy? That's the parent's job. Adults deal with adults. If you send home a worksheet that's wrong, that's on you. Unless you don't take pride in your work. |
Anonymous
New York State. Not Common Core state Standards. New York State. |
Anonymous
Keep telling yourself the lie. Your kids will find out the hard way next April when they're the ones vomiting. |
Anonymous
Many young children are not developmentally ready to "read" by the end of kindergarten which is why the standards say only that they will be able to read "Emergent Reader" texts. Emergent Reader texts are intended for preK and K level readers. They make heavy use of pattern sentences, pictures and other cues to help kids begin to read. Think texts like: This is a farm (picture of a farm) This is a pig (picture of a pig) This is a chicken (picture of a chicken) etc. Explanation here of the characteristics of "Emergent Reader" text http://campus.kellerisd.net/schools/bpe-118/Parent%20Resources/Stages%20of%20Reading%20Development.pdf
Given the criticism teachers have been receiving here for being lazy and handing out error riddled worksheets, maybe its a good thing we weren't involved in the writing of the standards? I dunno. I teach early elementary reading and writing, and I think the standards are fine for early elementary kids. The K foundational skills standards are fantastic. Emphasis on non nonsense phonics that I feel are appropriate for most K students. Basic skills. If the biggest objection is the requirement for K students to read Emergent Reader books by the end of the year (again, basically patern sentences).... I think that's not too bad. K Foundational Skills
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Anonymous
I doubt it. My kids are in MD schools and both of them were selected to do PARCC field testing. They said there were some glitches with the hardware, but the tests themselves were not any big scary deal. My 3rd grader says that she's been taking practice tests based on the PARCC which are kind of hard because for multiple choice sometimes there isn't just one right answer, she has to choose ALL the right answers. That causes a little nervousness because she isn't so sure she's got them all. But her teachers tell her it's just a test to see what she knows; she should just do her best and not worry about it. So, no vomiting. |
Anonymous
Sorry, a teacher has every legal right, indeed has a moral responsibility, to suggest to a parent that his or her child has a learning issue that should be investigated. A possible learning problem is not a medical diagnosis. It is a teacher's place indeed to bring this concern up to a parent or to a school referral team! |