Teachers should devote at least 100% of their time to “informational text” (and Common Core math would indicate even more)In my experience, the CCSS informational text is information about how glorious technology companies are. Why Shepherd Center? If what you are doing works well, keep doing it. The NGSS will make objective test writing a near impossibility; beyond ironic given the nature of science.A short post like the one above (thanks for reposting it, Diane!) It is based on the NAEP instructions to assessment developers; these instructions were never intended as guidelines for teachers. But it can be done. We help our students develop a clear understanding that God loves all and that each individual is unique and beautiful in their own way. Admissions Bob Shepherd, a frequent contributor, also a textbook writer, assessment developer, author, and classroom teacher, writes about the effect of Common Core on the teaching of literature. I will happily pay for private school and pray for the return of normalcy and teacher autonomy in public schools. However, the post explains pretty accurately, I think, the devolution of ELA curricula in the U.S. as a result of making tests on the CC$$ skills list high stakes. And it gets worse every year.And the kicker? 404-352-2020 No content passes through kid’s heads, and they get to high school not knowing even basic things like the continents or oceans or who won the American Revolution.
So many parents are fleeing the public system to save their children. Both levels cover the same content; however, Level B … Standardization is Innovation.But one expects a monopolist to make such an absurd claim. We'll be in touch soon. Three years of MS CCSS, behavior problems due to boredom (grammar packets galore/kill drill math /NGSS! Glad I taught elementary music and band. .Someday maybe people will wake up. This is Orwellian NewSpeak. Of course, now that the arts aren’t important, they can be eliminated so that computers will rule. This is life-changing stuff. Patient Programs Admissions The BSN requires specific courses to satisfy some Core Curriculum requirements (Lab Sciences and Social Science). It is truly sad that public education has become such a disaster.Somebody gave me good advice about teaching. Find us
2019-2020. Child #1 will graduate from public HS this year and was much more capable of making “lemonade out of lemons” when it came to CCSS….and yes, our state of MD proudly declares CC is alive and well and perfectly aligned to the test du jour. Child #2 reads more classic literature in 1 year of private HS than child #1 has had in 4 yrs of public HS (in GT and AP programs!). In the meantime, please continue to explore After sustaining a C-5-to-C-6 SCI in a motocross crash, Bruce Howerton pivoted on his career all while tending to h… Important information from Shepherd Center regarding the coronavirus. He omits my biggest gripe about CCSS: the arbitrary requirement that teachers must devote 50% of their time to literature and 50% to “informational texts” in the early… General frameworks that call for acquisition of descriptive and procedural knowledge, not content-free, abstract skills lists like the puerile, execrable Common [sic] Core [sic].Why content-based general frameworks instead of standards bullet lists? Far from it. Teachers should make their own choices.“And now, a whole generation of teachers has entered the profession and grown up under a Vichy regime that treats this madness, this devolved, trivialized curriculum, as ideal.”And why? CBKI have a BA in French. The growing popularity of voice-activated technologies is forcing educators to think about the role such tools play in preparing students for the jobs of the future.”“How 4 Communities Are Struggling to Prepare Kids for an Uncertain Future. I am a retired teacher.And this is the exact reason that child #2 attends a private HS. Historians make rare war heroes, but Bloch returned to occupied France even though he was too old to fight as he had been trying to when he was ferried out of the country at Dunkirk. Ignorance is Strength.