The Common Core State Standards has created some controversy since it has been introduced. Older teachers wonder if it will even work. They are set in their mind set that this, like all other standards, will fail and disappear within a couple years. It’s hard to disagree with them when they have the background knowledge of state standards and have seen many come and go, but this state standard is different than others that have been introduced. The Common Core State Standards allows teachers to create their own curriculum and teachers don’t feel like they have to only teach to the state test.
Because of previous standards many students were being held back from exceeding and others were forced to suffer. I have seen first hand during my time in high school that my teachers were not pushing us to further in English Language Arts. It seemed that my teachers were only trying to get the basics across so that we could pass the WASL. Although it was a perfect pace for me, I could tell some of my fellow classmates were bored from either not being challenged or because they were so lost. Also my English class curriculum had no cultural background. In a school where 98% of the school was of white ethnicity.
As a future teacher I am excited to experience CCSS. It will allow me to bring my own twist to my curriculum and get ideas from other teachers as well. With this system there will be more creative ways to teach materials and students will feed of that creativity and take it with them as they go onto college. I wish CCSS was around when I was a student in the secondary level, maybe then I would have more creativity within my classroom at Mead High School. CCSS are more so guidelines for teacher to reach, it doesn’t matter how they reach this standard but as long as they do their students will prosper.
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