Don't be so sure that they are not mandating how you are going to teach with multiple tests driving the curriculum. We can't sit back and throw our hands up in the air because it seems inevitable. That's how we got in this mess in the first place. We have given up too much. It's time we took it back. Join Save Our Schools March and National Call to Action, July 28th - 30th in Washington, DC. www.saveourschoolsmarch.org Elisa Sent on the TELUS Mobility network with BlackBerry
-----Original Message----- From: kaui norton <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Sun, 22 May 2011 11:41:06 To: Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group<[email protected]> Reply-To: "Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Common Core Thank you for your thoughts. I do see your point. I suppose I should say that, although standards teaching may not be the best solution to our ongoing struggles to educate, it is, nevertheless, here to stay. At least, till the powers that be change their minds again! When I say I like it, it is because I am tired of teaching a gadzillion standards and benchmarks that are vague to say the least. In Hawai'i we have a ridiculous number of standards to teach. It has always been a guessing game for many teachers as to how to apply the standards mandated by our state. Many teachers, old and new, are totally lost because there is no direction in how to go about teaching to the standards, thus, we have teachers who don't teach them resulting in students who move on without the knowledge that they are expected to learn. Unfortunately, testing is always going to "drive" how we teach and what we teach. I don't see it changing any time soon. So...if that is so, then I believe I need to do the best, for my students, with what I am given. Of course, I will make every effort to fill the holes that appear. Honestly, I feel we are fighting a losing battle and need to cut our losses. I do know, they can't mandate, yet, how I teach the standards or what else I teach with them. THerefore, it is my responsibility to ensure my students get more than what they need to pass a test. --- On Sun, 5/22/11, John L. Perry <[email protected]> wrote: From: John L. Perry <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Common Core To: "'Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group'" <[email protected]> Date: Sunday, May 22, 2011, 5:40 AM Seems to me that more specific = worse, not better. The more specific standards are, the further away you get from overarching concepts that tie everything together and help students make sense of the world around them, and the closer you get to prescribing specific facts to be taught to the detriment of an overall ability to identify patterns/structures/relationships/systems that put all the facts into a comprehensible bigger picture. This is already the biggest flaw in our education system, so more "specific" standards will only serve to aggravate the problem. It's the wrong way to go in a world where exponential change calls for citizens who can recognize the bigger picture and harness that change for the greater good. I give full credit for these ideas to my much wiser friend Marion Brady. ( http://www.marionbrady.com/ ) Warmest Regards, John Perry -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of kaui norton Sent: Saturday, May 21, 2011 8:03 PM To: Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Common Core Aloha from Maui, Hawai'i! Our state is implementing Common Core for k-2 this coming year and 3-5 to follow in about two years, I think. BTW...what do you all think about Common Core? Personally, I like it. It is more specific than what we, presently, have. --- On Sat, 5/21/11, Laura Rieben <[email protected]> wrote: From: Laura Rieben <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Common Core To: "Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group" <[email protected]> Date: Saturday, May 21, 2011, 12:18 PM In my county in Maryland, only Kindergarten will do it next year, then 1 and 2nd, then 3rd on up. On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 3:55 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > South Dakota will pilot a roll out plan this summer. I like the Wyoming > plan. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Ronald Borchert [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Saturday, May 21, 2011 11:42 AM > To: [email protected] <[email protected]> > Subject: [MOSAIC] Common Core > > I am just curious to see what other schools/districts are doing about the > Common Core Standards. My state (Wyoming) has adopted the Common Core. In > my district, kindergarten through second grade will teach from the common > core in language arts and math beginning next school year. Three through > sixth grade will follow. > > Thank you! > Barb >_______________________________________________ > Mosaic mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to > http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. > > Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive. > > >_______________________________________________ > Mosaic mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to > http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. > > Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive. > > _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. 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