Common Core Standards Initiative: Preparing America's Students for College and Career
http://www.corestandards.org/
School Improvement Network Leads the Field in Common Core Innovation and Implementation
The Common Core Standards—a new set of performance-based education standards set to hit most schools in the U.S. as soon as 2014. They are the most significant education initiative to be launched in over a decade. States and districts are scrambling to obtain resources to train their educators in what the Common Core Standards are, and how to implement them.
Dr. Lisa Leith outlined a webinar of strategies for employing the Common Core Standards to better develop classroom management, and to motivate struggling students. One of the strengths of the newly adapted stanards is that the design places a students education in their own hans. Students have more control over how and what they learn which empowers them and makes them eager to learn.
* Create clear goals for students
* Reconnect cause and effect
* Orient students in time
* Encourage future focus for college, career, and beyond
Dr. Leith’s presentation, with audio and visual components, can be downloaded for free online at http://www.commoncore360.com/webinars, along with the entire Common Core webinar series which is free and open to the public.
References
Sprague, Duane (2012). Learn How the Common Core Can Help with Classroom Management. Retrieved by http://www.prweb.com/
Angela and Michael,
ReplyDeleteI had no idea that the US was finally centralizing their standards. I know that, for years, states have been in charge of setting the standards they wished to achieve, and that while several of them matched, there was still a significant discrepancy between states (I will never forget that my brother mostly slept through high school in rural Florida because he wasn't learning anything he hadn't already learned by the time he graduate 8th grade in suburban Illinois). Having core standards that are solid across the country will not only make it easier on teachers in the long run, and make it easier for students to move schools over long distances, but as you say in this post, it will also put learning in the students' hands. If there's anyone that can tell us who learns best doing what thing, it's the students.
Great post, and I'll definitely be keeping an eye on this.
Stephanie