I read three different articles about Common Core State Standards. The articles The Common Core: Insights into the K-5, Multimodal Composition and the Common Core State Standards, and Pathways to the Common Core: Accelerating Achievement (Chapter 6) brought up many key ideas and terms that are important to discuss and to keep in mind while teaching the Common Core State Standards. In this paper, you will read about five different main ideas on the Common Core State Standards I thought were important and why I thought they were considered key points.
While reading The Common Core: Insights into the K-5 Standards by Maureen McLaughlin and Brenda J. Overturf (2012) I identified a few main ideas. The first main idea I came across was that the Common …show more content…
In this article, a key idea that I read about was how integrating technology into the classroom is sometimes put on pause because of the teacher’s knowledge and experience with technology, pedagogy, and content (TPAC). The world is constantly changing and that is including technology. It is a teacher’s responsibility to change and grow with these changes that can be so important to student’s lives and help them to better their future and education. Technology is a complicated thing, but integrating it into the classroom betters the students because they are learning in a more fun and engaging way, rather than reading word-for-word from a textbook. Integrating technology into the classroom could start at watching a simple video clip about a topic or go all the way to doing a whole unit straight from computers and tablets. I think it is important for the teacher to adapt to the changing world of technology because it offers a wide variety of new ways to teach. As the article suggests, teachers who struggle with technology can pick an easy starting point and learn from there. Incorporating any bit of technology into the classroom will help educate the students in a new way and keep them …show more content…
These basic skills that are need for the students to succeed need to begin somewhere, the students do not just pick them up randomly. Elementary school is the primary beginning where students develop the necessary skills needed in order to be successful and continue their educational career. I think this is something that is very, very important and needs to heard around the world! Parents and students often think that skipping a few days of school is acceptable, especially in the younger grades, but that is absolutely not true. Every single day attending school helps students build up the skills they need to continue onto the next lesson, to continue onto the next grade, and to continue on in life. By getting all of the necessary skills they need, the students will show exemplary work that they did on their
While reading The Common Core: Insights into the K-5 Standards by Maureen McLaughlin and Brenda J. Overturf (2012) I identified a few main ideas. The first main idea I came across was that the Common …show more content…
In this article, a key idea that I read about was how integrating technology into the classroom is sometimes put on pause because of the teacher’s knowledge and experience with technology, pedagogy, and content (TPAC). The world is constantly changing and that is including technology. It is a teacher’s responsibility to change and grow with these changes that can be so important to student’s lives and help them to better their future and education. Technology is a complicated thing, but integrating it into the classroom betters the students because they are learning in a more fun and engaging way, rather than reading word-for-word from a textbook. Integrating technology into the classroom could start at watching a simple video clip about a topic or go all the way to doing a whole unit straight from computers and tablets. I think it is important for the teacher to adapt to the changing world of technology because it offers a wide variety of new ways to teach. As the article suggests, teachers who struggle with technology can pick an easy starting point and learn from there. Incorporating any bit of technology into the classroom will help educate the students in a new way and keep them …show more content…
These basic skills that are need for the students to succeed need to begin somewhere, the students do not just pick them up randomly. Elementary school is the primary beginning where students develop the necessary skills needed in order to be successful and continue their educational career. I think this is something that is very, very important and needs to heard around the world! Parents and students often think that skipping a few days of school is acceptable, especially in the younger grades, but that is absolutely not true. Every single day attending school helps students build up the skills they need to continue onto the next lesson, to continue onto the next grade, and to continue on in life. By getting all of the necessary skills they need, the students will show exemplary work that they did on their