Is Common Core Necessary?
Who needs Common Core? All students who are interested in furthering their education. Common Core teaches students how to be prepared for advances in educational atmosphere. By using technology, it enhances the students’ knowledge on how to become more independent and less dependent on help from teachers. It is the students’ decision whether they would want to be successful in the classrooms. Student has to be dedicated to furthering their education. Common Core does prepare our students’ for college because it shows their academic performance for improvement, prepares them for the technology-based world, and predicts whether the child is ready for college.
To begin with, Common Core can improve the students’ …show more content…
It prepares student for college based online exams. As the students’ increase grade level, it gives them knowledge on how to use the computer for different research. It shows the students’ which type of source information is qualified. Students will have to become more independent in the classrooms, if they work by themselves. Instead of having assistance or peers, the student will have to really know how to figure out the answers and why they chose that answer. Also, students will learn how to do more technology-based hands on activities. If a student is at the computer taking a Common Core test, then they will have limited amount of help assisted. This will really make students think outside the box. Students will then have developed ways of how to answer questions they may not understand. For instance, a student does not understand how to find main ideas. A student can research various amount of sources to tutor them on how to find main ideas. Michelle Exstrom and Dan Thatcher mentions, “College administrators, parents and teachers have clamored for better instruments to measure whether students are ready to succeed in today’s world. Next-generation assessments, as they are called, seek to do just that: measure students’ mastery of core academic content as well as their ability to communicate, reason, analyze and synthesize data, make complex inferences, and develop strategies to solve complex problems’’ (Exstrom and Thatcher 24). Technology advancements have improved by a lot so it will be less likely results will be skewed. Therefore, if students’ knowledge in technology increases then test scores will
Who needs Common Core? All students who are interested in furthering their education. Common Core teaches students how to be prepared for advances in educational atmosphere. By using technology, it enhances the students’ knowledge on how to become more independent and less dependent on help from teachers. It is the students’ decision whether they would want to be successful in the classrooms. Student has to be dedicated to furthering their education. Common Core does prepare our students’ for college because it shows their academic performance for improvement, prepares them for the technology-based world, and predicts whether the child is ready for college.
To begin with, Common Core can improve the students’ …show more content…
It prepares student for college based online exams. As the students’ increase grade level, it gives them knowledge on how to use the computer for different research. It shows the students’ which type of source information is qualified. Students will have to become more independent in the classrooms, if they work by themselves. Instead of having assistance or peers, the student will have to really know how to figure out the answers and why they chose that answer. Also, students will learn how to do more technology-based hands on activities. If a student is at the computer taking a Common Core test, then they will have limited amount of help assisted. This will really make students think outside the box. Students will then have developed ways of how to answer questions they may not understand. For instance, a student does not understand how to find main ideas. A student can research various amount of sources to tutor them on how to find main ideas. Michelle Exstrom and Dan Thatcher mentions, “College administrators, parents and teachers have clamored for better instruments to measure whether students are ready to succeed in today’s world. Next-generation assessments, as they are called, seek to do just that: measure students’ mastery of core academic content as well as their ability to communicate, reason, analyze and synthesize data, make complex inferences, and develop strategies to solve complex problems’’ (Exstrom and Thatcher 24). Technology advancements have improved by a lot so it will be less likely results will be skewed. Therefore, if students’ knowledge in technology increases then test scores will