Response to Core Standards...


Before becoming involved in the classroom and the Education Program, I was not a fan of state standards. I felt as if I was a machine in a factory that was being perfected to become “prepared for the real world.” Though I thought that becoming part of the real world was important, I felt that I was only to adhere to such standards and that felt boring and cold to me. I felt like the real world isn’t made up of state standards, so why should school be made up of it? However, now that I am pretty far involved within the Education Department, I now see the necessity for such standards. They are needed to hold not only teachers accountable, but students as well. On the other hand, I do think that there needs to be an improvement in how the standards are introduced to students. Teachers need to be able to incorporate these standards into their lessons, while also keeping their students engaged.
When looking over the standards on the core standards website, I immediately looked at the writing standards tab. I was interested to see what standards I could use in both my English classes and my Social Studies classes, thus being able to include a lot of writing in my classes. The standard CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.1.C essentially states that students should be able to clarify relationships between arguments and argue their position. I absolutely agree with this, and would argue that this standards could be upheld in not only English focused classrooms, but also in Social Study and History classrooms. This is a prime opportunity for Social Studies and English teachers to team up and knock out standards together. This is a prime example of when two (or more) heads are better than one.
When looking over these standards I also looked over some of the Social Studies standards. A lot of the standards were like the English ones. This reminded me of combined classrooms or project based classrooms where more than one subject is being taught. I think that this would benefit students in seeing that school isn’t linear and neither is life. All the subjects interlink with one another.

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