Common Core Standards for Elementary Schools!

Hi Everyone!

After watching the video on common core standards for elementary schools, I would have to say that I am an advocate of them.  Common Core Standards are a set of standards that, “provide a consistent, clear understanding of what students are expected to learn, so teachers and parents know what they need to do to help them” (www.corestandards.org).  Therefore, all across America, students in elementary schools are learning the same things.  This is how it should be in my opinion.  

There are numerous advantages to this system.  Since the curriculum is the same everywhere, teachers from all across the nation have the ability to communicate and collaborate with one other in order to discover the best ways on how to implement these requirements.  It also makes for an easy transition for teachers, students, and parents, if they happen to switch schools.  Without common core standards, they would have to relearn what is required of them, if they were to move or switch schools for any reason.  Also, teachers of course could not collaborate with one other across the nation about what they are doing because the standards would be different, and thus, collaborating wouldn’t be very beneficial.  Therefore, Common Core Standards have the potential to open a whole new world of educating and learning!

A road block to this movement is that it’s going to take a lot of time, money, and support to implement.  It will be a huge task just making sure that every teacher across America is on board with it and would want to make the change.  Not only that, but there has to be some sort of follow through to make sure that every teacher is actually implementing it.  It will probably be a huge challenge because it’s more than likely that some teachers are “set in their ways,” and won’t want to make the change.

After learning more about Common Core Standards, I really do think that this movement can bring a lot of value into the educational system.  I would definitely like to implement it in my classroom when I become a teacher.  I am excited to see what the future holds!

-Madison

Resources I used include: 

Elementary School CCS: http://youtu.be/1IPxt794-yU

www.corestandards.org