Common Core State Standards --
Ready or Not, Here It Comes!
Most states have now adopted the new Common Core State Standards. Florida is among them. I, for one, am excited about the new standards. I have attended conferences and trainings about them over the past year and a half or so and believe they will enable teachers to once again rely more on their own expertise rather than a scripted basal reader. After attending a state conference in Ft. Lauderdale in June of 2012 with my principal and two other teachers, my position in my school was changed from a third grade teacher to the Professional Development Resource Teacher. My primary responsibilities were to assist teachers as they made the transition from the NGSSS to the CCSS and to deliver appropriate professional development sessions to augment those efforts.
Therefore, it pleased me to see the article on edweek.org. The state department of education in Tennessee has selected 704 teachers to be trained in depth in the Common Core State Standards and to then train the other 30,000 teachers in Tennessee. The hope is that there will be greater teacher buy-in when other teachers are leading the way in the trainings. The session will consist of five weeks of summer training led by teacher-coaches. There are no other states mentioned in the article that are planning on such a comprehensive training. Maybe it should be considered.
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