Trying to achieve the Common Core's English
language arts standards while teaching primary school pupils in Spanish in an English - speaking country is insane.
Not exact matches
While subject - area knowledge is privileged in the
standards — INTASC has developed specific
standards for science, mathematics, English
language arts, and special education, and will soon release those for the elementary - school level, social studies, and foreign
language — the
standards also make clear that knowledge of child development, learning theory, and teaching approaches is essential.
Common Core: In the Education Next public opinion poll, 49 percent of U.S. adults said they support the Common Core State
Standards; in the other poll, conducted by PDK / Gallup, 24 percent of adults share that view,
while more than half said they oppose the common
standards for English
language arts and mathematics adopted by most states.
In LA County in English
language arts, 39 percent of Latinos met or exceeded state
standards,
while 68 percent of white students did — making a gap of 29 percentage points.
And
while science and history are not part of the Common Core, the
language arts and math
standards will influence how they are taught.
To be fair, Gary,
while the main Common Core group may only be developing math and english
language arts standards, I have on my desk a document with the Long Beach Unified School District logo a document that alleges to be «Common Core State
Standards K - 12 Technology Skills Scope and Sequence.»
Many history / social studies teachers,
while feeling validated by the new English
language arts standards, also feel frustrated by the volume of history content they must get through each year.
One emerging theme from these discussions has been the challenges experienced by educators due to the uncertainty of the state's assessments in English
language arts (ELA) and math and the impact of administering the existing TCAP exams
while meeting the current ELA and math academic
standards.
There are many reasons for the lower scores: the new
standards being taught changed and are being implemented unevenly across school districts (Warren and Murphy 2014; McLaughlin, Glaab and Carrasco 2014, Harrington 2016); the definition of having met the
standards changed; and the testing method changed (London and Warren 2015).1
While it is true that these assessments are in many ways not comparable (indeed, legislation passed in 2013 prohibits the CDE and local education agencies from doing so), 2 it is useful to understand which districts and schools are doing consistently well on both tests, and whether districts doing well on the SBAC English
language arts (ELA) also do well on the SBAC math.
Findings drawn from the American Teacher Panel show that
while a majority of U.S. mathematics and English
language arts teachers support the use of state
standards in instruction, a majority do not support the use of current state tests to measure mastery of those
standards.
While the Common Core is only in math and English
language arts, the English
language arts standards do address what kinds of writing and reading students should be assigned in history and science classes.