The Common Core On the ground, running
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The Common Core On the ground, running Aviva Bower Department of School and Educational Psychology
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The Common Core On the ground, running. Aviva Bower Department of School and Educational Psychology. Who created the CCSS?. For profit organizations Little input from educators Little input from families and teachers - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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The Common Core
On the ground, running
Aviva Bower Department of School and Educational Psychology
Who created the CCSS?• For profit organizations• Little input from educators• Little input from families and teachers• Those who will benefit financially from the tests,
textbooks, and the curricular materials and “coaching” associated with the CCSS
However, good teachers who consider students’ emotional needs, cognitive abilities, and social development will always find a way to transform an inappropriate curriculum,but when the curriculum is tied to high-stakes testing, teachers take that scripted curriculum and subject children towhat I am calling “the literacy of obedience.”
Developmentally Inappropriate:A lack of interaction, movement, and concrete
experiences
Developmentally Inappropriate:A lack of transactional reading and writing experiences
“As y
ou grow up in th
is world
you
realize th
at people re
ally don’t give
a shit a
bout what y
ou feel o
r what
you think . .
. .” (
David Coleman,
archite
ct of th
e CCSS)
Developmentally Inappropriate:Science as vocabulary
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Children and teachers suffer as testing dictates teachers’ pedagogical and curricular decisions
