What are your concerns about the Common Core Standards? What ah-ha did you have about CCS? What will you continue to do or do differently to ensure that you are teaching to the CCS?
I think my biggest concern with the common core standards is the readiness of my students to engage with these more rigorous expectations. My district is using the common core aligned Eureka Math curriculum, and a lot of it assumes prior knowledge that was taught in previous Eureka Math courses. I worry that my students will not be ready for the challenges that they might face with these sudden changes. One thing that I have been doing and will continue to do is scaffolding certain lessons and reviewing what is considered previous knowledge for each lesson. I do not want to take the rigor out of the curriculum, nor do I want to skip any standards, but at the same time I need to make sure that my students have the basic skills that they were expected to have learned in previous years. Therefore, I do alter some of the common core aligned lessons and add things in to make sure I am reviewing while also introducing the new material. I add in some basic skills work to scaffold them up to the more challenging and critical thinking questions.
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