What I'm wondering is, what is your district doing for the new curriculum maps? The only two sets I have seen are the ones on common core.org, which is content heavy, and the ones from this company, which focus only on skills. Can't there be a happy medium? What is your district doing?
I had the fortune of spending the last two days with a consulting firm for our school administration. They were hired to come in and teach us how to "succeed" in education. They brought with them, along with many insults, a set of curriculum maps for the common core standards. One thing I noticed about the maps this company put out was that they cut any and all joy out of learning. For the ELA maps, they cut out reading anything longer than a paragraph (a paragraph is all that is needed for comprehension!), discussions were rendered unimportant (despite all of the common core standards related to this concept) and a great emphasis was placed on drilling basic skills. With this company, teachers were the enemy. I believe that their help, in no time, we could go from being a wonderful environment for students AND staff to an antagonistic fractured district. Judging from the morale of the faculty after these two days, I'm not the only one who felt this way.
What I'm wondering is, what is your district doing for the new curriculum maps? The only two sets I have seen are the ones on common core.org, which is content heavy, and the ones from this company, which focus only on skills. Can't there be a happy medium? What is your district doing?
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