Common Core Needs a New Learning Corps!
"There may not be any curriculum that every learner needs to know, but there surely are many curriculums that most need learners to know."
There's lots of talk out there in Web 2+ land these days about learning standards, standardized testing, common core curriculums, even having teachers read scripts to students to assure that all learners are hearing the same thing. Madness abounds! Who even knows when the kids are listening to anything the teacher says.
A teacher's curriculum delivery plate is far too full these days, not just with standards, but with all the other cultural, social, political, and local necessities that constitute what are children are expected to know. Well, at least expect to be tested on. For more on this topic, read Jamie Vollmer' List:http://www.jamievollmer.com/list.html
It's my intent in this blog to tilt a different windmill. Pancho, hand me my Quixotian lance. What do our students