“It’s like we’re trying to fly an airplane while we’re building it.”
–Board of Elementary and Secondary Education member Lottie Beebe (R-Breaux Bridge), often at odds with Gov. Bobby Jindal and State Superintendent of Education John White on issues involving public education, on hearing that English Language and math teacher training for the Common Core Standards (adopted by 48 states) by local school boards has been re-scheduled for a second time because parishes did not receive expected training from the Department of Education. The local training, originally scheduled for June, was re-set for July and now has been postponed once again.
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Training! There people go again with their “gimme gimme gimme” attitude. What do they think state government’s here to do? Provide services to people? Pleeeeeeez.
The DOE is so busy implementing Jindal’s corporate control of public schools it hasn’t enough time to take care of business. Although many prominent educators argue that Common Core Standards are just another cog in the corporate education wheel and shouldn’t be implemented.
Corporate interests behind charters and education “reform”: ALEC; Teach For America; Pearson (North America & International) and others, have joined together to profiteer from educational reform across the US and globally. Paul Vallas went from destroying NO schools (and the teachers’ union) to implementing corporate controls in other US cities and Chile which recently experienced a 20,000 student protest due to his excesses.
Vallas, Pastorek, John White and other poster boys are passed around like syphilitic whores from district to district, state to state and country to country. School systems are infected, destroyed and the locusts move on.
Common Core standards are the largest change to teaching in history. The standards focus on acquisition and measurement instead of learning, understanding and applying knowledge. Math, science and writing are emphasized at the expense of the arts.
Pearson, the behemoth of publishing, testing and assessments for teachers and students, is expecting to profit up to $8 BILLION from publishing new books, standardized tests and assessments. School systems will have to purchase all those when Common Core standards are implemented. Keep changing the rules and someone gets to reap the profits. Pearson is also gobbling up “virtual schools” where no interaction with an actual teacher is required.
I’m somewhat confused by the quote as I am a classroom teacher who was recently trained in common core math which is what is being implemented for first grade next year. Only K & 1st are this year. They are rolling in the other grades next year. The comprehensive curriculum reflects the new common core for math and if a teacher had taught the previous comprehensive curriculum it’s the same idea. It would be nice to have more time to prepare (resources/materials) since school starts in 2 weeks! I have yet to be trained on the evaluation portion or how to write SLTs. Teachers are used to having to fly by the seat of our pants and doing the best we can. This is no different.
Reblogged this on Robert Mann.