News Brief

10/21/12

New Common Core Standards to Reshape Teaching

LJWorld.com (10/21/12) Hancock, Peter

The implementation of the Common Core State Standards in Kansas by 2014 has teachers scrambling to prepare for educational changes in reading and math. Emily Seaman, a fourth-grade teacher at Hillcrest School, is just one of several teachers who have engaged in special training sessions on the new standards; teachers at all grade levels and throughout the school districts are receiving training through weekly district collaborations. Training is expected to continue for the next 18 months as implementation increases. Seaman says discussions are being held on reading and re-reading and how instructional techniques in math and reading can be incorporated into other subjects. Kansas is one of 44 states, the District of Columbia, and three U.S. territories that have approved the standards created by the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers. The state plans to have new tests ready and in line with the standards, though its decision on whether to use the tests developed by a consortium of states or from outside groups will occur in 2013.

 

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