| I’ll be honest. The documents associated with the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) continue to make my head throb and my eyes glaze over. These documents are a wonderful resource; they’re just very intense! I’m curious. How have CCSS affected your math curriculum so far this year?Are you using different terms with your students?
Are you using different teaching resources? Are you presenting math skills in a new order? For those of you teaching preschool, are you hearing any CCSS chatter? Ready to listen, |
Living in Texas, We don’t do Common Core, but Texas did update their TEKS and we are already having to push the students above and beyond what we did last year!
In Michigan we have preschool standards but of course we are expected to have our kiddos ready for kindergarten that does have the core. I do more math with the kiddos a well as science and literacy then in the past.
In Louisiana pre-k-1st is using it and the upper grades are using it in transitional mode along with our GLE’s (grade level expectations). No one has gotten official training on it, so I know how you feel. We have the handouts that show the new standards and if it correlates to our old GLE’s. They got rid of a few things and added more to others. It seems to be about the same, but like you said, they want us to push them farther and teach/add more. As for different terms in math, I know there are new ones just haven’t come across them. We are working together as grade level to try to figure it out!
In Texas, prekindergarten has Guidelines, not Common Core. I love our guidelines, though, and the curriculum we use aligns perfectly with the Texas Guidelines. 🙂
We don’t have the core at our school – we do have prek standards though. I find it challenging to hit all we need to hit with only having the kids three days a week. We pull alot of double duty with skills and sneak them in everywhere. If it isn’t fun then it isnt worth doing.