![]() Soooo, in 2009, the National Governors Association set out to develop the Common Core Standards. ![]() The report also said that the diploma itself lost its value because graduates could not compete successfully beyond high school, and that the solution to this problem is a common set of rigorous standards. The report explained that the major problem currently facing the American school system is that high school graduates were not provided with the skills and knowledge they needed to succeed in college and careers. In 2004, a report titled Ready or Not: Creating a High School Diploma That Counts, found that both employers and colleges are demanding more of high school graduates than in the past. So the rules don’t apply to me.” However, if you accepted a job in education, you essentially are accepting to play by their rules. Sometimes there is this temptation to think, “Well, I’m not a teacher. Speech Language Pathologists? Yep, everyone includes everyone working in education today. Who needs to to know about the current standards?Įveryone. the imposition of high-stakes tests to check this acquisition.an emphasis on criterion-referenced assessments which are aligned to these frameworks, and.curriculum frameworks which outline specific knowledge or skills which students must acquire,.These standards outline what students need to know, understand and be able to do.Ĭomponents of standard-based education includes: ![]() Moving away from norm-reference testing, a standards-based education focuses instead on measurable standards for all students. My hope is that this post will give some insight writing standards-based IEPs, because this is something we are all required to do.Īcademic standards had their beginnings in the 1980s education reform. I don’t even pretend to be! This post has taken me about a month to write (mainly because I start working on it and then get distracted working on another project) but I’ve also been doing a lot of research in this area. Now, I am in no way an expert on all things Common Core. Because I make Common Core products, I am often asked questions on how to incorporate them into what we do. ![]()
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