Do we really need Modules? Common core is the set of standards that the government has decided that schools in the United States should follow. Using this system, everyone across the U.S. is learning the same things within the same time period. This way a 6th grader in the middle of nowhere Colorado is learning and meeting the same criteria as a 6th grader in a prep school in California. The standards are being used in forty-three of the fifty states and all of the U.S. territories except Puerto Rico (NEA). These standards have been adopted in New York State and used to create New York States Curricular Modules. The modules are a series of lesson plans for each subject that is scripted for the teachers to use. Not all school districts are required to use these modules, but the ones that do are given extra state funding. While common core standards are practical to initiate in school systems, the modules are …show more content…
What do they go to college for, if they are only going to be reading a script prepared by others? Why do they need masters’ degrees or any degrees at all? I started volunteering after my first year of college, I had only been in one education class and it was an introductory level course. Still to this day I have yet to actually teach a lesson to students, only observe. But, I have stood in front of a class and taught a module. It was a history lesson and it was easy to teach. Everything was scripted; what the teachers say, how the students are expected to reply, when to define words, when to go on a tangent about something, what to ask to evaluate their knowledge and even how they should answer. The lesson plans are written as a script with T for teacher and S for student as shown here:
T: (Show the 6 dot card.) Raise your hand when you know how many dots. (Wait for all hands to be raised, then signal.) Ready?
S: 6