Comments on: Bad Timing http://blog.commoncore.org/2009/07/23/bad-timing/ Promoting a full core curriculum. Sat, 31 Dec 2011 04:01:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Darcy Pattison http://blog.commoncore.org/2009/07/23/bad-timing/#comment-6317 Darcy Pattison Fri, 24 Jul 2009 15:24:31 +0000 http://blog.commoncore.org/?p=98#comment-6317 While you may want "clear guidance and examples of the kind of novels, non-fiction works, poems, and plays that students should read.", there is a right and a wrong way to do this. Wrong: Include these in the standards with phrases "such as," "e.g.", or "suggested readings including." These muddy the standards and render them confusing, at best. Are these "suggested" items merely suggested or required? In practice, educators tend to take them as givens. Right: Attach ancillary documents with suggestions. Darcy Pattison While you may want “clear guidance and examples of the kind of novels, non-fiction works, poems, and plays that students should read.”, there is a right and a wrong way to do this.

Wrong: Include these in the standards with phrases “such as,” “e.g.”, or “suggested readings including.” These muddy the standards and render them confusing, at best. Are these “suggested” items merely suggested or required? In practice, educators tend to take them as givens.

Right: Attach ancillary documents with suggestions.

Darcy Pattison

]]> By: Common standards: Where’s the content? at Joanne Jacobs http://blog.commoncore.org/2009/07/23/bad-timing/#comment-6291 Common standards: Where’s the content? at Joanne Jacobs Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:48:24 +0000 http://blog.commoncore.org/?p=98#comment-6291 [...] standards are a first draft that can be revised and improved, writes Common Core’s Lynne Munson. She hopes for [...] [...] standards are a first draft that can be revised and improved, writes Common Core’s Lynne Munson. She hopes for [...]

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