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RE: Common Core
Posted:
Sep 26, 2011 9:03 AM
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Due to the ongoing debates on here with conflicting information (some of it supports and some of it conflicts with information we were given at our Network Team Institute), I sent an email to the EnageNY Team encouraging them to put out some sort of statement to help clear things up, even if it is to acknowledge what things have not been decided upon yet. Let's hope that they do that. So far, it has been my experience with them that they are not holding back information from us. They generally have been happy to share anything that they know at the time you ask.
Here's hoping,
Dianne
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From: owner-nyshsmath@mathforum.org [mailto:owner-nyshsmath@mathforum.org] On Behalf Of Evan Romer
Sent: Monday, September 26, 2011 12:33 AM
To: nyshsmath@mathforum.org
Subject: Re: Common Core
If you're referring to "Appendix A - Common Core Standards for Math:
Designing High School Math Courses," that's a national CCSS document (not a NY document), giving two possible breakdowns for HS courses:
the "traditional" pathway and the "integrated" pathway. How HY will implement this has yet to be determined. NY has chosen (tentatively?
definitely?) the "traditional" pathway in concept, but does not plan to follow Appendix A in its specifics.
As far as I know, the most recent information we have about the HS course breakdown for NY are the drafts that have been mentioned in previous posts, but those are drafts:
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> http://www.jmap.org/JMAP/SupportFiles/NYS-NYCDOEDocuments/Math/Perform
> ance_Indicators/IntegratedAlgebraCCSS.pdf
> http://www.jmap.org/JMAP/SupportFiles/NYS-NYCDOEDocuments/Math/Perform
> ance_Indicators/GeometryCCSS.pdf
> http://www.jmap.org/JMAP/SupportFiles/NYS-NYCDOEDocuments/Math/Perform
> ance_Indicators/GeometryCCSS.pdf
>
If I'm wrong about any of this, someone please correct me. I've been learning a lot from this discussion the last few days.
Evan Romer
Susquehanna Valley HS
Conklin NY
On Sep 25, 2011, at 8:22AM, rfortuna@cgcsd.org wrote:
> There is an Appendix A to the CCLS for math that breaks it down by
> course. You can find it by doing a search on the engageny website.
> Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
>
> - -----Original Message-----
> From: Nick B <nbiancul@ic.sunysb.edu>
> Sender: owner-nyshsmath@mathforum.org
> Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2011 10:52:41
> To: <nyshsmath@mathforum.org>
> Reply-To: nyshsmath@mathforum.org
> Subject: Re: Common Core
>
> I've run through all of the documentation both from the Common Core
> and from New York State on engageny.org and the important question of
> what we're teaching in which course is very much unanswered. The
> documentation has all of high school math laid out by overarching
> topic and not by course. The only documentation I can find by course
> are those documents kindly posted by www.jmap.org, and that
> documentation is a draft with lots of cross outs and ambiguities.
> If I am not looking in the right spot on the engaging website, please
> point me in the right direction :)
>
> While I believe in the Common Core, it will only be successful in New
> York if teachers know what they are responsible for teaching in each
> course. The current documentation is inexcusably nebulous and quite
> unhelpful in deciding the direction of our year-to-year curricula.
>
> The other concern I have with the Common Core is that it seems as
> though it is being phased in all at once. I would argue that kids
> coming from the eighth grade into the new algebra course as outlined
> by the JMAP documents are in for a rude awakening in terms of what
> they are being asked to do and understand. This is why it is critical
> that NYSED do a lot more than it has done in terms of getting
> districts and teachers ready for the Core.
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