The Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts Instruction in Grades 6-12

         The Common Core State Standards is an act established by states to set general goals for a students learning to help guide them through K through 12. As future teachers, your primary goal should be helping students reach their full potential. To do so, teachers look to the Common Core State Standards. It is said that you must “adopt your school’s curriculum mandates tied to the Common Core State Standards”. As important as that is, this quote is followed by the choice of developing your own ways of teaching into the framework of what's mandatory, Common Core State Standards.

The Common Core State Standards are somewhat guidelines into teaching, for you should adopt status quo spaces and curriculum while at the same time adopt your own way of teaching or experimenting new ways of teaching. This includes determining what is read, written, taught; as well as what ideas and topics that will be covered in the classroom. The Common Core State Standards are very important, do not get me wrong. As a new teacher I would need help in deciding the perfect curriculum for future students, yet putting in my own opinion of subjects that I am vastly passionate about would change a students mind frame and would be excited as me.


What is best about learning how to use the proper curriculum is that you can bring in another teacher for guidance. Two heads are better than one when it comes to using the Common Core State Standards for your students. Not every curriculum can work with a student, or classroom, that is why bouncing off ideas from other teachers is best. One method to teach state standards might not be best suited in your teaching style, but it may work for someone else. Bouncing off ideas is a great way to understand your peers ways of teaching, and also to help find yourself teaching in the best manner. First year teachers have it the toughest, and learning multiple  ways to teach the Common Core State Standards is highly encouraged. 

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