Teachers Navigation Of The Common Core State Standards

Download or read book Teachers' Navigation of the Common Core State Standards written by Jean Kaya and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Implementation of previous U.S. standards-based education initiatives has been challenging due to, among other issues, the lack of common and consistent meaning of 'proficiency' among states. Implementing new education standards for educators means undertaking actions to understand the skills to be taught, develop curriculum, make curriculum more accessible to students, and effectively assess the skills being taught. This single-site qualitative collective case study investigated how three secondary in-service teachers and one secondary student teacher navigated implementation of the Common Core State Standards in a Midwestern rural secondary school. The study is grounded in Hall, Wallace, and Dossett's (1973) Concerns-Based Adoption Model that I use in the context of the Common Core State Standards educational reform. The teachers' shared experiences demonstrated their stages of concern with the Common Core initiative, their levels of use of the standards, and their configurations of the Common Core. Findings indicate that implementation of education initiatives is a complex process which is dependent upon multiple components. Teachers described their perceptions of the Common Core State Standards and how they adapted and implemented the standards in their context. The findings of the current study have far-reaching implications for people concerned with or interested in the U.S. K-12 education system such as school principals, other education administrators and leaders, classroom teachers, researchers, and policymakers.