The other thing I just learned is they're trying to teach perseverance. Sounds good, right? Well, what this translated to in my ds kindergarten class is redrawing and redrawing a picture- being told its not non- fiction enough (tracing with pencil, outline with black marker, erase pencil, and color in with color pencil). If its not 100% accurate, redo. I'm thinking this isn't a great idea for ds who already has perfectionist traits. Not to mention, they're only in kindergarten. What are other thoughts?
I don't think that method is in the common core per se-- it sounds to me like a poor (terrible, really) implementation of the common core.
Districts have a lot of leeway about how they teach the common core skills, what curriculum they choose, and how they train teachers to teach to the new standards. That means that teaching isn't going to be standard by any means, only that everyone is now trying to reach the same targets.
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