Common Core Standards

The Common Core Standards hold so much more than I thought they could. They cover information from citing information to analysis and that is only with the reading. I picked 8^th grade standards to look at because I am considering high school along with middle school and 8^th grade is close to high school. I looked at a couple different standards within the 8^th grade standards and I found it very interesting that they give key ideas and details that you should be focusing on but then give you information that shows you how it corresponds with college and career readiness. It is important to instill in our students that the skills that we are teaching them will be used later in life and that we are not just giving them information that we want them to have. It is important to understand how you will use these skills later in life.

When we get to college or career we need to know these skills and some people get to college and they are not sure of how to cite or find the key ideas and details. These are skills that then have to be taught to the new college students. We need to get these skills taught to the kids so that they can excel when they get into college or if they want to just go straight into a job. When we read we need to understand the meanings of what we are reading. Even if it is just a book we are reading for fun or if we are reading a training book we have to be able to understand and apply what we read to our real lives. I think that the Common Core Standards are giving teachers an outline of what should be taught and asking teachers to build off this and help their students to learn more.