DUNCAN —
Eleven Duncan educators took on New York and found themselves challenged to learn.
The group, which included Superintendent Sherry Labyer, Assistant Superintendent Glenda Cobb, Curriculum Director Allison Lovett, a few principals and several teachers, attended a training workshop to learn more about Common Core Standards. Common Core will replace PASS Objectives as the state and school district learning standard.
“It was amazing,” Cobb said. “We spent the week being challenged to think differently about math instruction and how students learn.”
Common Core is more student driven. It aims to challenge students to rationalize their answers on assignments.
To learn how to better drive students through Common Core, the educators were divided among four teaching groups or grade levels. These groups ranged from kindergarten to second grade, third grade to fifth grade, middle school and high school. They spent three days doing classroom training.
In these groups, the teachers were introduced to various math problems at their grade levels. They had to find ways to solve them, while explaining how they reached that conclusion.
“It was probably one of the best conferences I’ve been to because I was challenged to think,” Cobb said.
Aside from the individual groups, the educators also sat through several presentations from individuals who are trained in teaching Common Core Standards.
Lovett, who recently started her position as district curriculum director, said the speakers presented Common Core as being more than a change in teaching style. She said it explores a variety of learning styles, too.
“A lot of what they talked about is how kids can come to the answers in a different way,” Lovett said. “It’s amazing how many ways you could come up with to get the same answer.”
Lovett could feel a positive impact from Common Core and is excited to see how the new standards work in Duncan schools. She said the best part of the conference was getting to work in groups to explore what Common Core has to offer.
“We had to take the whole picture and work together,” Lovett said.
Cobb said the conference won’t only benefit the teachers and administrators who attended the conference.
She said each person who went to the conference will train their peers so they become just as familiar with Common Core.
“We will pass the information along,” Cobb said.
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