Our next professional development inservice will be on the Iowa Core Curriculum (ICC). In an effort to better address our staff in regard to our collective knowledge base concerning the ICC, please respond (in groups of 2 or 3) to the following via this blog:
- List your group.
- Briefly summarize what the ICC is (limit to 1 paragraph).
- Pose 2 questions that you have about the ICC (no duplicates, read what others are posting first).
Merrill Clausen and Jennifer Junk in a group.
ReplyDeleteIowa Core shows teachers and parents what children should be learning in school. It provides standards that all Iowa students should be working on. All students, in all types of communities should be receiving meaningful learning. It is a way to support high levels of thinking.
2 Questions:
Will Iowa core truly address the very young children?
How closely will ICC correlate with the Iowa Early Learning standards?
Rosemary Sievers and Michelle Hoffmann
ReplyDeleteICC will make sure that all students in the state of Iowa will be taught the same skills and content no matter what the size of the school or location.
Question 1: Will the ICC regulate what will be taught in each level and what each student is to master before they move on to another level?
Question 2: When will all of this be implemented?
Connie Schroeder, Joan Greve, and Renee Bowman in a group.
ReplyDeleteICC is the curriculum that the entire state of Iowa will be using to teach. It is our understanding that it is more student-centered than teacher-driven. We believe we'll be implementing it in the next few years. We feel that we are already doing some things that will fit into the curriculum, but we know we will need to do even more.
1. How will we pay for training, supplies, materials for more hands-on learning?
2. How will we evaluate student progress and report to parents and the state (report card, checklist--will these be standard or different from district to district)?
Laurel Gruhn, Jean Grager, Luda Lyashenko
ReplyDeleteICC is asking all school districts to evaluate current teaching methods and assessment, then to refocus instead on the essential skills and concepts needed. On a deeper level, learning will be "robust and relevant", meaning probing, interesting, and collaborative. Teacher roles will change a great deal in the classroom.
1. How will community realistically be involved in ICC?
2. It says ICC is a "tool" for Iowa educators to use. Will that be a book, binder, checklist, inservice, part of teacher evaluation, easy, complicated? That part is very vague at this time...
Heather Ries, Jennifer Schoenherr, Laura Johnson, Julie Miller
ReplyDeleteICC is a student centered curriculum with emphasis on hands learning to prepare our students for the transition into the changing global world.
1. How does this affect identified special education students?
2. What will teachers be required to do to prepare for the implementation of the ICC?
Trisha Shannon and Deb Pataska
ReplyDeleteThe ICC is a guide that identifies essential concepts and skill for K-12 in literacy, math, science, social studies, and 21st century skills. It includes effective teaching stategies and assessments to challenge and fully engage students. It is a tool that makes sure essential topics/concepts are being taught and learned.
Are there specific textbooks required by ICC?
Is this a trend that is here to stay or will it fade out as other theories and practices have in the past?
Carol Haferbier and Angie Marburger
ReplyDeleteICC is a state initiative aimed at teaching students at all levels essential literacies including financial and technological literacy. The goal is to prepare students with necessary skills and knowledge for their life outside of school in the 21st century. This curriculum emphasizes application and higher order thinking skills.
Questions:
1. How will ICC change the traditional "vocational" classes such as FCS?
2. How will this be adapted or modified for special education students, especially lower functioning?
Anton Green and Sherri Petersen
ReplyDeleteIowa Core Curriculum is Iowa's attempt to standardize education.
Questions: If something is not broken....why fix it? What is wrong with Iowa's education system? What are we fixing?
Ms. Bailey, Mrs. Meisner, Mr. Meisner:
ReplyDeleteWe see the ICC as an attempt by the state of Iowa to ensure that all districts are teaching and measuring the same standards and criteria in individual disciplines.
Question#1:
Is this a program that appears to be something that will be around for a long time and how many states currently use this idea?
Haferbier and Marburger
ReplyDeleteI left out what I consider an essential element of formative assessment driving instruction.
Jerry Creger and Laura Horst (Jerry talking, Laura typing and smiling.)
ReplyDeleteICC is an innovative method of instruction based on very specific quidelines mandated by the state to enable our students to enter the 21st Century with a modicum of success.
1. Will curriculum content be mandated by the state? Will the seventh grade band be required to play Beethoven's Ninth symphony?
2. How will NCLB be impacted by these measures? Will it help schools get off the watch list or merely be an extra requirement for all to fulfill?
Sorry, a day late and a dollar short. Just me in my group. ICC is way of making sure all Iowa students have the skills they need by graduation. Consistency is the key. Iowa has always been proud of its record of individual curriculums, but I feel that state guidelines would have made it easier to focus on what is important.
ReplyDeleteQuestions: Where will creativity and lifelong learning skills fall into this curriculum?
Will the next step be state tests to graduate?
Renee F.
ReplyDeleteICC is to ensure all students are learning necessary employabiity skills, tech literacy, health literacy, financial literacy, and civic literacy skills in order to compete in a global and ever-changing world.
Question 1
ReplyDeleteWhat is the role of the school counselor?
Question 2
Are there other states doing something similar?
The ICC is an attempt to standardize what is being taught and what students should learn. It will, for example, make 2nd year algebra courses look similar with the same things being taught. Yet, it still allows freedom for different methods of instruction.
ReplyDeleteQ1 How does possible increase in content/and or rigor fit in with NCLB? How does spec ed /resource room fit in with this?
Q2 Is this a result of poor scores in Iowa? Are we falling behind other states?
ICC emphasizes employability skills so students can transition to workers. The integration of skills different curriculum areas will allow students to become effective workers.
ReplyDelete1. Will this tie-in with the Perkins requirements for tech prep?
2. How will the skills be evaluated.
D Jenkins, H Housenga
ReplyDeleteICC is the curriculum that the state of Iowa will best prepare our students to succeed in the ever changing world.
When will we have staff training with people other than our ICC leadership team?
What are other schools in Iowa doing to help implement ICC?
Christine--ICC will provide the content standards for academic areas, along with life-skill goals to prepare students to meet the demands of employers in this changing global economy.
ReplyDeleteWill music have standards established as other disciplines will?
How will the implementation of this change our delivery of gifted services?
I feel the ICC is a method by which all educators in Iowa are on the same page in our effort to initiate student learning. Iowa has always been a leader in the nation when it comes to education, and we want to continue to be on the leading edge.
ReplyDeleteDo we need to educate our parents more on this program so once again they may help us in educating their children?
Is technology going to take over in education, or can we still use some of the old tryed and true learning ways?