Learn more about the Debate Over Common Core
This article is from the book “The Education Revolution” that begins a series of posts about the desperate need to replace the current educational process with a new educational process that’s responsive to the needs of the individual student, teachers, parents and administrators. Hint: The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) are not the answer. A rewarding personal life, career options and the ability to function independently and compete in a literate democratic society requires that each citizen become functionally literate.
An “Education Revolution” is required for the public school “educational process” that
begins with an Individual Education Learning Plan or (IELP). The IELP is an individual needs
assessment with an educational plan that uses traditional pedagogy, that is, the practice of
teaching, especially an academic subject or theoretical concept, and methodology which includes
lectures, class participation, seminars, demonstrations, recitation, memorization, field trips,
internships or combinations of these the methods. Further included are “The Arts”, educational
videos, educational games, computer technology and software to educate the whole student
academically, socially, behaviorally, culturally, nutritionally and address the student’s specific
learning issues, if any, as diagnostic perceptive teaching and learning tools. Then we hire
“Master Teachers” who choose the students they want to teach and trained to teach with merit or
incentive pay while teaching students in “Learning Levels” rather than in grade levels.
The goal is to teach students how to function independently in society that begins with a
guarantee that each student will graduate with at least learning to how to learn with the basic
skills sets to read, write and do arithmetic on or before the age of 16. Master Teachers include
those experts who get involved when the student needs supplemental or remedial education for
counseling, learning disorders, which I prefer to call “learning differently” issues, or behavior
The two primary teaching goals for school teachers in the elementary and secondary
school educational process is to teach skill sets and impart knowledge: First, by teaching students
how to learn how to learn with basic reading, writing and arithmetic skills by whatever means
necessary; and, second, by teaching the students how to study, research for specific knowledge
and information, then how to understand the learned knowledge and information, then teach
students how to apply that knowledge and information by thinking or processing the learned
subject matter with the skill sets necessary to make intelligent informed choices and function
independently in a democratic society.
Note: Students must not only learn how to retain the knowledge and information, but
demonstrate they understand what they have learned and how to apply what they have learned.
If you know how to read, write and do arithmetic you can learn to do anything to achieve your
personal and career goals. Education only takes place when a student learns not only how to
acquire knowledge, but the student understands the meaning of the knowledge learned and then
the student learns how to apply that knowledge to accomplish a goal.
For example, if a student wants to learn how to prepare a certain type of food, the student
must first research for a recipe from their family, friends, cook books or the internet, wherever,
that not only teaches the student the nutritional value of the food, cost per serving, per serving
calorie count, food measurement using math and the possible substitutes for ingredients for
health and nutritional value including the use of herbs and spices, but how to prepare the food
and, if necessary, cook the food in a variety of ways such as baked, broiled, grilled, fried,
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Next Article II: What percentage of the American culture is "Functionally Illiterate" which means they cannot read a restaurant menu or a newspaper or fill out a job application? 18%, 28%, 38%, 48%
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