NJCCCS

While in college, I first learned about the CCCS. While there, all of my professors continualy mentioned the importance of them, especially when the topics of lesson plans came up.

I truly understood the importance of the NJCCCS when I had to re-write the K-5 Health and PE curriculum. It made the process much easier and more efficeint. Knowing what material to use and when is extremely important. The standards help with that and will allow teachers to keep the students on the right track.

Having standards will also provide teachers with a resource to keep them all on the same page. As long as teachers follow the standards, they will be able to rely on one another for help and ideas throughout the year.

1620 (TESTS) Throughout Education.

I never imagined taking 1,620 tests throughout the years of my education. That seems like a really big number and I can only really remember taking a few of them. Most of them I probubly never really cared about or had a big impact on my education. This video talks about different ways to test/assess students that don't follow the so called formal/ordinary tests most teachers assign. I remember the assessments that I didn't need to stress over to take part in, but still retain important information from it. I'm not saying that studying is a bad thing; I feel that if you let the students know they are going to be tested in a more hands on kind of way, they will get more out of the assessment. The hardest thing for a teacher is taking the time to be creative and come up with the different kinds of assessments to use. The difference afterwords will promote a great improvement in both the students experience and the teachers.

First day of class (computers in the curriculum)

Looking foward to another good class.

Tommy